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John 5:45
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
Verse John 5:45. _DO NOT THINK THAT I WILL ACCUSE YOU_] You have accused me with a breach of the Sabbath, which accusation I have demonstrated to be false: I could, in return, accuse _you_, and subst...
DO NOT THINK THAT I WILL ACCUSE YOU - Do not suppose that I intend to follow your example. They had accused Jesus of breaking the law of God, John 5:16. He says that he will not imitate their example,...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Healing of the Impotent Man. (John 5:1 .)_ 2. The Opposition of the Jews. (John 5:10 .) 3. His Unity with the Father. (John 5:19 .) 4. The Present Hour. Believers Delivered from...
This summary suggests that Jesus-' opponents had accused Him of self-glorification. In answer He traces back their failure to accept His message to want of that love of God which their study of Script...
DO YOU THINK THAT. WILL ACCUSE YOU? Moses will be their accuser. They had failed to keep the spirit of the law, or to accept his testimony....
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
How can you believe when you are out for the glory that you get from each other, and when you do not search for the glory which comes from the only God? Do not think that it is I who will accuse you t...
MOSES. See note on John 1:17. IN. on. Greek. _eis._ App-104. YE TRUST. ye have set your hope....
_Do not appeal to Moses; his writings condemn you_. Thus the whole basis of their confidence is cut away. Moses on whom they trust as a defender is their accuser....
_Do not think_ As you might be disposed to do after hearing these reproaches. _that I will accuse you_ If this refers to the day of judgment (and the future tense seems to point to that), there are t...
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...
45–47. _Do not appeal to Moses: his writings condemn you_. Thus the whole basis of their confidence is out away. Moses on whom they trust as a defender is their accuser....
ΜῊ ΔΟΚΕΙ͂ΤΕ. ‘_Think not_, because I reproach you now, _that it is I who will accuse you_.’ If this refers to the day of judgment (and the future tense seems to point to that), there are two reasons w...
THE UNBELIEF OF THE JEWS...
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
Ver 41. I receive not honor from men. 42. But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. 43. I am come in my Father's name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, hi...
_A WITNESS TO JESUS -- JOHN 5:31-47:_ Jesus called the attention of the Jews to the fact that God the Father was His witness. John was a great witness but the things that the Father had given Him to d...
ΔΟΚΕΪ́ΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΔΟΚΈΩ (G1380) думать, полагать. _Praes. imper._ с ΜΉ (G3361) предполагает прекращение текущего действия, ΚΑΤΗΓΟΡΉΣΩ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΗΓΟΡΈΩ (G2723) обвинять, с...
DISCOURSE: 1634 UNBELIEF REBUKED John 5:45. _Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have...
DO NOT THINK, THAT I WILL ACCUSE YOU, &C.— _Do you think,_ &c.? Syriac. Our Lord told them in conclusion, that they were not to imagine that in rejecting _him,_ they sinned against no person but him,...
THE WITNESS OF THE SCRIPTURES _Text 5:39-47_ 39 Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; 40 and ye will not come...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 5:31-47 We begin with our usual Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true" (John 5:31). Every comm...
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. DO NOT THINK THAT I WILL ACCUSE YOU TO THE FATHER: - q. d., 'My errand here is not...
31 The usual rendering, "If I bear witness of Myself My witness is not true", _ is not true_! The Lord Himself insisted, on another occasion, that His testimony concerning Himself _ was _ true. "And i...
BETHESDA. CHRIST AND THE SABBATH 1-47. A miracle at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath Day, and a controversy arising therefrom. This miracle may be regarded as a parable illustrating the deadly effe...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS CURES A SICK MAN 5:1-15 V1 After this, Jesus went to *Jerusalem for another *Jewish *festival. V2 There was a p...
DO NOT THINK THAT I WILL ACCUSE YOU TO THE FATHER. — His words were words of direct accusation, which must have cut to the very quick. He had come from the Father, and it might have seemed to follow f...
CHAPTER 13 JESUS LIFE-GIVER AND JUDGE. “The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, because He did these things o...
μὴ δοκεῖτε … These words bear in them the mark of truth. They spring from Jesus' own consciousness of His intimacy with the Father. To suppose that the Jews feared He would accuse them, is to suppose...
WILLFUL REJECTION OF TRUTH CONDEMNED John 5:39-47 Our Lord was accused by the Jews of Sabbath breaking. There were many grounds on which He might have claimed exoneration, but He forbore to use them....
It was at this time that the conflict between Christ and His enemies, which culminated in His Cross began. A miracle wrought on the Sabbath gave rise to this first outbreak. Throughout this chapter we...
(s) Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is [one] that accuseth you, [even] Moses, in whom ye trust. (s) This denial does not set aside that which is said here, but corrects it, a...
CHAPTER 13 THE POOL OF BETHESDA John 5:1-47. _“After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.”_ You always find the phraseology in the Bible, _“Go up to Jerusalem.”...
FIRST SECTION: 5:1-47. FIRST OUTBREAK OF HATRED IN JUDEA. 1. The miracle, occasion of the conflict: John 5:1-16; John 2. The discourse of Jesus, commentary and defense of the miracle: John 5:17-47....
III. THE CONDEMNATION OF JEWISH UNBELIEF: JOHN 5:41-47. In John 5:41-44, Jesus unfolds the cause of the moral antipathy which keeps them away from Him; in John 5:45-47, the terrible consequences of th...
“ _Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you_, _Moses, on whom ye have set your hope._ 46. _For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me._ 47....
II. THE DISCOURSE OF JESUS: JOHN 5:17-47. In this discourse which is designed to vindicate the act which He has just performed, the three following thoughts are developed: 1. Jesus justifies His work...
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. (16) And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath...
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...
45._Think not that I shall accuse you to the Father. _This is the way in which we ought to deal with obstinate and hardened persons, when they learn nothing by instruction and friendly warnings. They...
chapter 5 contrasts the quickening power of Christ, the power and the right of giving life to the dead, with the powerlessness of legal ordinances. They required strength in the person that was to pro...
DO NOT THINK THAT I WILL ACCUSE YOU TO THE FATHER,.... To God the Father, as the Ethiopic version reads. The Syriac and Persic versions read by way of interrogation, "do ye think that I will?" c. Chri...
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is _one_ that accuseth you, _even_ Moses, in whom ye trust. Ver. 45. _Do not think that I_] That is, that I only. _ Even Moses_] So your fait...
John 5:45; John 8:15; John 12:47. "I judge him not, for I am not come to judge the world, but to save the world." Men are not properly judged and condemned by the covenant of grace, but by the law, a...
_Do not think that I_ only _will accuse you to the Father_ Our Lord proceeds to caution them against supposing, “that in rejecting him they sinned against no person but him, and that he alone would ac...
DO NOT THINK THAT I; he did not come to condemn them, nor was there any occasion that he should do so. MOSES; he had foretold, Deuteronomy 18:15-19, the coming of the Messiah, and the condemnation of...
AGAIN IN JERUSALEM: THE POOL OF BETHESDA (vs.1-15) Once more we find the Lord Jesus visiting Jerusalem, and as in Chapter 2:13 the feast is called "the Jews' Passover" rather than the Passover of Jeh...
45-47 Many trust in some form of doctrines or some parties, who no more enter into the real meaning of those doctrines, or the views of the persons whose names they bear, than the Jews did into those...
There will be no need of my accusing you, you will need no other accuser than that Moses for whom you have so great a reverence, and for whose sake you contemn me. 1 THESSALONIANS 9:28,29, they said,...
Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes For had ye believed Moses, ye would indeed have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe m...
John 5:45 Do G1380 not G3361 think G1380 (G5720) that G3754 I G1473 accuse G2723 (G5692) you...
“Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father, there is one who accuses you, Moses on whom you have set your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me. But if you do n...
John 5:45. DO NOT THINK THAT I WILL ACCUSE YOU TO THE FATHER: THERE IS ONE THAT ACCUSETH YOU, EVEN MOSES, IN WHOM YE HAVE PLACED YOUR HOPE. These words do not diminish, but increase the severity of ou...
The performance of the miracle of healing on the sabbath had roused the active opposition of the Jews to Jesus, and that again had led to the great declaration contained in John 5:17, in which Jesus a...
THINK NOT (μη δοκειτε). Prohibition with μη and the present imperative. See on verse John 5:39 for δοκεω for mistaken opinions in John.I WILL ACCUSE YOU (εγω κατηγορησω υμων). Emphasis on εγω (I)....
CONTENTS: Healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda. Jesus answers the Jews. The four-fold witness to Jesus. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, infirm man, John the Baptist, Moses. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, th...
John 5:2. _Now there is at Jerusalem a pool, called Bethesda,_ which signifies a house of mercy, beneficence, or alms. The pool was situate at too great a distance from the temple to be a place for wa...
MOSES IS THE ONE WHO WILL ACCUSE YOU. They thought they believed Moses, but they didn't! If they disbelieve Moses, whom they honored, how could they believe Christ whom they did not honor? In rejectin...
_Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father:__ THERE IS ONE THAT ACCUSETH YOU, EVEN MOSES, IN WHOM YE TRUST__._ The day of judgment is likened to a trial, and we learn that with every verdict...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:31 Jesus speaks of several witnesses who bear testimony concerning him (see chart). ⇐...
_Think not_, &c. Listen to Cyril, "He declares that there was no need of any other accuser, for that although all others were silent, the law of Moses by itself was sufficient for the condemnation of...
VER. 36. _But I have greater witness_, &c.: _i.e._, than John's witness; _greater_ in the sense of _surer, more efficacious_, that I am Messiah, the Son of God. This greater testimony is My works, My...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 5:19. THE SON CAN DO NOTHING OF HIMSELF.—This statement refers back to and justifies that of John 5:17. He is still speaking of the eternal relation in which He s...
EXPOSITION Here commences the second division of the Gospel (John 5:1) II. THE CONFLICT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM, GALILEE, AND JERUSALEM, TO THE
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the fifth chapter of the gospel of John. John has just recorded in the fourth chapter the ministry of Jesus in the Galilee when He was at the city of Cana and the noblem...
2 Corinthians 3:7; Galatians 3:10; John 7:19; John 8:5; John 8:6;...
I will accuse [κ α τ η γ ο ρ η σ ω]. From kata, against, and ajgoreuw, to speak in the assembly [α γ ο ρ α]. Hence, properly, to bring an accusation in court. John uses no other verb for accuse, and t...
There is one that accuseth you — By his writings....
THINK NOT THAT. WILL ACCUSE YOU; that is, that I ONLY will accuse you to THE FATHER; THERE IS ONE THAT ACCUSETH YOU, EVEN MOSES; that is, the writings of Moses, which you pretend to depend upon, and t...