CHAPTER 13. ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Whatever view may be taken of the details of the plan of this Gospel, there can be no doubt that there is a new and marked turn in the narrative at the beginning of this chapter the events of the last evening and the last day of Jesus' life being... [ Continue Reading ]
VER. 1. “ _Before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come_, _when he should leave this world to go to the Father, after having loved his own who were in the world, he perfectly testified to them all his love._ ” The words _before the feast of the Passover_ are connected with... [ Continue Reading ]
Preamble. We have already discovered at the beginning of several narratives short introductions describing the situation, at once external and moral, in which the fact about to be related is accomplished; thus John 2:23-25; John 3:22-24; John 4:1-2; John 4:43-45. Each of these preambles is, with rel... [ Continue Reading ]
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. With reference to the individual words and phrases of John 13:1-11 the following suggestions may be offered: 1. The _hour_, which has been spoken of in the earlier part of the Gospel as not yet come, is here, as in John 12:23, referred to as already present.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIRD PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAITH IN THE DISCIPLES. 13:1- 17:26. THE third part of the Gospel describes the last moments which Jesus passed with His disciples; while making us acquainted with the supreme manifestations of His love towards them, it initiates us into the full development of _faith_... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _And a supper having taken place_, _when the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him_, 3 _Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God and went to God._ ” And first, the temporal determination: _a suppe... [ Continue Reading ]
“[Jesus] _rises from the supper and lays aside his garments; and, taking a towel, he girds himself._ 5. _Then he pours water into the basin; and he began to wash the feet of his disciples and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded._ ” Joh 13:3 has initiated us in advance into the meanin... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _He comes therefore to Simon Peter, and he says to him, Lord_, _Dost thou wash my feet?_ 7. _Jesus answered and said to him, What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter._ 8. _Peter says to him, No, thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast... [ Continue Reading ]
VV. 9 presents to us, in the case of Peter, one of those sudden changes of impression which we frequently observe in him, in the Synoptic narrative. Here is the same Peter who rushes upon the water and a moment afterward cries “I perish!” who strikes with the sword and who takes to flight, who enter... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _When therefore he had washed their feet and taken his garments again, having resumed his seat at table_, _he said to them, Know you what I have done to you?_ 13. _You call me Master and Lord_, _and you say well,_ _for so I am._ 14. _If I then, the Lord and the Master, have washed your feet, you a... [ Continue Reading ]
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 12-20. 1. The explanation of the act performed by Jesus which is here given evidently points towards humility, and thus is easily connected with the dispute among the disciples, recorded by Luke, as to which of them was the greatest. But John 13:10 show... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _I do not say this of you all; I know those whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me._ 19. _From henceforth I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it is come to pass, you may believe that I am he._ ” The idea of... [ Continue Reading ]
VER. 20. “ _Verily, verily, I say unto you: He that receives him whom I shall send, receives me, and he that receives me, receives him that sent me._ ” The relation between this saying and those which precede is so far from clear that _Kuinoel_ and Lucke proposed to consider this verse as a gloss de... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _After having said this, Jesus was troubled in his spirit and testified and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you that one of you shall betray me._ 22. _The disciples therefore looked upon one another, not being able to understand of whom he was speaking._ ” Jesus' emotion does not spring from any... [ Continue Reading ]
II. THE DISMISSAL OF JUDAS: JOHN 13:21-30. Here also is a work of Jesus' love towards His own. As long as Judas was present, His heart was under restraint, and could not give vent to all the feelings of which He was full. John 13:31 expresses in a life-like way the feeling of deliverance which Jesu... [ Continue Reading ]
_Now one of the disciples, he whom Jesus loved, was reclining on his bosom;_ 24 _Simon Peter beckoned to him to ask who this one might be._ ” Among the ancients, persons reclined rather than sat at table, each guest having the left arm supported on a cushion, so as to support the head, and the righ... [ Continue Reading ]
VV. 25-27A. “ _He therefore leaning back on Jesus' breast, says to him, Lord, who is it?_ 26. _Jesus answers him: He it is to whom I shall give a piece of bread when it is dipped.And having dipped the piece_, _he gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon._ 27a. _And, after he had taken the piece, then... [ Continue Reading ]
VV. 27B-30. “ _Jesus therefore said to him: What thou doest, do quickly._ 28. _But no one of those who were at table knew why he said this to him._ 29. _For some thought that, as Judas had the bag, Jesus meant to say to him, Buy the things which we have need of for the feast, or that he bade him giv... [ Continue Reading ]
I. THE SEPARATION; ITS NECESSITY: 13:31-14:31. After some words uttered by Jesus under the immediate impression of the departure of Judas (John 13:31-35), Jesus replies to different questions relative to His approaching removal which He has just announced to them; that of Peter (ver. John 13:36 to J... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _When therefore he was gone out, Jesus says, Now has the Son of man been glorified; and God has been glorified in him._ 32. _If God has been glorified in him_, _God will also glorify him in himself_, _and will straightway_ _glorify him._ ” These two verses are as if a cry of relief which escapes... [ Continue Reading ]
SECOND SECTION: 13:31-16:33. THE DISCOURSES. Jesus has just taken leave of Judas, an eternal leavetaking: _Do what thou hast to do!_ He turns now towards His own, and the farewell which He addresses to them is an: until we meet again (_Gess_). The departure of Judas has restored to His restrained f... [ Continue Reading ]
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 31-38. 1. The departure of Judas, leaving Jesus alone with His faithful disciples, turns His thoughts again to the glory and triumph awaiting Him, comp. John 12:23, but now both to the earthly (John 13:31) and the heavenly glory (John 13:32). A participa... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _My little children, yet a little while I am with you; you will seek me, and, as I said to the Jews: Whither I go, you cannot come, so now I say to you._ 34. _I give you a new commandment, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another._ 35. _By this shall all men k... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Simon Peter says to him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him_, _Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me afterwards._ 37. _Peter says to him, Lord_, _why cannot I follow thee now?I will lay down my life for thee._ 38. _Jesus answered him_, _Wilt thou lay down... [ Continue Reading ]