διά τοΰτο (G1223; G3778) поэтому; ποτοму что человек сказал, что исцелил его Иисус. έδίωκον impf. ind. act. от διώκω (G1377) преследовать. Inch, impf., "они начали преследовать". Здесь намечается переход от простого колебания по поводу Христа к враждебности и, наконец, к Его официальному осуждению (Carson, 240).
έποίει impf. ind. act. от ποιέω делать. Impf. может быть inch. (Morris) или, скорее, обыденным: "Он имел привычку делать" (Westcott).
Verse John 5:16. _AND SOUGHT TO SLAY HIM_] This clause is omitted by BCDL, some others, and several ancient _versions_. _Griesbach_ has left it out of the text; and Professor _White_ says, _certissim...
PERSECUTED JESUS - They opposed him; attempted to ruin his character; to destroy his popularity; and probably held him up before the people as a violator of the law of God. Instead of making inquiry w...
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...
THE JEWS PERSECUTE JESUS. The word is literally rendered "pursued Jesus." At once they hunted him and attacked him. They did not at first "seek to slay him." This is omitted by the Revision and does n...
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...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
THEREFORE. on account of (Greek. _dia._ App-104.John 5:2; John 5:2) this. DID... PERSECUTE = began to persecute. Beginning of open hostility. SOUGHT. were seeking. Most texts, not Syriac, omit this...
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...
_And therefore_ Better, _And on this account_, or, _and_ FOR THIS CAUSE (John 12:18; John 12:27). It is not St John's favourite particle -therefore." but a preposition and pronoun. Comp. John 5:18. an...
16. Omit καὶ ἐζήτουν αὐτὸν� (inserted from John 5:18) with אBCDL against A. 16. ΔΙᾺ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ. FOR THIS CAUSE. We should mark the difference between διὰ τοῦτο (John 5:18; John 6:65;...
THE SEQUEL OF THE SIGN ἮΝ ΔῈ ΣΆΒΒΑΤΟΝ. NOW ON THAT DAY WAS A SABBATH. This is the text for what follows. Jesus had proclaimed Himself Lord of the Temple (see on John 2:17); He now proclaims Himself Lo...
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...
_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...
THE MAN DEPARTED, &C.— Overjoyed to have discovered the author of his cure, the man went away, and innocently informed the Jews of it; perhaps because he thought it his duty to give his benefactor the...
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. 11 But he answered them, He that made me whole...
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...
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus and sought to slay him because he had done these things on And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these thi...
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...
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...
The words, “and sought to slay Him,” should be omitted. They have been inserted in some MSS. to explain the first clause of John 5:18. For “He had done,” read _He was doing._ The word is in the imperf...
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...
The consequence however was that “the Jews persecuted Jesus,” ἐδίωκον, not in the technical sense; but, as the imperfect also suggests, they began from this point to meditate hostile action; _cf._ Mar...
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...
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...
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.”...
VER. 16. “ _For this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus_, _because he did these things on the Sabbath day._ ” Διὰ τοῦτο (_for this cause_), resumes what precedes, and, at the same time, is explained b...
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....
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...
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...
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 THEREFORE DID THE JEWS PERSECUTE JESUS,.... With their tongues, reproaching and reviling him, as a sabbath breaker, a destroyer of the law, and a sinful wicked man: AND SOUGHT TO SLAY HIM; either...
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. Ver. 16. _Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus_] This he foreknew would foll...
_Afterward, Jesus findeth him in the temple_ The same day, probably, in which he was healed, whither, it is likely, he had repaired to return thanks to God for his signal recovery. Thus, when God has,...
AND THEREFORE DID THE JEWS PERSECUTE JESUS, AND SOUGHT TO SLAY HIM, BECAUSE HE HAD DONE THESE THINGS ON THE SABBATH-DAY. The religion of the Jews at the time of Jesus had largely become a matter of de...
The objections of the Jews:...
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...
10-16 Those eased of the punishment of sin, are in danger of returning to sin, when the terror and restraint are over, unless Divine grace dries up the fountain. The misery believers are made whole f...
But the Jews made another use of it, seeking from hence an advantage against him, because he had violated the sabbath, which they often made a capital crime....
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Sixth These have been perverted from the truth: among them there is the hope of repentance, by which it is possible to live. Corruption, then, has a hope of a kind of re...
John 5:16 For G2532 reason G1223 G5124 Jews G2453 persecuted G1377 (G5707) Jesus G2424 and G2532 sought...
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...
‘And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath'. Initially the persecution must have taken on the form of some verbal attack, as it leads on to a reply from Je...
John 5:16. AND FOR THIS CAUSE DID THE JEWS PERSECUTE JESUS, BECAUSE HE DID THESE THINGS ON THE SABBATH DAY. The man whose cure had been the occasion of the action taken by the Jews now passes from vie...
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...
PERSECUTE (εδιωκον). Inchoative imperfect, "began to persecute" and kept it up. They took this occasion as one excuse (δια τουτο, because of this). They disliked Jesus when here first (John 2:18) a...
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...
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...
FOR THIS REASON. Jesus had "kicked" their Tradition by healing the man on the Sabbath day....
_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...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:16 Jesus’ Jewish opponents put their merely human religious tradition above genuine love and compassion for others (contrast Leviticus 19:18 and Jesus’ example)....
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....
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...
_Wherefore the Jews persecuted Jesus_, &c. Some Greek MS., also the Syriac and Arabic Versions, add, _And sought to kill Him. Wherefore_, _i.e._, on this pretext, for the true cause was envy. For the...
_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...
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...
Acts 9:4; Acts 9:5; John 10:39; John 15:20; John 5:13;...
Did the Jews persecute. The imperfect tense [ε δ ι ω κ ο ν] might be rendered began to persecute, as this is an opening of hostilities against Jesus, or, more probably, corresponds with the same tense...