Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
John 12:45
ὁ θεωρῶν. He who beholdeth, contemplateth (John 6:40; John 6:62; John 7:3; John 14:17; John 14:19; John 16:10; John 16:16-17; John 16:19, &c.).
ὁ θεωρῶν. He who beholdeth, contemplateth (John 6:40; John 6:62; John 7:3; John 14:17; John 14:19; John 16:10; John 16:16-17; John 16:19, &c.).
SEETH ME ... - This verse is a strong confirmation of his equality with God. In no other way can it be true that he who saw Jesus saw him that sent him, unless he were the same in essence. Of no man c...
CHAPTER 12 1. The Feast at Bethany. (John 12:1 .) 2. The Entrance into Jerusalem. (John 12:9 .) 3. The Inquiring Greeks and His Answer. (John 12:20 .) 4. His Final Words. ...
FINAL SUMMARY OF JESUS-' PUBLIC TEACHING. This summing up of what was most important in the teaching of Jesus throws interesting light on the author's method of recording the speeches. Belief in Jesus...
JESUS CRIED AND SAID. John does not say when, or where, but. think, gives. sort of summary of what he had said, now that his appeal to the Jewish nation was closed. In verses 44 and 46 he declares hi...
LOVE'S EXTRAVAGANCE (John 12:1-8)...
Jesus cried and said: "He who believes in me does not believe in me, but in him who sent me. And he who looks upon me, looks upon him who sent me. It was as light that I came into the world, that ever...
SEETH. Greek. _theoreo._ App-133....
_seeth_ Or, BEHOLDETH, _contemplateth_. The same verb is used John 6:40; John 6:62; John 7:3 and frequently in S. John....
The Judgment of Christ The Evangelist has just summed up the results of Christ's ministry (37 43). He now corroborates that estimate by Quoting Christ Himself. But as John 12:36 seems to give us the...
Ver 44. Jesus cried and said, He that believes in me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me. 45. And he that sees me sees him that sent me. 46. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever b...
_JESUS CAME TO SAVE THE WORLD -- JOHN 12:44-50:_ Jesus spoke of faith in God saying, "He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me." Jesus mission was to cause people to belie...
ΘΕΩΡΏΝ _praes. act. part. пот. masc. sing. от_ ΘΕΩΡΈΩ (G2334) видеть, ΠΈΜΨΑΝΤΑ, _см._ John 12:44. Part, в роли _subst._...
THE IMPERATIVE WORDS _Text 12:44-50_ 44 And Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. 45 And he that beholdeth me beholdeth him that sent me. 4...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 12:37-50 The following is an Analysis of the closing section of John 12:— "These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them" (John 12:36)...
And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. AND HE THAT SEETH ME SEETH HIM THAT SENT ME, [ theooroon (G2334) ... theoorei (G2334)] - or 'beholdeth,' in the emphatic sense of John 6:40. But what a...
37 What better proof could be found that they were walking in darkness than their rejection of the Man of Sorrows? The prophets plainly foretold their action and yet they are too much in the dark to s...
12:45 beholds (f-4) As ch. 6.40....
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. CLOSE OF THE PUBLIC MINISTRY 1-11. Supper at Bethany (see on Matthew 26:6 and Mark 14:3, which record the same incident). The event in Luke 7:36. is different. The supper was at t...
JUDGMENT OF JESUS UPON THEIR UNBELIEF. He refuses to condemn them formally (John 12:47), because His First Coming was not to judge, but to save. Yet He adds that in the Last Day they will be self-cond...
Cp. John 14:9....
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 12 MARY POURS EXPENSIVE *PERFUME OVER JESUS’ FEET 12:1-11 V1 Six (6) days before the *Passover, Jesus returned to Betha...
HE THAT BELIEVETH ON ME, BELIEVETH NOT ON ME. — These words do not occur literally in any discourse of our Lord which we now have, but the thought has met us again and again. (Comp. John 5:36; John 7:...
V. _ RESULTS OF CHRIST'S MANIFESTATION._ "But though He had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on Him: that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord,...
Here He adds καὶ ὁ θεωρῶν ἐμὲ θεωρεῖ τὸν πέμψαντά με : “he who beholds me, beholds Him that sent me”; so John 14:9; _cf._ John 6:40. Jesus was the perfect transparency through whom the Father was seen...
_A summary of the teaching of Jesus regarding the nature and consequences of faith and unbelief_....
THE COMMANDMENT OF THE FATHER John 12:42-50 The fear of being cast out of the synagogue was a very real one, John 9:22; and the yoke laid on Israel by the Pharisees was a very crushing one. Only a ve...
The shadows of the Passion were now falling across the path of the Christ. In what happened at the supper we have a vivid contrast. Mary and Judas arrest our attention. She, discovering the sorrows of...
_He that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. In what sense these words are true, see John xiv. ver. 9. where they are repeated again, and with other expressions to the same sense. (Witham)_...
SUPREMACY OF THE WORD John 12:44-50. _“And Jesus cried out and said, He that believeth on Me, believeth not on Me, but on Him that sent Me; and he that seeth Me, seeth Him that sent Me.”_ In this affi...
THIRD SECTION: 12:37-50. RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT THE MYSTERIOUS FACT OF JEWISH UNBELIEF. This passage forms the close of the second part of the Gospel (John 12:1-36). The evangelist interrupts his nar...
“ _Now Jesus cried, saying, He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me;_ 45 _and he that beholds me, beholds him that sent me;_ 46 _I am come as a light into the world, that w...
II. THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAITH AND UNBELIEF: JOHN 12:44-50. Israel was not only blinded with reference to the signs; it was deaf as regarded the testimonies which accompanied them, and this is what fin...
The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth forever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? (35) Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a...
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...
45._And he who seeth me. _The word _see _is here taken for _knowledge_; for, in order to give true and thorough tranquillity to our consciences, which would otherwise have been constantly liable to va...
His place (chapter 12) now is with the remnant, where His heart found rest the house of Bethany. We have, in this family, a sample of the true remnant of Israel, three different cases with regard to t...
AND HE THAT SEETH ME, SEETH HIM THAT SENT ME. Not with bodily eyes, for there were many that saw Christ, who never saw the Father: they saw Christ as a mere man, and were offended at the meanness of h...
And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. Ver. 45. _Seeth him that sent me_] For God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and in him the Godhead dwelt bodily, Colossians 2:9. So that in...
_Jesus_ On some occasion or other, soon after this, in order to strengthen the faith of those timid and diffident disciples (if such they could be called) last mentioned, and to inspire them with cour...
HE THAT SEETH ME, SEETH HIM THAT SENT ME; chap John 10:30; John 10:38....
OF FAITH IN CHRIST AND GOD. John 12:42...
AND HE THAT SEETH ME SEETH HIM THAT SENT ME....
A SUPPER FOR HIM AT BETHANY (vs.1-8) Six days before the Passover He returned to the area of Jerusalem, coming by way of Jericho, as Luke shows us (Luke 19:1). These days He spent in ministering mai...
44-50 Our Lord publicly proclaimed, that every one who believed on him, as his true disciple, did not believe on him only, but on the Father who sent him. Beholding in Jesus the glory of the Father,...
No man hath seen God at any time; but he that by the eyes of his mind knows, and understands, and believeth in me, seeth him that sent me: or, he that seeth me in my works which I do, seeth also him t...
John 12:45 And G2532 sees G2334 (G5723) Me G1691 sees G2334 (G5719) sent G3992 (G5660) Me...
A FINAL SUMMARY OF HIS TEACHING (JOHN 12:44). John is now concerned that the last that we hear of Jesus before the hours leading up to His crucifixion will be the essence of His message, a message th...
‘And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in me believes not (only) in me but in him who sent me. And he who closely observes me sees him who sent me'. This then was the essence of Jesus' procla...
John 12:45. AND HE THAT BEHOLDETH ME, BEHOLDETH HIM THAT SENT ME. In chap. John 6:40 (see note) we have the same combination as in these verses: ‘He that beholdeth the Son and believeth in Him.' A lit...
The public ministry of Jesus has been brought to a close, and the moment has been marked by words the melancholy pathos of which can hardly be mistaken, ‘Having gone away, He was hidden from then' (Jo...
John 12:37. _But though he had done so many miracles before then, yet they believed not on him._ They had an opportunity of seeing with their eyes; what the Christ could do. He had even raised the de...
Our Lord had gained a sudden popularity through raising Lazarus from the dead, and the people had attended him with great enthusiasm as he rode through the streets of Jerusalem. For the time, things l...
John 12:20. And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would...
CONTENTS: The supper at Bethany. The triumphal entry. Jesus' answer to Greeks. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Lazarus, Mary, Martha, disciples, Judas, Philip, Andrew, Isaiah, Pharisees. CONCLUSION: The most plen...
John 12:1. _Six days before the passover._ The Hebrew sabbath was kept from sunset to sunset. The worship of the day being closed, the jews indulged in a good supper after the light food of the day. T...
_But though He had done so many miracles … yet they believed not on Him_ OUR LORD’S MINISTRY I. ITS DETAILS. 1. The doctrines He taught (John 12:44). These words are an abridged statement of our Lor...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:20 These verses conclude the first major part of John’s Gospel, which narrates Jesus’ mission to the Jews. The arrival of some Greeks signals to Jesus that the mission exclusively...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 12:37. The Evangelist’s statement of the causes of Jewish unbelief, and of the timidity of many who believed, which prevented them confessing Christ. John 12:37...
EXPOSITION The twelfth chapter neither belongs intrinsically to that which precedes nor to that which follows. It is a paragraph of high significance, as bearing on the construction of the Gospel. It...
Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead. They made him a supper; and Martha served [typical of Martha]: but Laz...
1 John 5:20; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:3; John 12
Seeth [θ ε ω ρ ε ι]. Rev., properly, beholdeth. Compare John 14:9. The word is purposely chosen to mark an intent, continuous contemplation of Christ, issuing in ever larger knowledge of the Father. I...
And he that seeth me — By the eye of faith....