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John 6:39
And this is the Father's will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
And this is the Father's will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
Verse 39. _I SHOULD LOSE NOTHING_] It is the will of God that every soul who believes should continue in the faith, and have a resurrection unto life eternal. But he _wills_ this _continuance_ in sal...
FATHER’S WILL - His purpose; desire; intention. As this is the Father’s will, and Jesus came to execute his will, we have the highest security that it will be done. God’s will is always right, and he...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Feeding of the Five Thousand Men. (John 6:1 .)_ 2. The Attempt to Make Him King, (John 6:15 .) 3. The Stormy Sea. “It is I, be not afraid.” (John 6:16 .) 4. The Discourse on the...
THE DESIRE FOR A SIGN: THE TRUE MANNA. After raising their expectations He had refused to go forward. In answer to their surprise at finding Him so soon across the lake He tells them why. Their hopes...
THAT OF ALL WHICH HE HATH GIVEN ME. SHOULD LOSE NOTHING. He would not cast out any one coming to him, for such were given of the Father, and his will was that the Son should lose none of those given,...
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
Jesus said to them: "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never hunger, and he who believes in me will never thirst any more. But I tell you, though you have seen me, yet you do not believe...
OF ALL. whatever, as in John 6:37. Compare John 6:44, and John 12:32. LOSE NOTHING. not (App-105) lose any of (Greek. _ek._ App-104) it. RAISE. App-178. AT THE LAST DAY. An expression found only in...
_this is the Father's will_, &c. The true reading is; _this is_ THE WILL OF HIM THAT SENT ME. _that of all_ Literally, _in order that of all:_see on John 6:29. _all which he hath given me_ -All" is n...
The Discourse on the Son as the Support of Life God's revealed word and created world are unhappily alike in this; that the most beautiful places in each are often the scene and subject of strife. Th...
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...
ΤῸ ΘΈΛΗΜΑ … ἽΝΑ. See on John 1:8; John 4:47; John 17:3, and comp. John 6:29. ΠΑ͂Ν. _Casus pendens_: comp....
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SUPPORT OF LIFE God’s revealed word and created world are unhappily alike in this; that the most beautiful places in each are often the scene and subject of strife. Thi...
_Identification of the Spiritual Bread with Christ _...
Digression on the blessedness of those who come to Christ as believers...
par Ver 35. And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes in me shall never thirst. 36. But I said to you, That you also have seen, and...
_TEACHING ABOUT THE BREAD OF LIFE -- JOHN 6:22-65:_ On the next day the multitude realized that Jesus was gone and they went to find Him. The people asked Jesus how or when He got to Capernaum. Jesus...
ΆΠΟΛΈΣΩ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΠΌΛΛΥΜΙ (G622) уничтожать, терять. "Чтобы я не потерял ни одного из всего сообщества" (Barrett; TDNT). ΆΝΑΣΤΉΣΩ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΝΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G450) поднимать. _Conj._ с...
THE BREAD OF LIFE, I _Text 6:30-40_ 30 They said therefore unto him, What then doest thou for a sign, that we may see, and believe thee? what workest thou? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wil...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 6:28-40 Below we give an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— It is both important and instructive to observe the connection between John 5 and Jo...
And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. AND THIS IS THE FATHER'S WILL WHICH HATH S...
34 Eating to supply the demands of physical hunger and thirst is but a symbol of the spiritual satisfaction apart from which life is debased to mere existence. Desires and aspirations for spiritual su...
THE BREAD OF LIFE John 6:1 to John 7:1. Feeding the five thousand. Walking upon the sea. Discourse upon the bread of life. Defection of many disciples. The Apostles stand firm. Returning from Jerusal...
DISCOURSE ON THE BREAD OF LIFE. As in John 4 Jesus is the giver of 'living water,' so here He is the 'living bread' or 'manna' of the soul. Such language had been to some extent prepared for by OT. re...
RAISE IT UP] Jesus shows that He has come to abolish not natural, but spiritual death. Believers will die, but their death will be followed by a glorious resurrection. Here, as usually in the NT., 're...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 6 JESUS FEEDS 5000 MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES 6:1-15 V1 After this, Jesus went across Lake *Galilee. (Lake *Galilee was cal...
AND THIS IS THE FATHER’S WILL. — Read, with best MSS., _And this is the will of Him that sent Me._ Comp. Note on John 6:40. These two verses further set forth the divine will in the mission of Christ,...
CHAPTER 14 JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE. John 6:1. In this chapter John follows the same method as in the last. He first relates the sign, and then gives our Lord's interpretation of it. As to the Samari...
ὅτι καταβέβηκα … ἡμέρᾳ. Everywhere Jesus forestalls the idea that He is speaking for Himself, and is uttering merely human judgments, or is in any way regulated in His action by what is arbitrary: it...
THE FATHER'S WILL JESUS' LAW OF LIFE John 6:30-40 On the day following, our Lord had to encounter, first the demand of the people for a continuation of the miracle of the preceding night, John 6:25-4...
The whole chapter really records things resulting from the conflict recorded in the previous one. Having crossed the sea, Jesus first fed the multitude, and they, enamored of His ability, attempted to...
CHAPTER 33 PUZZLE OF THE MULTITUDE John 6:22-71. _“On the following day the multitude, standing beyond the sea, saw that there was no other ship except one, and that Jesus did not go along with His d...
1. VV. 25-40. This first phase is made up of four brief dialogues, each including a question of the Jews and an answer of Jesus. The last of these answers is more fully developed; Jesus expresses in...
II. THE DISCOURSES: JOHN 6:22-65. This section contains, first an historical introduction (John 6:22-24), then a series of conversations and discourses (John 6:25-65)....
VER. 39. “ _Now this is the will of him who sent me_, _that I should lose nothing of all that which he has given me, but that I should raise it up at the last day._ ” The δέ is progressive: _now._ The...
The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with h...
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...
_IMPERSONAL RESURRECTION_ ‘And this is the Father’s Will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.’ John 6:39 ‘Raise...
39._And this is the will of the Father. _He now testifies, that this is the design of the Father, that believers may find salvation secured in Christ; from which again it follows, that all who do not...
In chapter 6, then, it is the Lord come down from heaven, humbled and put to death, not now as the Son of God, one with the Father, the source of life; but as He who, although He was Jehovah and at th...
AND THIS IS THE FATHER'S WILL WHICH HATH SENT ME,.... This explains both who he was that sent him; the Father of him, and of his people; whose sending of him does not suppose any change of place, or i...
And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. Ver. 39. _I should raise it up again_] By vir...
_For I came down from heaven_ Into this lower world; _not to do mine own will_ Or to seek any separate interest of my own; _but the will of him that sent me_ Who is loving to every man, and willeth no...
FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND (vs.1-13) The setting here is no longer Jerusalem, but Galilee, and the contrast to the beginning of chapter 5 is striking. For here grace shines out beautifully, available...
36-46 The discovery of their guilt, danger, and remedy, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit, makes men willing and glad to come, and to give up every thing which hinders applying to him for salvation....
For this he revealeth to be his Father's will, that of all his Father had given him, he should lose none; where by the Father's giving must be meant, either his eternal act (having chosen some to eter...
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh and in the affirmation He of course includes the promise of their safety; for if they were to be lost, where would be the use of having taken such a numeri...
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‘And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day'. And this was the will of the Father Who sent Him, that He sho...
THE BREAD OF LIFE, EATING HIS FLESH AND DRINKING HIS BLOOD (JOHN 6:26). The narrative that follows must be carefully divided up if it is to be properly understood. There are in fact three clearly dif...
WORDS TO THE CROWDS (JOHN 6:26). Jesus' initial words were spoken to the crowds who had followed Him. These were the more simple folk whose thoughts were on more food, and miraculous provision. They w...
In the miracle of the multiplying of the bread Jesus has symbolically presented Himself as the true bread of life. This thought is now unfolded in the various discourses with which the remainder of th...
John 6:39. AND THIS IS THE WILL OF HIM THAT SENT ME, THAT ALL THAT WHICH HE HATH GIVEN ME, OF IT I SHOULD LOSE NOTHING. Here, as in John 6:37, the gift of the Father is represented in its totality, ‘a...
THAT OF ALL THAT WHICH (ινα παν ο). Literally, "That all which" (see verse John 6:37 for παν ο), but there is a sharp anacoluthon with παν left as _nominativus pendens_.I SHOULD LOSE NOTHING (μη α...
John 6:1. _After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were disease...
John 6:14. _Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come an...
John 6:22. The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went...
John 6:22. The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went...
These people had crossed the Sea of Galilee, and gone to Capernaum, «seeking for Jesus.» It seemed a very hopeful sign that they should be willing to make such efforts to find Christ, but see how the...
John 6:30. _They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them b...
CONTENTS: Feeding the 5000. Walking on the sea. Discourse on the Bread of Life. Peter's confession of faith. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, boy, Moses, Joseph. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, the true...
John 6:2. _A great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles._ But being dull of apprehension, they seemed to have no idea that the Lord could feed the hungry, as well as heal the sick. Ch...
FOR WHAT MY FATHER WANTS IS THIS. God intends that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him, should have eternal life. (1) There is no "secret decree" of "election." People "sort themselves out...
BECAUSE I HAVE COME. Jesus came from heaven to earth, to _lead_ men and women to eternal life. Jesus came to be the world's Savior....
_The day following_ JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE I. OUR LORD’S AVOWAL OF HIS DIVINE NATURE AND HIS HEAVENLY ERRAND. More than thirty times in this one discourse does He use the personal pronouns “Me” and...
_For I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me_ THE LOVE OF THE FATHER The amazing love of the Father appears I. IN HIS SPARING THIS GUILTY WORLD, though He...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 6:39 ALL THAT HE HAS GIVEN ME implies that everyone who has been “given” by the Father to the Son for salvation will in fact be saved. ⇐
CHAPTER 6 VER. 1. _After this_, &c. Tiberias is here named, because the desert in which Christ fed the five thousand was near to Tiberias. _After this_, not immediately, but almost a year afterwards....
_But this is His will_, &c. _Everything_, i.e., _all altogether, of every nation, rank, age_, or _sex_, as 1 have said, verse 37. I will not lose (_perdam_), i.e., _I will not suffer to perish._ He ex...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 6:22. NONE OTHER BOAT, RATHER LITTLE SHIP (πλοιάριον).—The meaning of this long and complicated sentence is plain. A number of the crowd who had been present when...
EXPOSITION JOHN 6:1 2. _Christ declares himself to be the Sustainer and Protector of the life of which he is the Source_. JOHN 6:1 (1) _The supply of human wants illustrated by a well known _"_si...
Now we have an indeterminate rate of time. Jesus was in Jerusalem when He was saying these things, they were as a result of this blind man...or the lame man, rather, who was healed there at the pool o...
1 Peter 1:5; 1 Samuel 25:29; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Thessalonians 2:14;...
The Father's will. Omit the Father 's. Render, the will of Him, etc. That of all which He hath given me [ι ν α π α ν ο δ ε δ ω κ ε μ ο ι]. The construction is a peculiar and broken one. All which He h...
THE BREAD OF LIFE John 6:33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When the devil said to Christ. "If Thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread," the Lord quickly unsheathed the sword of the Spiri...
Of all which he hath already given me — See John 17:6, John 17:12. If they endure to the end. But Judas did not....