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John 10:33
The Jews answered Him, saying, For a good work we stone Thee not, but for blasphemy, and because that Thou, being a man, makest Thyself God.
The Jews answered Him, saying, For a good work we stone Thee not, but for blasphemy, and because that Thou, being a man, makest Thyself God.
Verse 33. _BUT FOR BLASPHEMY_] I have elsewhere shown that the original word, βλασφημειν, when applied to men, signifies _to speak_ _injuriously_ of their persons, character, connections, c. but when...
FOR BLASPHEMY - See the notes at Matthew 9:3. MAKEST THYSELF GOD - See the notes at John 5:18. This shows how they understood what he had said. MAKEST THYSELF - Dost claim to be God, or thy language...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Shepherd of the Sheep. (John 10:1 .)_ 2. The Good Shepherd, His Sheep and His Work. (John 10:6 .) 3. At the Feast of Dedication; the Repeated Testimony. (John 10:22 .) 4. Accuse...
THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION._ Mg.,_ At that time suggests a closer connexion with what precedes than the old reading And. But in any case the notes of time are not precise. The Feast of the Dedication...
FOR BLASPHEMY... THOU MAKEST THYSELF GOD. They reply that they would stone him for blasphemy in that he made himself divine. This charge was often made against him. When he said, "Thy sins be forgiven...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
The Jews again lifted up stones to stone him. Jesus said to them: "I have showed you many lovely deeds, which came from my Father. For which of these deeds are you trying to stone me?" The Jews answer...
BLASPHEMY. See Leviticus 24:16. GOD. Jehovah. See App-98....
_For a good work_ The preposition is changed in the Greek; CONCERNING _a good work_. -That is not the subject-matter of our charge?" _and because_ -And" is explanatory, shewing wherein the blasphemy...
The Discourse at the Feast of the Dedication Again we seem to have a gap in the narrative. Between John 10:21 (but see below) there is an interval of about two months; for the Feast of Tabernacles wo...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
ΠΕΡῚ Κ. ἜΡ. CONCERNING _a good work_: ‘That is not the subject-matter of our charge.’ Comp. John 8:46; John 16:8; 1 John 2:2. ΚΑῚ ὋΤΙ. Καί is epexegetic, explaining wherein the blasphemy consisted: it...
THE DISCOURSE AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION Again we seem to have a gap in the narrative. Between John 10:21-22 (but see below) there is an interval of about two months; for the Feast of Tabernacles...
Ver 31. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him, 32. Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me?" 33. The Jews answered hi...
_JESUS WAS REJECTED BY THE JEWS -- JOHN 10:22-38:_ That winter, Jesus was in Jerusalem for the feast of the dedication. In Solomon's Porch the people gathered all around Him. They asked Jesus to tell...
ΆΠΕΚΡΊΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΑΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ, _см._ John 10:25. ΠΕΡΊ (G4012) с _gen._, используется с гл. обвинения, запрета, осуждения для выражения причины: за, из-за (BAGD). ών _praes. act....
THEN THE JEWS TOOK UP STONES— As a full proof in what sense our Lord's hearers understood him, we find that they took up stones, and were going to kill him, in obedience, as they supposed, to the law,...
EVIDENCE FOR DEITY _Text 10:32-42_ 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from the Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33 The Jews answered him, For a good work we...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 10:22-42 It is by no means a simple task either to analyze or to summarize the second half of John 10. The twenty-second verse clearly begins a new section of th...
The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. THE JEWS ANSWERED HIM, SAYING, FOR A GOOD WORK WE STONE...
3 John the baptist was the door keeper who opened the door to the true Shepherd. Many another has come claiming to be Israel's shepherd, but they did not come in God's appointed way. 4 The Eastern sh...
THE GOOD SHEPHERD. THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION 1-18. Allegories of the Fold and of the Good Shepherd. This chapter continues Christ's discourse to His Pharisaic disciples begun at John 9:39. His words...
JESUS AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION. As there is no statement that Jesus went up to Jerusalem, it is fair to infer that Jesus spent the two months between the Feast of Tabernacles and that of the Ded...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS TELLS A STORY ABOUT A *SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP 10:1-10 V1 Jesus said, ‘I tell you the truth. Only thieves climb...
THE JEWS ANSWERED HIM. — Comp for the thoughts of this verse Notes on John 10:30 and on John 5:18. FOR A GOOD WORK... BUT FOR BLASPHEMY. — The word rendered “for” is not the causal “on account of,” wh...
CHAPTER 22 JESUS, SON OF GOD. “And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. The Jews therefore came round about Him, and...
_Sayings of Jesus at the Feast of Dedication_....
The irony is as much in the situation as in the words. The answer is honest enough, blind as it is: Περὶ … Θεόν. “For a praiseworthy work we do not stone Thee, but for blasphemy, and because Thou bein...
THE WORKS OF THE FATHER John 10:31-42 In the strongest terms known to the Jews, our Lord insisted on His oneness with God; and they understood His claims, threatening Him with the penalty of blasphem...
Continuing, He gave a more detailed picture of that coming order. There was to be a fold, with a door. There was to be a flock, with a shepherd. Entrance to the fold would be by the door. The flock wo...
THE ASSAULT John 10:30-39. “ _I and My Father are one_.” There is but one God, but three persons _i.e._, three characters manifested by the Deity to the world. I am a preacher, a teacher, and a book e...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
THIRD SECTION: 10:22-42. THE SECOND DISCOURSE. In chap. John 7:19-24, we have seen Jesus return, in a discourse pronounced at the feast of Tabernacles, to the fact of the healing of the impotent man ...
“ _Jesus answered them: I have shown you many good works by the power of my Father; for which of these works do you stone me?_ 33. _The Jews answered him it is not for a good work that we stone thee,...
III. SECOND ADDRESS: JOHN 10:32-39. The reply of Jesus treats of two subjects: 1. That of the _blasphemy_ which is imputed to Him (John 10:32-36); 2. That of His _relation_ to God which is contested ...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 33-42. 1. There can be no doubt that the Jews understood Jesus as claiming to be God. John 10:33 clearly proves this. The words of the following verses ar...
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. (32) Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father: for which of those works do ye stone me? (33) The Jews answered him, saying...
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...
33._We stone thee not for a good work. _Though wicked men carry on open war with God, yet they never wish to sin without some plausible pretense. The consequence is, that when they rage against the So...
In chapter 10 He contrasts Himself with all those who pretended, or had pretended, to be shepherds of Israel. He develops these three points; He comes in by the door; He is the door; and He is the She...
THE JEWS ANSWERED HIM, SAYING,.... As follows; FOR A GOOD WORK WE STONE THEE NOT: they could not deny, that he had done many good works; this was too barefaced to be contradicted; yet they cared not...
The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. Ver. 33. _But for blasphemy_] These were holy persecutors,...
_Jesus answered, Many good works have I showed you from my Father_ That is, in confirmation of my mission from my Father I have wrought many miracles, all of a beneficent kind, and most becoming the p...
MAKEST THYSELF GOD; claimest to be divine, equal with the Father....
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE SHEPHERD (vs.1-18) Now the Lord speaks in parabolic form, again in verse 1 doubly pressing the truth of His words. One climbing the fence of the sheepfold (rather then entering...
31-38 Christ's works of power and mercy proclaim him to be over all, God blessed for evermore, that all may know and believe He is in the Father, and the Father in Him. Whom the Father sends, he sanc...
THE JEWS ANSWERED HIM, These are not the things we are incensed against thee for; we grant that thou hast done many good works amongst us; these we gratefully acknowledge. But this is that which we ar...
Dialogue of Justin And Trypho answered, "We shall remember this your exposition, if you strengthen [your solution of] this difficulty by other arguments: but now resume the discourse, and show us tha...
John 10:33 Jews G2453 answered G611 (G5662) Him G846 saying G3004 (G5723) For G4012 good G2570 work...
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION (JOHN 10:22)....
‘The Judaisers answered him, “We are not stoning you for any good work, but for blasphemy, and because you, being a mere man, claim to be God”.' Modern men here argue about the Aramaic and the Greek i...
The contest with the Jews is continued. The section strikingly illustrates the plan of the gospel (1) by taking up again that claim of Jesus to be the Son of God which had, more than anything else, pr...
John 10:33. THE JEWS ANSWERED HIM, FOR A GOOD WORK WE STONE THEE NOT; BUT FOR BLASPHEMY; AND BECAUSE THAT THOU, BEING A MAN, MAKEST THYSELF GOD. These words show conclusively how the saying of John 10...
FOR A GOOD WORK WE STONE THEE NOT (περ καλου εργου ου λιθαζομεν). "Concerning a good deed we are not stoning thee." Flat denial that the healing of the blind man on the Sabbath had led them to this...
CONTENTS: Discourse on the Good Shepherd. Jesus' deity asserted. CHARACTERS: Jesus, God. CONCLUSION: God, our great owner, the sheep of whose pasture we are by creation, has constituted His Son, Jes...
John 10:1. _He that entereth not by the door is a thief and a robber._ After the scribes had formed a plot against the life of the good shepherd, he told them that they were not the children of Abraha...
BUT BECAUSE OF THE WAY. Because he said: "The Father and I are one." Jesus declared that his good works proved his calm; they declared he was only a man, nothing more....
_Then came the Jews round about Him_ THE SCENE AND CIRCUMSTANCES Here in this bright colonnade, decked for the feast with glittering trophies, Jesus was walking up and down, quietly, and apparently w...
_Then the Jews took up stones again_ RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE persecutes a man on account of I. HIS RELIGIOUS OPINIONS. The Jews took up stones merely because Christ had proclaimed a doctrine which wa...
VER. 32. _Jesus answered_, &c. He replied not to the words, for none had been spoken, but to the crafty intention of the Jews. He answered, _i.e._, He asked them for what cause do ye wish to stone Me?...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 10:22. _Our Lord’s utterances at the feast of dedication on His oneness with the Father, etc._—This feast (τὰ ἐγκαίνια—the Encænia) was post-exilic in its origin....
EXPOSITION JOHN 10:1 5. _Christ the Shepherd of the flock of God_._ _The discourse which now follows was the Lord's parabolic or allegoric reply to the conduct of the Pharisaic malignants. These men...
So chapter 10, it would seem to be as just a continuation of this whole movement here of the blind man receiving his sight, being put out by the organized religious system, being taken in by Jesus Chr...
1 Kings 21:10; John 10:30; John 5:18; Leviticus 24:14; Philippians 2:6
Saying. Omit....