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John 3:20
For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Verse John 3:20. _FOR EVERY ONE THAT DOETH EVIL HATETH THE LIGHT_] He who doth vile or abominable things: alluding to the subject mentioned in the preceding verse. The word φαυλος, _evil_ or _vile_,...
THAT DOETH EVIL - Every wicked person. HATETH THE LIGHT - This is true of all wicked men. They choose to practice their deeds of wickedness in darkness. They are afraid of the light, because they cou...
II. ETERNAL LIFE IMPARTED: What it is and What it Includes Chapter 2:23-17 The second part of this Gospel contains the blessed teachings the Son of God gave concerning eternal life, how it is impart...
THE CONVERSATION WITH NICODEMUS. Nicodemus is an example of those to whom the Lord could not trust Himself. The story shows how He tried to bring those whom His teaching had impressed to a truer conce...
THIS IS THE CONDEMNATION. The ground of condemnation. The light had come into the world, Christ, the true Light, but men chose to walk in darkness because they loved it rather than light. The evil do...
For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. He who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe already stands con...
THE MAN WHO CAME BY NIGHT (John 3:1-6)...
DOETH. practises, or (habitually) does. Greek. _prasso_ EVIL. Greek. phaulos. worthless, base. Occurs only here; John 5:29; Titus 2:8; James 3:16, in Rec. Text, but in...
_doeth evil_ The Greek word for -doeth" is not the same as that in the next verse; but it is not quite certain that any distinction of meaning is intended, although John 5:29 inclines one to think so....
John 3:1-21. The discourse with Nicodemus This is the first of the eleven discourses of our Lord which form the main portion, and are among the great characteristics, of this Gospel. They have been u...
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...
It is much disputed whether what follows is a continuation of Christ's discourse, or the comment of the Evangelist upon it. The fact that terms characteristic of S. John's theology are put into the mo...
ΦΑΥ͂ΛΑ. Whereas πονηρός (John 3:19) expresses the _malignity_ of evil, its power to cause suffering (πόνος), φαῦλος (perhaps akin to _paulus_) expresses the _worthlessness_ of it. The one is positive,...
16–21. It is much disputed whether what follows is a continuation of Christ’s discourse, or S. John’s comment upon it. That expressions characteristic of S. John’s diction appear (μονογενής, πιστεύειν...
John 3:1-21. THE DISCOURSE WITH NICODEMUS This is the first of the discourses of our Lord which form the main portion, and are among the great characteristics, of this Gospel. They have been used as a...
VER 19. AND THIS IS THE CONDEMNATION, THAT LIGHT IS COME INTO THE WORLD, AND MEN LOVED DARKNESS RATHER THAN LIGHT, BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL. 20. FOR EVERY ONE THAT DOES EVIL HATES THE LIGHT, NEIT...
_JESUS AFFIRMS HIS DEITY -- JOHN 3:9-21:_ Nicodemus did not yet understand that if it is true that Jesus is God in the flesh that man's obligation was to obey him. Jesus proved His Divinity by saying,...
ΦΑΎΛΑ (G5337) _n. асс. pl._ плохой, глупый, бесполезный, ΠΡΆΣΣΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΠΡΆΣΣΩ (G4238) делать. _Praes._ указывает на одновременность действий. Его дурные дела показывают, что он отвер...
DISCOURSE: 1612 MEN’S HATRED OF THE LIGHT John 3:19. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every...
MORE HEAVENLY MYSTERIES _Text 3:16-21_ 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God sent...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 3:9-21 We begin with an Analysis of the passage which is before us:— "Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?" (John 3:9). How this revea...
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. FOR EVERYONE THAT DOETH EVIL HATETH THE LIGHT, NEITHER COMETH TO THE LIGHT, LEST HIS...
1 We have found an unholy temple, an unspiritual priesthood, and now we are introduced to an ignorant teacher! Intense application to a single text book for a whole life had not taught him the element...
3:20 are; (d-26) _ Elenko_ . to show the true character of anything, so as to convict, and hence reprove by showing a man's fault. It is used in chs. 8.46, 'convinces;' 16.8, 'bring demonstration;' Ep...
THE NEW BIRTH. JOHN'S TESTIMONY TO JESUS 1-15. Conversation with Nicodemus. The ministry at Jerusalem, though disappointing, was not fruitless. Christ's miracles and teaching had made an impression, n...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 3 JESUS TEACHES NICODEMUS 3:1-21 V1-2 A *Jewish leader called Nicodemus came to speak to Jesus. Nicodemus was a *Pharis...
FOR EVERY ONE THAT DOETH EVIL HATETH THE LIGHT. — In this and the next verse we have the explanation of the choice of the darkness and rejection of the light. The fact itself is first stated more stro...
CHAPTER 8 THE BRAZEN SERPENT. “Nicodemus answered and said unto Him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things? Ver...
The principle is explained in this verse. Underlying the action of men towards Christ during His historical manifestation was a general law: a law which operates wherever men are similarly invited to...
LOVE'S GREAT GIFT: RECEIVED OR REJECTED John 3:9-21 Though physically on earth, our Lord was spiritually in touch with the heavenly realities. He was living among them and bore witness to them. Notic...
Nicodemus would seem to have been one of the finest products of Judaism. He was thoroughly sincere. Moreover, he was determined to investigate for himself, and so came to Jesus by night, not because h...
CHAPTER 8 REGENERATION THE GREAT SINE QUA NON John 3:1-21. _“There was a man of the Pharisees, whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews; the same came to Him by night, and said, Master, we know...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. XIV. The passage from John 3:16 to John 3:21 is supposed by Westcott, and by Milligan and Moulton, among the most recent writers on this Gospel, as well as by...
VER. 20. “ _For, every one who practiseth evil hateth the light and doth not come to the light_, _that his works may not be condemned._ ” Night was reigning at the moment when Jesus was speaking thus....
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? (10) Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? (11) Verily, verily, I say unto thee, W...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
20._For whosoever doeth what is evil. _The meaning is, that _the light _is hateful to them for no other reason than because they are wicked and desire to conceal their sins, as far as lies in their po...
But there was a man (chapter 3) and that a Pharisee who was not satisfied with this inoperative conviction. His conscience was reached. Seeing Jesus, and hearing His testimony, had produced a sense of...
FOR EVERY ONE THAT DOTH EVIL, HATETH THE LIGHT,.... Every man, the series of whose life and conversation is evil, hates Christ and his Gospel, cause they make manifest his evil deeds, convict him of t...
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Ver. 20. _For every one that doeth evil_] As the Ethiopians are said to curse the sun f...
_For every one that doeth evil_ That is conscious to himself that he lives in known sin, and is inclined to continue to do so; _hateth the light_ Which would detect and expose his evil practices, and...
REPROVED; shown to be evil, and as such condemned. The reason why men do not believe what Christ has taught is, that they love error, they do evil, and his truth on this account condemns them....
NICODEMUS, AND NEW BIRTH (vs.1-21) Among the many who believed because of the miracles, there was however one individual who was more seriously affected. Nicodemus comes to the Lord by night, evident...
REPROVED: Or, discovered...
1-8 Nicodemus was afraid, or ashamed to be seen with Christ, therefore came in the night. When religion is out of fashion, there are many Nicodemites. But though he came by night, Jesus bid him welco...
He that makes a trade of sin, and doth evil presumptuously, loving and delighting in it, doth not love the light, nor, if he can avoid it, will come near it; for the light is that which makes things v...
Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul and John says, "By his own heart is each man condemned; "[103]...
John 3:20 For G1063 everyone G3956 practicing G4238 (G5723) evil G5337 hates G3404 (G5719) light G5457 not...
‘For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved'. While we are behaving like ‘nice Christians' and doing good, men will praise us and sa...
John 3:20. FOR EVERY ONE THAT COMMITTETH EVIL HATETH THE LIGHT, AND HE COMETH NOT TO THE LIGHT LEST HIS WORKS SHOULD BE CONVICTED. This verse explains the last, and refers the action there described t...
It is of much importance to keep the closing verses of chap. 2 in close connection with the opening verses of chap. 3 (see the commentary on John 3:1). Rejected by the theocracy of Israel Jesus turns...
THAT DOETH ILL (ο φαυλα πρασσων). The word φαυλος means first worthless and then wicked (usually so in N.T.) and both senses occur in the papyri. In John 5:29 see contrast between αγαθα ποιεω (doin...
John 3:20 Notice: I. That the Jews, to whom our text was originally applied, hated the light, and would not come to it because their deeds were evil. Their national rejection of our Lord was the resu...
Let us once more read together part of this blessed soul-saving chapter. I suppose that more souls have been saved through the reading of this chapter than through almost any other portion of Holy Wri...
We can scarcely find a chapter in which the gospel lies so compact and so plainly stated. John 3:1. _There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:_ Christ's door is open at...
This is a very wonderful chapter, because, while it teaches the doctrine of regeneration, and the necessity of a great moral and spiritual change, it yet also reveals the doctrine of salvation by fait...
John 3:13. _And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that come down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven._ We are in the stairway now between heaven and earth; Christ has came dow...
CONTENTS: Nicodemus and the new birth. The last testimony of John the Baptist. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Nicodemus, John the Baptist, Moses, John's disciples. CONCLUSION: Since the natural...
John 3:1. _Nicodemus, a ruler of the jews._ This rabbi is named by John as defending our Saviour in the council, and as attending the crucifixion. A gospel of the passion and the resurrection of Chris...
THIS IS HOW THE JUDGMENT WORKS. God's judgment is not despotic or senseless. Men _believe_ on the basis of their hidden motives and goals. Usually it is not _evidence,_ but honesty and love for truth...
_For every one that doeth evil hateth the light … but he that doeth truth cometh to the light_ THE REPELLING AND ATTRACTIVE INFLUENCE OF LIGHT These words may have taken their form from the fact tha...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 3:19 LOVED THE DARKNESS. See John 1:5, John 1:10....
1-36 CHAPTER 3 _There was a man_, &c. Nicodemus means in Greek _the conqueror of the people._ Such was this man; who, overcoming the fear of the people, the Pharisees, and the priests, believed in Ch...
_For every one that doeth evil_, Greek, _φαυ̃λα_, _depraved and perverse things,_ &c. "Every one who does wickedly," says S. Cyril, "refuses the illumination of the light, not because he is ashamed of...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 3:16. These verses are confidently held by many to contain the reflections of the Evangelist, and not to be a continuation of our Lord’s discourse. But (1) there...
EXPOSITION This is the first of the eleven discourses recorded by this evangelist, and for the most part addressed to the cultivated, hierarcical party in Jerusalem, who questioned him in an unfriend...
Have we got a message for you tonight from the Word of God! John chapter 3 and 4, oh my, how rich! How blessed! There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews (John 3:1). We k...
1 Kings 22:8; Amos 5:10; Amos 5:11; Ephesians 5:12; Ephesians 5:13;...
Doeth [π ρ α σ σ ω ν]. The present participle, indicating habit and general tendency. Evil [φ α υ λ α]. Rev., ill. A different word from that in the previous verse. Originally, light, paltry, trivial...
In these words our Saviour acquaints us with the different nature of sin and holiness. It is the nature of sin, and the property of sinners, to hate the light, because it discovers the evil and sinful...