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Verse 29. _THE PEOPLE - SAID THAT IT THUNDERED: OTHERS - AN ANGEL_
_SPAKE TO HIM._] Bishop _Pearce_ says, Probably there was thunder as
well as a voice, as in Exodus 19:16-2, and some persons, who wer...
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THE PEOPLE - A part of the people.
IT THUNDERED - The unexpected sound of the voice would confound and
amaze them; and though there is no reason to doubt that the words were
spoken distinctly Matthew...
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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. ...
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THE REQUEST OF THE GREEKS. This incident is chosen to illustrate the
Lord's consciousness that only through death could the final success
of His work be brought about. If it was invented to gain His a...
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AN ANGEL SPAKE TO HIM.
All heard the sound of the divine voice, but it was not clear to all
what it was. Like those who were with Saul of Tarsus when on the way
to Damascus, they heard, but did not c...
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"Now, my soul is troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, rescue me
from this hour.' But it was for this reason that I came to this hour.
Father, glorify your name." A voice came from heaven: "I have...
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LOVE'S EXTRAVAGANCE (John 12:1-8)...
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THUNDERED, &c. They heard. sound, but could not distinguish what it
was. Compare Acts 9:4; Acts 22:9....
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_The people … thundered … spake_ Better, _The_ MULTITUDE … HAD
_thundered …_ HATH SPOKEN....
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The Judgment of Men
Note the dramatic contrast between the different sections of this
division; the devotion of Mary and the enmity of the hierarchy,
Christ's triumph and the Pharisees" discomfiture,...
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THE JUDGMENT OF MEN
Note the dramatic contrast between the different sections of this
division; the devotion of Mary and the enmity of the priests,
Christ’s triumph and the Pharisees’ discomfiture, t...
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THE DESIRE OF THE GENTILES AND THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN...
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27. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me
from this hour? But for this cause came I to this hour. 28. Father,
glorify your name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I...
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_SOME GREEKS WANTED TO SEE JESUS -- JOHN 12:20-43:_ Some Greeks had
gone to Jerusalem to worship during Passover. They said to Philip,
"Sir, we would see Jesus." Philip told Andrew and together they t...
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THE PEOPLE THEREFORE—SAID THAT IT THUNDERED:— The sound of this
voice was evidently supernatural, being strong and loud as thunder;
but at the same time so articulate that all who heard Jesus address...
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THE MAGNETIC CROSS
_Text 12:27-36_
27
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from
this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour.
28
Father, glorify thy name. There c...
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EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
CHAPTER 43
John 12:20-36
The following is a suggested Analysis of the passage which is to be
before us:—
The end of our Lord’s public ministry had almost been reach...
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The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it
thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
THE PEOPLE [`THE MULTITUDE' ochlos (G3793 )] THEREFORE THAT STOOD BY,
AND HEARD IT, SA...
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7 While facing the terrible ordeal of death our Lord found no
fellowship with His disciples in the sorrows before Him. Like Peter,
they could not entertain such a thought. But it seems that Mary alone...
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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...
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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...
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THE PEOPLE.... SAID THAT IT THUNDERED. — Better, _the multitude._
Nothing could be stronger testimony to the fact that this narrative
was written by one who was present at the events of which he tells...
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IV. _ THE ATTRACTIVE FORCE OF THE CROSS._
"Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from
this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify
Thy name. There came...
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_The Greeks inquire for Jesus_....
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Ὁ οὖν ὄχλος … λελάληκεν. The mass of the people
which was standing by and heard the voice did not recognise it as a
voice, but said it thundered. Others caught, if not the words, yet
enough to perceiv...
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SACRIFICE A LAW OF LIFE
John 12:20-29
These were genuine Greeks. The East came to the manger-bed; the West
to the Cross. These men came to Philip probably because of his Greek
name. The inarticulate...
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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...
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THE GREEKS COME TO SEE JESUS
John 12:20-36. _“And there were certain Greeks of those having come
up that they may worship during the festival; then they came to
Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galil...
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VV. 28B, 29. “ _Whereupon there came a voice from heaven, I have
both glorified it and I will glorify it again._ 29. _The multitude
therefore that stood by and heard it, said that it thundered; others...
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III. THE LAST SCENE IN THE TEMPLE: JOHN 12:20-36.
Of all the events which occurred between Palm-day and Thursday
evening, the evening before the Passion, John mentions but one, which
is omitted by th...
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SECOND SECTION: 12:1-36. THE LAST DAYS OF THE MINISTRY OF JESUS.
This section includes three parts: 1. The supper of Jesus at Bethany:
John 12:1 to John 11:2. His entry into Jerusalem: John 12:12 to...
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Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from
this hour, but for this cause came I unto this hour. (28) Father,
glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I h...
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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...
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_VOICES OF GOD_
‘The people therefore, that stood by … An angel spake to Him.’
John 12:29
We know the group who thus failed to recognise the voice of
God—Jews, Greeks, unbelieving priests, etc. No...
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29._That it thundered. _It was truly monstrous, that the assembled
multitude were unmoved by so evident a miracle. Some are so deaf, that
they hear as a confused sound what God had distinctly pronounc...
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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...
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THE PEOPLE THEREFORE THAT STOOD BY AND HEARD [IT],.... Some more
confusedly, who were farthest off; others more distinctly, who were
nearer: the first of these,
SAID THAT IT THUNDERED; as it used to...
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The people therefore, that stood by, and heard _it_, said that it
thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
Ver. 29. _That it thundered; others said, An angel, &c._] But the
apostles and some fe...
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_Father, glorify thy name_ Whatever I suffer. For this may be
considered as a further expression of his resignation, importing that
he was willing to submit to whatever the Father should judge necessa...
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THE PEOPLE THEREFORE THAT STOOD BY AND HEARD IT SAID THAT IT
THUNDERED; OTHERS SAID, AN ANGEL SPAKE TO HIM....
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The manner of Christ's glorification:...
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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...
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27-33 The sin of our souls was the troubled of Christ's soul, when he
undertook to redeem and save us, and to make his soul an offering for
our sin. Christ was willing to suffer, yet prayed to be sav...
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THE PEOPLE SAID THAT IT THUNDERED; nor, it may be, were they mistaken,
saving only in this, that they thought it was nothing else but thunder
(being possibly at such a distance, as they could not dist...
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John 12:29 Therefore G3767 people G3793 by G2476 (G5761) and G2532
heard G191 (G5660) said G3004 ...
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‘The crowd standing around, heard it and were saying it thundered.
Others were saying, “an angel spoke to him”.
The actual words of the thunderous cry from Heaven were not understood
by the crowd, alt...
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Jesus has been doomed to death (John 11:53; John 11:57), and the hour
is at hand when He shall be seized, and the sentence executed. But the
malice of man cannot interfere with the purposes of God. In...
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John 12:29. THE MULTITUDE THEREFORE, THAT STOOD BY, AND HEARD IT, SAID
THAT IT HAD THUNDERED: OTHERS SAID, AN ANGEL HATH SPOKEN TO HIM. That
a real voice had been heard is obvious from the fact that t...
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THAT IT HAD THUNDERED
(βροντην γεγονενα). Perfect active infinitive of
γινομα in indirect discourse after ελεγεν and the
accusative of general reference (βροντην, thunder, as in Mark
3:17), "that t...
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ANGEL
(_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
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John 12:29
Misinterpretation of the Voice of God
I. When we read the history of our Blessed Lord's first coming into
the world, and thoroughly realise who He was that came, it is almost
impossible no...
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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...
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John 12:1. _Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead._
The days Christ was to spend upon the earth were getting to...
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John 12:12. On the next day much people that were come to the feast,
when they beard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of
palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Bl...
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Our Lord raised Lazarus from the dead; and this miracle made a great
sensation among the people. They came to meet Jesus, waving palm
branches before him, and all Jerusalem was on a stir.
John 12:19....
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Our Lord had raised Lazarus from the dead, and this miracle had
excited great attention in Jerusalem. In consequence of this, the
people had led him in triumph through the streets, and everywhere
ther...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AN ANGEL SPOKE TO HIM. All heard the sound of the voice, but could not
identify it. They knew only that it was something supernormal!...
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_Father, glorify Thy name_
THE GLORIFIED NAME
1_._
One important aspect of Christian life is the imitation of Christ. But
this is not necessarily doing the same things that Christ did, but
involves...
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_Now is My soul troubled._
This struggle is like one of those fissures in its crust which enables
science to fathom the bowels of the earth. It lets us read the very
inmost depths of our Lord’s being...
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_And there came certain Greeks;…the same came therefore to Philip
… saying, Sir, we would see Jesus_
THE INCIDENT AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE
These Greeks belonged to those numerous Gentiles who, like the...
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JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:29 CROWD... SAID THAT IT HAD THUNDERED. Events
of eternal consequence are occurring. Unbelievers misinterpret them as
natural events, showing their spiritual blindness....
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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...
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CHAPTER 12
Ver. 1. _Then Jesus six days before the Passover_, &c. He came from
Ephraim, as the Passover was drawing on when He was to die. And He
came to Bethany to prepare Himself for it; nay m...
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_The people therefore that stood by, and heard it_ (this trumpet voice
of God the Father) _said that it thundered._ Because it was very loud
and resonant. Or perhaps because it was not articulate, but...
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_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_
John 12:20. Certain Greeks coming with a desire to see Him gave our
Lord an opportunity of pointing to His atoning work as the hope of
salvation for all men, _i.e._ t...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 23:8; Acts 23:9; Exodus 19:16; Exodus 20:18; Ezekiel 10:5;...
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THE HOUR IS COME
John 12:20
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We read in our opening verses that the Greeks who had come up to the
feast desired to see Jesus. They told Philip, Philip told Andrew, and
then Andrew...
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The multitude who stood and heard — A sound, but not the distinct
words — In the most glorious revelations there may remain something
obscure, to exercise our faith. Said, It thundered — Thunder did
f...
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Observe here, 1. The way of God in speaking to his people by. voice in
thunder for the greater declaration of his glory and majesty.
Thunderings and lightnings usually attended the voice of God, even...