Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X
the spirit in Elijah and the power in him having gone over to John-so Herod thought that the powers in John wrought in his case works of baptism and teaching,-for John did not one miracle,[145]
NO MIRACLE - He did not confirm his mission by working miracles, but he showed that he was a prophet by foretelling the character and success of Jesus. Either miracle or prophecy is conclusive proof o...
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...
MANY RESORTED TO HIM. This Perean ministry was fruitful for "many believed on him," this being due to the fact that "all things John spake of this man were true." What were the incidents of this last...
And he went away again to the other side of Jordan, to the place where John first used to baptize; and he stayed there. And many came to him, and they kept saying: "John did no sign; but everything Jo...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
RESORTED. came. SAID. kept saying. DID, &c. Miracles were not necessarily the credentials OF. PROPHET (Deuteronomy 13:1). NO. Greek. _ouden._ MIRACLE. sign,. characteristic word in this Gospel. S...
_many resorted unto him_ There is no reason why the usual translation -came" should be changed to -resorted." The testimony of the Baptist, and perhaps the miraculous voice at Christ's Baptism, were s...
"The chapter ends with a note of place which is evidently and certainly historical. No forger would ever have thought of the periphrasis -where John at first baptized" … -John did no miracle: but all...
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...
ΠΟΛΛΟῚ ἮΛΘΟΝ. The harvest (John 4:35-38). The testimony of the Baptist, and perhaps the miraculous voice at Christ’s Baptism, were still remembered there. Since then there had been the mission of the...
40–42. “The chapter ends with a note of place which is evidently and certainly historical. No forger would ever have thought of the periphrasis ‘where John at first baptized’ … ‘John did no miracle: b...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE DISCOURSE...
VER 39. THEREFORE THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM: BUT HE ESCAPED OUT OF THEIR HAND, 40. AND WENT AWAY AGAIN BEYOND JORDAN INTO THE PLACE WHERE JOHN AT FIRST BAPTIZED; AND THERE HE ABODE. 41. AND MANY R...
_PEOPLE PUT THEIR FAITH IN JESUS -- JOHN 10:39-42:_ Again the Jewish leaders wanted to arrest Jesus. But he escaped. Just how Jesus avoided capture we are not told. Jesus crossed the Jordan to the pla...
ΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить, идти, ΈΠΟΊΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ, _см._ John 10:37. ΑΛΗΘΉΣ (G227) истинный. Здесь в _знач._ "точный"....
JOHN DID NO MIRACLE:— John was not endued with the power of working miracles, that the authority of Jesus might be more conspicuous and unquestionable. We hence see how strong a confirmation of our Lo...
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...
And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true. AND MANY RESORTED UNTO HIM - on whom the Baptist's ministry appears to have left pe...
34 The term "gods" is translated "judges" in Exo_21:6; Exo_22:8-9, where it refers to men. But our Lord does not appeal to this, but to Psa_82:6 where the context clearly excludes men. The mighty spir...
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...
THE PERÆAN MINISTRY. These vv. cover a period of about three months, which is generally spoken of as the Peræan ministry (see Matthew 19:1; Mark 10:1, and cp. Luke 9:51). Its chief incidents were the...
The remark that John did no miracle shows that there was little inclination at this period to invest popular teachers with miraculous powers....
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...
AND MANY RESORTED UNTO HIM. — It is one of the key-notes of this Gospel, struck in its opening words (see Note on John 1:5), and recurring at frequent intervals, that in the midst of even the deepest...
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...
There He was still busy; for πολλοὶ ἦλθον πρὸς αὐτόν, “many came to Him and said,” that is, giving this as their reason for coming, that “although John himself had done no miracle, all he had said of...
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...
JESUS AT BETHANY, PEREA John 10:40-42. “ _And again He went away beyond Jordan_, _into the place where John was first baptizing_, _and there abode. Many came to Him_, _and continued to say_, _That Joh...
“ _And he went away again beyond the Jordan, into the place where John had baptized at the beginning;and he abode there._ 41. _And many came to him, and they said: John did no miracle; but all that Jo...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
41._And many came to him. _This large assembly shows that Christ did not seek solitude, in order to cease from the discharge of his duty, but to erect a sanctuary of God in the wilderness, when Jerusa...
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...
AND MANY RESORTED TO HIM,.... From all the parts adjacent, having heard of his being there, and of the fame of him; and many of them doubtless personally knew him; these came to him, some very likely...
And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true. Ver. 41. _John did no miracle_] Lest he should be mistaken for the Messiah. But how go...
_And_, presently departing from Jerusalem, _he went again beyond Jordan_ Into Perea, a country for the most part desert and rocky; _the place where John at first baptized_ Called Bethabara, John 1:28;...
Jesus leaves Jerusalem:...
AND MANY RESORTED UNTO HIM AND SAID, JOHN DID NO MIRACLE; BUT ALL THINGS THAT JOHN SPAKE OF THIS MAN WERE TRUE....
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...
39-42 No weapon formed against our Lord Jesus shall prosper. He escaped, not because he was afraid to suffer, but because his hour was not come. And He who knew how to deliver himself, knows how to d...
God so ordered it in the wisdom of his providence, that though Elijah and Elisha under the law wrought miracles, by which they confirmed their Divine mission; yet John, coming immediately before Chris...
John 10:41 Then G2532 many G4183 came G2064 (G5627) to G4314 Him G846 and G2532 said G3004 ...
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION (JOHN 10:22)....
John 10:41-42. AND MANY CAME UNTO HIM; AND THEY SAID, JOHN DID NO SIGN: BUT ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER JOHN SPAKE OF THIS MAN WERE TRUE. AND MANY BELIEVED IN HIM THERE. How great the contrast between the s...
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...
MANY CAME TO HIM (πολλο ηλθον προς αυτον). Jesus was busy here and in a more congenial atmosphere than Jerusalem. John wrought no signs the crowds recall, though Jesus did many here (Matthew 19:2)....
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...
JESUS WENT BACK AGAIN. See John 1:28. Jesus had spent nearly three months in Jerusalem in a stormy ministry. Twice they attempted to "mob" him (John 8:59; John 10:31). Twice they attempted to arrest h...
_Therefore they sought again to take Him_ I. MORAL INCORRIGIBILITY. What was the result of Christ’s appeal to His works and to their law? Of His noble life and strong logic? Were their prejudices bro...
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?...
_And many believed on Him_, for doubtless, as S. Augustine says, "they apprehended Him when He was tarrying with them, and not as the Jews wished to apprehend Him, as He was going away. Let us therefo...
_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...
John 1:29; John 1:33; John 1:34; John 3:26; John 3:29;...
John did no miracle — An honour reserved for him, whose forerunner he was....