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Verse John 5:18. _MAKING HIMSELF EQUAL WITH GOD._] This the Jews
understood from the preceding verse: nor did they take a wrong meaning
out of our Lord's words; for he plainly stated that, whatever w...
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THE MORE TO KILL HIM - The answer of Jesus was suited greatly to
irritate them. He did not deny what he had done, but he “added” to
that what he well knew would highly offend them. That he should clai...
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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...
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BECAUSE HE NOT ONLY HAD BROKEN THE SABBATH.
The Pharisees were horrified, not only at what they deemed the
breaking of the Sabbath, but at the high ground on which the Lord
placed his defence. They co...
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It was Sabbath on that day. So the Jews said to the man who had been
cured: "It is Sabbath and you have no right to lift your bed." He
answered them: "He who made me well, it was he who said to me: 'L...
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MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
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TO KILL HIM. Note three attempts on the Lord's life, all connected
with His claim to Deity, here; John 8:58, Joh 8:69. John 10:30; John
10:31.
BECAUSE HE NOT ONLY. The 1611 edition of the Authorized V...
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_Therefore_ Better, FOR THIS CAUSE. See on John 5:16; John 6:65; John
7:21-22; John 8:47;...
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The Prerogatives and Powers of the Son of God
17, 18. _Defence of healing on the Sabbath based on the relation of
the Son to the Father_.
_My Father worketh hitherto_, &c. Or, _My Father_ IS WORKING...
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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...
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17, 18. _Defence of healing on the Sabbath based on the relation of
the Son to the Father_....
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THE PREROGATIVES AND POWERS OF THE SON OF GOD...
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ΔΙᾺ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ. See on John 5:16. ΜΑ͂ΛΛΟΝ shews that
ἐδίωκον in John 5:16 includes attempts to compass His death.
Comp. Mark 3:6. This is the blood-red thread which runs through the
whole of this section...
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THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
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Ver 14. Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him,
Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come to
you. 15. The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, wh...
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_JESUS IS EQUAL WITH GOD -- JOHN 5:14-18:_ After Jesus healed the man
He went into the Temple and found the man. He told him, "You are now
well. But do not sin anymore or something worse might happen...
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ΈΖΉΤΟΥΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΖΗΤΈΩ (G2212) искать.
_Impf._ является либо прогрессивным,
указывающим на развивающееся
действие, либо iterat.: "они продолжали
пытаться убить Его"
ΆΠΟΚΤΕΊΝΑΙ _aor. act....
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DISCOURSE: 1625
CHRIST’S EQUALITY WITH THE FATHER
John 5:17. _Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I
work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not
only had brok...
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GOD WAS HIS FATHER,— Our Lord's vindication offended the Jews
exceedingly, as he claimed a peculiar, proper, and most high relation
to God the Father, and, by asserting that he acted like God, set
him...
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SABBATH CONTROVERSY
_Text 5:10-18_
10
So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath, and it is
not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.
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But he answered them, He that made me whole...
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EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
John 5:16-30
We present our customary Analysis of the passage which is to be before
us. It sets forth the absolute equality of the Son with the Father:—
There is an...
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Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only
had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making
himself equal with God.
THEREFORE [OR 'FOR THIS CAUSE' dia...
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10 The day on which the cure was effected indicates that its
fulfillment will find place in that great sabbatism that remains for
God's people of the Circumcision (Heb_4:9). As a pallet was a mere
bun...
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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...
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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...
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For “had broken,” read _did He break,_ and for “His Father,”
_His own Father._ They recognise as beyond doubt what He means by the
term “My Father,” and the attribute of ceaseless energy. It was a
cla...
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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...
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SABBATH WORK THAT PLEASES THE FATHER
John 5:10-18
In the foregoing incident our Lord not only healed the sufferer after
thirty-eight years of deferred hope, but did so on the Sabbath, and
bade him ca...
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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...
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Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only
had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was (c) his Father,
making himself equal with God.
(c) That is, his alone and no one...
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That God was his Father, [4] making himself equal to God. In divers
places of the Old Testament, God is called the Father of the
Israelites, and they his children: but here, and on several other
occas...
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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.”...
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VER. 18. “ _For this reason the Jews sought the more to kill him,
because he not only broke the Sabbath, but called God his own Father,
making himself equal with God._ ”
The διὰ τοῦτο (_for this reaso...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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18._For this reason, therefore, the Jews sought the more to slay him.
_This defense was so far from allaying their fury that it even enraged
them the more. Nor was he unacquainted with their malignity...
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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...
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THEREFORE THE JEWS SOUGHT THE MORE TO KILL HIM,.... They were the more
desirous to take away his life, and were more bent and resolute upon
it, and studied all ways and means how to bring it about;
B...
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Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only
had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making
himself equal with God.
Ver. 18. _The Jews sought the more_]...
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_Jesus answered_ “By _the Jews_, who in the preceding verses are
said to have persecuted Jesus, we are to understand the rulers, as
appears from John 5:33, where Jesus, speaking to the persons who
sou...
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THEREFORE THE JEWS SOUGHT THE MORE TO KILL HIM, BECAUSE HE NOT ONLY
HAD BROKEN THE SABBATH, BUT SAID ALSO THAT GOD WAS HIS FATHER, MAKING
HIMSELF EQUAL WITH GOD....
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THE RELATION BETWEEN THE FATHER AND THE SON.
Jesus gives the Jews an answer:...
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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...
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17-23 The Divine power of the miracle proved Jesus to be the Son of
God, and he declared that he worked with, and like unto his Father, as
he saw good. These ancient enemies of Christ understood him,...
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OLBGrk;
This yet enraged the Jews more: they had before against him a charge
of breaking the sabbath, or, at least, teaching another to break it
(in their opinion); but now he had (as they judged) spo...
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Tertullian On Repentance
Chapter V.-Sin Never to Be Returned to After Repentance.[38]...
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THE HEALING OF THE DISABLED MAN AT THE POOL (JOHN 5:1).
When John recounts an incident in the life of Jesus we must always ask
what it is intended to illustrate, for he always has a purpose in
mind. H...
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‘But Jesus answered them, “My Father works even until now, and I
work”.
Jesus' reply to the charge of breaking the Sabbath is a powerful one.
‘My Father is still at work, and I also am working'. No on...
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. ‘This was why the Jews sought the more to kill Him (i.e. to plot
His death) because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God
‘His own Father' (patera idion) making Himself equal with God'....
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With the beginning of this chapter we enter upon the fourth and
leading division of the Gospel, extending to the close of chap. 12.
Its object is to set Jesus forth in the height of His conflict with...
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John 5:18. FOR THIS CAUSE THEREFORE THE JEWS SOUGHT THE MORE TO KILL
HIM, BECAUSE HE NOT ONLY BROKE THE SABBATH, BUT ALSO CALLED GOD HIS
OWN FATHER, MAKING HIMSELF EQUAL WITH GOD. The Jews do not fail...
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SOUGHT THE MORE
(μαλλον εζητουν). Imperfect active of ζητεω, graphic
picture of increased and untiring effort "to kill him" (αυτον
αποκτεινα, first aorist active, to kill him off and be done
with hi...
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HIS FATHER
(Greek, "patēr", "his own Father"). The Jews understood perfectly
that Jesus was claiming to be God.
Compare (John 10:33)....
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John 5:1. _After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up
to Jerusalem._
For he had respect to the Law. As long as the Law lasted, Christ
observed it. Oh, that we were as careful to obey...
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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...
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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...
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THIS SAYING MADE THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES. They are horrified! Not only
has he "kicked" their Tradition by healing on the Sabbath, but he said
God was _his own Father!_ This was blasphemy to them!...
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_After this there was a feast of the Jews_
THE POOL OF BETHESDA, A TYPE OF FAVOURED LOCALITIES IN A RELIGIOUS
COMMUNITY IN WHICH THE HIGHEST MIRACULOUS AID HAS NOT YET APPEARED
The miraculous aid is...
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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....
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1-47
CHAPTER 5
_After these things,_ &c. Observe, John here omits many things which
Christ did in Galilee, but which Matthew records from the 4th to the
12th chapter of his Gospel. For what Matthew...
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_Wherefore_, &c. _His Father_, Greek, _πατέζα ίδιον_,.
_i.e._, _His own Father_, because Christ alone is the peculiar, and by
nature, Son of God.
_Making Himself equal with God_, because He had said t...
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_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_
“Up to the present time our Lord has offered Himself to typical
representatives of the whole Jewish race at Jerusalem, in Judæa, in
Samaria, and in Galilee, in such a...
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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
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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...
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John 10:30; John 10:33; John 14:23; John 14:9; John 5:23;...
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Had broken [ε λ υ ε]. Literally, was loosing : the imperfect
tense. See on He did, ver. 16. Not, broke the Sabbath in any
particular case, but was annulling the law and duty of Sabbath
observance.
Hi...
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His own Father — The Greek word means his own Father in such a sense
as no creature can speak. Making himself equal with God — It is
evident all the hearers so understood him, and that our Lord never...
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Observe here, The Jews instead of being satisfied, were the more
enraged; not only because he had violated the sabbath (as they
pretended) by healing the cripple on the sabbath-day, but because
Christ...