John 2:13

And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, AND THE JEWS' PASSOVER (AS TO WHICH SEE THE NOTE AT ), WAS AT HAND. Here begins our Evangelist's distinct mention of the successive Passovers which occurred during our Lord's public ministry, and which are our only sure materials for determining the duration of it. See more on this subject at . AND JESUS WENT UP TO JERUSALEM,...

13._And the passover of the Jews was at hand; therefore Jesus went up to Jerusalem. _The Greek words καὶ ἀνέβη, may be literally rendered, and _he went up_; but the Evangelist has used the copulative and instead of _therefore_; for he means that Christ _went up _at that time, in order to celebrate _the passover _at Jerusalem. There were two reasons why he did so; for since the Son of God became subject to the Law on our account, he intended, by observing with exactness all the precepts of the Law, to present in his own person a pattern of entire subjection and obedience. Again, as he could do more good, when there was a multitude of people, he almost always availed himself of such an occasion. Whenever, therefore, we shall afterwards find it said that Christ came to Jerusalem at the feast, let the reader observe that he did so, first, that along with others he might observe the exercises...

12-22 The first public work in which we find Christ engaged, was driving from the temple the traders whom the covetous priests and rulers encouraged to make a market-place of its courts. Those now make God's house a house of merchandise, whose minds are filled with cares about worldly business when attending religious exercises, or who perform Divine offices for love of gain. Christ, having thus cleansed the temple, gave a sign to those who demanded it, to prove his authority for so doing. He foretells his death by the Jews' malice, Destroy ye this temple; I will permit you to destroy it. He foretells his resurrection by his own power; In three days I will raise it up. Christ took again his own life. Men mistake by understanding that according to the letter, which the Scripture speaks by way of figure. When Jesus was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered he has said this. It help...

Verse John 2:13. _AND THE JEWS' PASSOVER WAS AT HAND_] This was the reason why he stayed but a _few days_ at Capernaum, John 2:12, as he wished to be present at the celebration of this feast at Jerusalem. This was the _first_ passover after Christ's baptism. The _second_ is mentioned, Luke 6:1. The _third_, John 6:4. And the _fourth_, which was that at which he was crucified, John 11:55. From which it appears, 1. That our blessed Lord continued his public ministry about _three years and a half_, according to the prophecy of Daniel,

THE JEWS’ PASSOVER - The feast among the Jews called the Passover. See the notes at Matthew 26:2. AND JESUS WENT UP TO JERUSALEM - Every male among the Jews was required to appear at this feast. Jesus, in obedience to the law, went up to observe it. This is the first Passover on which he attended after he entered on the work of the ministry. It is commonly supposed that he observed three others one recorded Luke 6:1; another John 6:4, and the last one on the night before he was crucified, John 11:55. As his baptism when he entered on his ministry had taken place some time before this - p

EXPOSITION VERSES 2:1-3:4 _The testimony of signs to the glory of the Word made flesh._ JOHN 2:1 (1) _The first sign, the beginning of signs, Mastery over the old creation. Sign of love and power. _The description of the preceding narrative, given in John 2:11, is the true key to it. It is impressive on several accounts. Christ had not yet given any "sign" of the invisible and eternal glory which the evangelist in his prologue had claimed for him. He had not in his own person "manifested" the unique majesty of his will, nor revealed the direction in which the power he wielded would most freely move. John, by this statement, (1) puts down a positive disclaimer of the whole cycle of portents which, whe

AND THE JEWS' PASSOVER WAS AT HAND,.... That feast which was kept on the fourteenth day of Nisan, in commemoration of the Lord's passing over, and by the houses of the Israelites, when he slew the firstborn in Egypt: and it is called the Jews' passover, because they only were obliged to keep it: nor was it obligatory upon the Gentiles; and, besides, was now abolished when John wrote this Gospel, though still retained by the Jews. And moreover, John was now among the Gentiles, and for whose sake he penned this Gospel; and therefore so distinguishes this feast, which was typical of the Christian passover, or of Christ our passover that is sacrificed for us. This was the first "passover" after Christ's baptism, which is generally thought to have been about half a year before; though so much time cannot be made out from the scriptural account; for from his baptism, to his return out of the w...

CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2:1-22 _ 1. The Marriage in Cana. (John 2:1 .)_ 2. The Temple Cleansed. (John 2:12 .) The second chapter gives the record of the first miracle reported in this Gospel. He manifested His omniscience in the previous chapter and here, in turning water into wine, He reveals Himself as the omnipotent Creator. What harmony there is between the opening of the first two Chapter s of the Gospel of John. The first chapter speaks of Him as the Creator of all things and in the second chapter He manifests the power of the Creator. He needed no wine, no grapes, no mellowing process, to furnish the best wine. He but commanded and it was so. This is omnipotence. In John 2:17 of the previous chapter there is a

THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. The Passover of the Jews as an author writing for Christians naturally describes it without special significance or bias, was near. Jesus, following the custom of the religious party in His nation, goes up with His disciples (John 2:17; John 2:22) to keep the feast (_cf._ Exodus 23:15). He finds the Temple desecrated by an illicit traffic in animals for the sacrifices, and sacred shekels of the heavy Phœ nician standard (pp. 116f.), in which alone the Temple tax could be paid. The expulsion is described with a fullness and correctness of detail (notice especially the _driving out_ of the cattle and (?) their attendants, the _overturning_ of the moneychangers-' tables, and the _telling_ the

THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. The Gospels are silent concerning any visit of Jesus after his twelfth year until the first Passover after his ministry began. The Lord, after his baptism, the temptation, and the witness of John, had begun his work rather quietly in Galilee, but when the Passover season came he joined the vast crowds who were seeking the city of David, and repaired to the national capital where popular expectation held that the Messiah would reveal himself. The following events have. fuller significance when it is borne in mind that it is the Lord's first visit to the temple after his work began. The cleansing is an assertion of his Lordship, and authority over the temple,. declaration to the religious rulers that the Holy One of Israel had come. AND THE JEWS' PASSOVER WAS AT HAND. Observe that John writes as one far from Judea and among Gentiles. He does not say _the,_ bu...