John 2:22

When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. WHEN THEREFORE HE WAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, HIS DISCIPLES REMEMBERED THAT HE HAD SAID THIS UNTO THEM; AND THEY BELIEVED THE SCRIPTURE - that is, with an intelligent apprehension of what its testimony on this subject meant, which until then was hid from them. AND THE WORD WHICH JESUS HAD SAID. They believed it before, as they did the Scripture; but their faith in both was another thing after they came to understand it by seeing it verified. Remarks: (1) On the question, whether this purification of the temple is one and the same action with that recorded in the first three Gospels (Matthew 21:12;...

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 2:22. _REMEMBERED THAT HE HAD SAID THIS UNTO THEM_] αυτοις, _to_ _them_, is wanting in AEHLMS, Matt. BV, upwards of _one hundred_ others; both the _Syriac; Persic, Arabic, Coptic, AEthiopic,_ _Armenian, Slavonic, Vulgate_, and _Itala_. _Griesbach_ has left it out of the text. _THEY BELIEVED THE SCRIPTURE_] The scripture which the evangelist immediately refers to may have been Psalms 16:10. Compare this with Acts 2:31, and with Acts 13:35. See also Psalms 2:7, and compare it with...

WHEN HE WAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD ... - This saying of our Saviour at that time seemed obscure and difficult. The disciples did not understand it, but they treasured it up in their memory, and the event showed what was its true meaning. Many prophecies are obscure when spoken which are perfectly plain when the event takes place. We learn from this, also, the importance of treasuring up the truths of the Bible now, though we may not perfectly understand them. Hereafter they may be plain to us. It is therefore important that “children,” should learn the truths of the sacred Scriptures. Treasured up in their memory, they may not be understood “now,” but hereafter they may be clear to them. Every one engaged in teaching a Sunday school, therefore, may be imparting instruction which may be understood, and may impart comfort, long after the teacher has gone to eternity. THEY BELIEVED - That is,...

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

WHEN THEREFORE HE WAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD,.... Which was three years after this: HIS DISCIPLES REMEMBERED THAT HE HAD SAID THIS UNTO THEM; either to the Jews, or to them the disciples; though the phrase "to them", is not in the Vulgate Latin, nor in any of the Oriental versions. The disciples themselves were very dull of understanding the doctrine of Christ's resurrection; and so they continued, notwithstanding he gave them afterwards very full hints of it, until that he was actually risen; and then they called to mind these words of his, with others that dropped from him upon the same subject: AND THEY BELIEVED THE SCRIPTURE; that spoke of his resurrection, Psalms 16:10, and on the third day, Hosea 6:2. AND THE WORD WHICH JESUS HAD SAID; conc

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

WHEN THEREFORE HE WAS RISEN FROM THE DEED HIS DISCIPLES REMEMBERED. They remembered and understood his words then; they did not now. Then "they believed the Scripture" which foretold his death and resurrection, though they had never understood it before....

THE NEW EXHILARATION (John 2:1-11)...