John 12:37

THE CAUSE OF UNBELIEF (John 12:37-50)

If that view is correct which assigns the last discourse to the temple on Monday it belongs to Christ's farewell words to Israel. From thenceforth he entered the temple no more. In the conflicts recorded in Matthew, Chapter s XXII and XXIII, he had been finally rejected by Israel, and henceforth only awaited for the "Son of Man to be lifted up" that he might draw all races, the races whom Israel despised, unto him. In the closing words to the people, not to "the Jews," recorded by John, his last admonition was to seek the light and to walk in it. All the woes of Israel arose from the fact that they were averse to the light and preferred the darkness, rather than the true light. John, with this admonition in mind, next shows how they had turned away from the light.

37. Though he had done so many miracles before them.

John only records seven of these miracles as types but often refers to the great number of them. See 2:23; 4:45; 7:31; 20:30.

Believed not.

Many of them had. kind of intellectual faith in him as. man of God, or as the "prophet of Galilee," but they did not have that faith which believes, trusts and devotes one's life.