What does John 12:38 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
Verse 38. _THAT THE SAYING OF ESAIAS_] Or, _Thus the word of Isaiah_ _was fulfilled_. So I think ινα (commonly rendered _that_) should be translated. For it certainly does not mean the _end_ the Phari...
THE SAYING - The word of Isaiah, or that which Isaiah predicted. This occurs in Isaiah 53:1. MIGHT BE FULFILLED - That the same effect should occur which occurred in the time of Isaiah. This does not...
CHAPTER 12 1. The Feast at Bethany. (John 12:1 .) 2. The Entrance into Jerusalem. (John 12:9 .) 3. The Inquiring Greeks and His Answer. (John 12:20 .) 4. His Final Words. (John 12:34 .) From the c...
FAILURE IN JUDÆ A. The many signs have failed to convince. The author explains this by the prediction in Isaiah 53:1, the arm of the Lord being interpreted of Messiah. And the ultimate cause is also d...
THAT THE SAYING OF ESAIAS THE PROPHET. The saying here recorded is found in Isaiah 53:1. John means to say that God had by Isaiah predicted the very state of things in Israel and the Jews so acted th...
LOVE'S EXTRAVAGANCE (John 12:1-8)...
SAYING. Greek. _logos._ See note on Mark 9:32. This is quoted from Isaiah 53:1. See note there. ESAIAS. Greek form of Isaiah. FULFILLED. Greek _pleroo =_ filled full or accomplished. See John 13:18;...
The Judgment of the Evangelist S. John here sums up the results of the ministry which has just come to a close. Their comparative poverty is such that he can explain it in no other way than as an ill...
THE JUDGMENT OF THE EVANGELIST S. John here sums up the results of the ministry which has just come to a close. Their comparative poverty is such that he can explain it in no other way than as an ill...
VER 37. BUT THOUGH HE HAD DONE SO MANY MIRACLES BEFORE THEM, YET THEY BELIEVED NOT ON HIM: 38. THAT THE SAYING OF ISAIAH THE PROPHET MIGHT BE FULFILLED, WHICH HE SPOKE, LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPO...
_SOME GREEKS WANTED TO SEE JESUS -- JOHN 12:20-43:_ Some Greeks had gone to Jerusalem to worship during Passover. They said to Philip, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Philip told Andrew and together they t...
ΠΛΗΡΩΘΉ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ (G4137) выполнять. _Conj._ с ΊΝ (G2443) выражает цель, ΈΠΊΣΤΕΥΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩ, _см._ John 12:36. ΆΚΟ (G189) _dat. sing._ сообщение. ΒΡΑΧΊΩΝ (G10...
THAT THE SAYING OF ESAIAS THE PROPHET, &C.— So _that the saying—was fulfilled,_ &c. Heylin, Jeffryes, &c. See the note on Isaiah 53:1. The phrase _Hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?_ is thought b...
A PERPETUAL PROPHECY _Text 12:37-43_ 37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on him: 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake,...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 12:37-50 The following is an Analysis of the closing section of John 12:— "These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them" (John 12:36)...
That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? THAT THE SAYING OF ESAIAS THE PROP...
37 What better proof could be found that they were walking in darkness than their rejection of the Man of Sorrows? The prophets plainly foretold their action and yet they are too much in the dark to s...
12:38 fulfilled, (c-13) See Isaiah 53:1 ....
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. CLOSE OF THE PUBLIC MINISTRY 1-11. Supper at Bethany (see on Matthew 26:6 and Mark 14:3, which record the same incident). The event in Luke 7:36. is different. The supper was at...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 12 MARY POURS EXPENSIVE *PERFUME OVER JESUS’ FEET 12:1-11 V1 Six (6) days before the *Passover, Jesus returned to Bethan...
THAT THE SAYING OF ESAIAS THE PROPHET MIGHT BE FULFILLED. — This is the first instance in this Gospel of a phrase familiar to us already from its frequent occurrence in St. Matthew. We shall find it a...
V. _ RESULTS OF CHRIST'S MANIFESTATION._ "But though He had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on Him: that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord,...
In the verses which follow, John 12:37-43, _John accounts for the unbelief of the Jews_. This fact that the very people who had been appointed to accept the Messiah had rejected Jesus needed explanati...
BELIEF MAY BECOME IMPOSSIBLE John 12:30-41 The question of the Greeks led our Lord's thoughts to His death. He saw, too, the baptism of suffering through which His followers must pass. From all this...
The shadows of the Passion were now falling across the path of the Christ. In what happened at the supper we have a vivid contrast. Mary and Judas arrest our attention. She, discovering the sorrows of...
That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the (h) arm of the Lord been revealed? (h) The arm of the Lord is the go...
JUDICIAL BLINDNESS OF THE JEWS John 12:37-41. _“He, having performed so many miracles in their presence, they did not believe on Him, in order that the word of Isaiah the prophet may be fulfilled, wh...
“ _Now, although he had done so many miracles in their presence, they did not believe on him_, 38 _that the word which Isaiah the prophet had spoken might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed our prea...
The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth forever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? (35) Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
38._That the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled. _John does not mean that the prediction laid a necessity on the Jews; for Isaiah (Isaiah 53:1; Romans 10:16) uttered nothing but what the...
His place (chapter 12) now is with the remnant, where His heart found rest the house of Bethany. We have, in this family, a sample of the true remnant of Israel, three different cases with regard to t...
THAT THE SAYING OF ESAIAS THE PROPHET MIGHT BE FULFILLED,.... For though this was not the end of these men in disbelieving Christ, that the words of Isaiah might be fulfilled, yet hereby they were eve...
That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? Ver. 38. _That the saying of the prop...
_Though he had done so many miracles before them_ So that they could not but see them; _yet they believed not on him_ That is, in general they did not; being hardened in their infidelity. _That the sa...
THE SAYING OF ESAIAS; Isaiah 53:1, fulfilled in their rejection of Christ....
The fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy:...
A SUPPER FOR HIM AT BETHANY (vs.1-8) Six days before the Passover He returned to the area of Jerusalem, coming by way of Jericho, as Luke shows us (Luke 19:1). These days He spent in ministering mai...
37-43 Observe the method of conversion implied here. Sinners are brought to see the reality of Divine things, and to have some knowledge of them. To be converted, and truly turned from sin to Christ,...
OLBGrk; So as that which Isaiah prophesied, ISAIAH 53:1, appeared to be fulfilled in them; for the term ina, which we translate THAT, doth not in Scripture always denote the final cause, with respect...
John 12:38 that G2443 word G3056 Isaiah G2268 prophet G4396 fulfilled G4137 (G5686) which G3739 spoke G2036 (G5627) Lord G2962 who G5101 believed G4100 (G5656) our G2257 report G189 And G2532 whom G51...
‘Though he had done so many signs before them still they did not believe in him. This was in order that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled, “Lord, who has believed our report, an...
The public ministry of Jesus has been brought to a close, and the moment has been marked by words the melancholy pathos of which can hardly be mistaken, ‘Having gone away, He was hidden from then' (Jo...
THAT MIGHT BE FULFILLED (ινα πληρωθη). It is usually assumed that ινα here with the first aorist passive subjunctive of πληροω has its full telic force. That is probable as God's design, but it is b...
John 12:1. _Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead._ The days Christ was to spend upon the earth were getting to...
CONTENTS: The supper at Bethany. The triumphal entry. Jesus' answer to Greeks. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Lazarus, Mary, Martha, disciples, Judas, Philip, Andrew, Isaiah, Pharisees. CONCLUSION: The most ple...
John 12:1. _Six days before the passover._ The Hebrew sabbath was kept from sunset to sunset. The worship of the day being closed, the jews indulged in a good supper after the light food of the day. T...
WHAT THE PROPHET ISAIAH HAD SAID. God's law is that those who refuse to see will not be allowed to see (compare 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12)....
_But though He had done so many miracles … yet they believed not on Him_ OUR LORD’S MINISTRY I. ITS DETAILS. 1. The doctrines He taught (John 12:44). These words are an abridged statement of our Lo...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:20 These verses conclude the first major part of John’s Gospel, which narrates Jesus’ mission to the Jews. The arrival of some Greeks signals to Jesus that the mission exclusively...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 12:37. The Evangelist’s statement of the causes of Jewish unbelief, and of the timidity of many who believed, which prevented them confessing Christ. John 12:37...
EXPOSITION The twelfth chapter neither belongs intrinsically to that which precedes nor to that which follows. It is a paragraph of high significance, as bearing on the construction of the Gospel. It...
Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead. They made him a supper; and Martha served [typical of Martha]: but Laz...
1 Corinthians 1:24; 2 Chronicles 32:20; 2 Corinthians 3:14; 2 Corinthians 4:3; Acts 13:27; Acts 8:28; Ephesians 1:17; Galatians 1:16; Isaiah 40:10;...
The arm of the Lord — The power of God manifested by Christ, in his preaching, miracles, and work of redemption. Isaiah 53:1....