B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary
John 5:40
Might have life.
They turned away from the life that was in their own Scriptures. The word search implies painstaking, exhaustive examination.
Might have life.
They turned away from the life that was in their own Scriptures. The word search implies painstaking, exhaustive examination.
Verse 40. _AND YE WILL NOT COME TO ME_] Though ye thus search the Scriptures, in hopes of finding the _Messiah_ and _eternal life_ in them, yet _ye will not come unto me_, believe in me, and be my dis...
AND YE WILL NOT COME ... - Though the Old Testament bears evidence that I am the Messiah; though you professedly search it to learn the way to life, and though my works prove it, yet you will not come...
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...
WITNESS. The subject is introduced abruptly, but rises naturally out of the circumstances. The claims made, if less than the author represents them, were such as to raise the question of authority. By...
And the Father who sent me has home witness about me. You have never heard his voice, nor have you ever seen his form. You do not have his word dwelling in you, because you do not believe in the One w...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
WILL NOT COME. do not will (John 5:6) to come. TO. Greek. _pros._ App-104. MIGHT. may....
_ye will not come to me_ Not the future of -to come," but the present of -to will:" _ye_ ARE NOT WILLING TO _come to Me_. This is at the root of their failure to read Scripture aright, their hearts ar...
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...
_The Father's testimony is evident_, (a) _in the works assigned to Me_, (b) _in the revelation which ye do not receive_....
The connexion of thought in the next few verses is very difficult to catch, and cannot be affirmed with certainty. This is often the case in S. John's writings. A number of simple sentences follow one...
ΟΥ̓ ΘΈΛΕΤΕ. YE ARE NOT WILLING _to come to Me_. This is at the root of their failure to read Scripture aright; their hearts are estranged. They have no _will_ to find the truth, and without that no in...
37–40. The connexion of thought in the next few verses is very difficult to catch, and cannot be affirmed with certainty. This is often the case in S. John’s writings. A number of simple sentences fol...
36–40. _The Father’s testimony is evident_, (a) _in the works assigned to Me_, (b) _in the revelation which ye do not receive_....
THE UNBELIEF OF THE JEWS...
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
Ver 31. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32. There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. 33. You sent to John, and he b...
_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...
ΈΛΘΕΪ́Ν _aor. act. inf. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить. _Inf._ дополняет основной гл. ΈΧΗΤΕ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь. _Conj._ с ΊΝ (G2443) выражает цель....
DISCOURSE: 1631 THE TRUE REASON OF MEN’S DESTRUCTION John 5:40. _Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life_. TO doubt whether men wish to be saved or not, may appear absurd. No man would hesita...
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...
And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. AND YE WILL NOT COME, [ ou (G3756 ) thelete (G2309 ) elthein (G2064...
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...
AND YE WILL NOT COME TO ME. — The real hindrance is once more traced to the will. (See Note on John 3:9.) It is moral, not intellectual. The result of a true willingness to know the truth is certain,...
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...
καὶ οὐ … ἔχητε. The true function of Scripture is expressed in the words, ἐκεῖναί εἰσιν αἱ μαρτυροῦσαι περὶ ἐμοῦ : they do not give life, as the Jews thought; they lead to the life-giver. God speaks i...
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...
And you will not come to me. Christ now gives them reason why they do not receive him, and his doctrine, nor believe in him; because they are void of the love of God, full of self-love, envy, pride, s...
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.”...
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...
“ _And his word ye have not abiding in you, for ye believe not him whom he hath sent._ 39. _Ye search the Scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear...
II. THE TESTIMONY OF THE FATHER, IN SUPPORT OF THAT WHICH THE SON RENDERS TO HIMSELF: JOHN 5:31-40. Jesus had just ascribed to Himself marvelous works. Such declarations might provoke an objection amo...
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...
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....
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...
_THE DEVOTIONAL STUDY OF SCRIPTURE_ ‘They are they which testify of Me.’ John 5:39 By the devotional study of Scripture I understand such a study, or rather, I may say, such ‘a use’ of God’s Word a...
40._And you will not come to me. _He again reproaches them that it is nothing but their own malice that hinders them from becoming partakers of the life offered in the Scriptures; for when he says tha...
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...
AND YE WILL NOT COME TO ME,.... Which is to be understood, not of a corporeal coming to him; for many of the Jews did come to him in this sense; some for one thing, and some for another; some for the...
And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. Ver. 40. _Ye will not come to me_] Though clearly convinced by the Scriptures. See their obstinace and malice. Amos,Amos 6:12, compareth such unta...
_Search the Scriptures_ Because the Jews were exceedingly averse to acknowledge Jesus for their Messiah, notwithstanding that the evidences of his mission were so unexceptionable, he appeals, lastly,...
YE WILL NOT COME TO ME; notwithstanding this evidence that he was the Messiah, they would not receive him....
The authority of the Scriptures:...
AND YE WILL NOT COME TO ME THAT YE MIGHT HAVE LIFE....
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...
39-44 The Jews considered that eternal life was revealed to them in their Scriptures, and that they had it, because they had the word of God in their hands. Jesus urged them to search those Scripture...
You will not own, embrace, and receive me as the true Messiah and Saviour of the world, though that be the only means by which you can obtain that eternal life which you pretend to be seeking after, a...
John 5:40 But G2532 not G3756 willing G2309 (G5719) come G2064 (G5629) to G4314 Me G3165 that...
“You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form, and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe him whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures, because you think...
WITNESSES TO THE GENUINENESS OF HIS AUTHORITY (JOHN 5:31). Jesus now goes on to describe the witnesses which support Him: · He is the One to Whom the Father has borne witness (John 5:37) · His very...
John 5:40. AND YE WILL NOT COME TO ME, THAT YE MAY HAVE LIFE. The Jews did search the sacred writings, to do so was their honour and their pride. Their own belief was that in possessing them they poss...
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...
AND YE WILL NOT COME TO ME (κα ου θελετε ελθειν προς με). "And yet" (κα) as often in John. "This is the tragedy of the rejection of Messiah by the Messianic race" (Bernard). See John 1:11; Matthew 2...
John 5:40 The Lamentations of Jesus I. Men, before regeneration, and apart from the salvation of God, are in a state which Jesus counts and calls death. In this plaint of the Saviour the true conditi...
John 5:39 Searching Scripture and finding Christ I. It is evident that the failure of many men to find Christ is not from any deficiency in the means of discovering Him. It is this which our Lord so...
John 5:24. _Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life,_ If we truly believe the word of Christ, and trust in him who sent his S...
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...
YOU STUDY THE SCRIPTURES. They were looking to find eternal life. Compare Romans 9:30-33. AND THEY THEMSELVES SPEAK ABOUT ME! The Scriptures gave their witness to Christ, The entire Old Testament poin...
_If I bear witness of Myself My witness is not true._ There is another that beareth witness of Me THE WITNESSES OF THE SON I. A GREAT WITNESS, His forerunner. The Baptist as a witness for Christ wa...
THE ENCHANTMENT OF SIN Ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. John 5:40. There is a book called _The Faerie Queen_ which was written a few hundred years ago. It is full of wonderful stories...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:31 Jesus speaks of several witnesses who bear testimony concerning him (see chart). ⇐...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:1 Chapters John 5:1 tell of escalating conflict between Jesus and the Jewish authorities. As Jesus defends his ministry, he cites several major witnesses on his behalf....
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...
_And_ (yet), _ye will not_, &c. "Ye do not wish to cleave to Me, to believe in Me, to receive My doctrine and My law....
_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...
1 John 5:11; Isaiah 49:7; Isaiah 50:2; Isaiah 53:1; John 1:11;...
And. More than a simple copula. Rather and yet. See on Luke 18:7. Ye will not [ο υ θ ε λ ε τ ε]. Indicating stubborn determination. See on Matthew 1:19....
Yet ye will not come unto me — As they direct you....
Here our Saviour upbraids the Jews for thier obstinate infidelity; that notwithstanding God the Father by. voice from heaven, and John the Baptist by his testimony on earth, notwithstanding all the mi...