Robertson's Word Pictures of the NT
John 1:24
They had been sent
(απεσταλμενο ησαν). Periphrastic past perfect passive of αποστελλω.From the Pharisees
(εκ των Φαρισαιων). As the source (εκ) of the committee of Sadducees (verse John 1:19).
They had been sent
(απεσταλμενο ησαν). Periphrastic past perfect passive of αποστελλω.From the Pharisees
(εκ των Φαρισαιων). As the source (εκ) of the committee of Sadducees (verse John 1:19).
WERE OF THE PHARISEES - For an account of this sect, see the notes at Matthew 3:7. Why they are particularly mentioned is not certainly known. Many of the “Sadducees” came to his baptism Matthew 3:7,...
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OF THE PHARISEES. The messengers were not only of the religious tribe, but of the strictest of Jewish sects. The Pharisees were far more attentive to external rites than any other class, and as the n...
THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
This is the witness of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him: "Who are you?" He quite definitely affirmed and stated: "I am not the Messiah." So they asked him:...
WERE. had been. PHARISEES. App-120....
The Testimony of the Baptist 19 28. His Testimony to the Deputation from Jerusalem This section describes a crisis in the Baptist's ministry. He had already attracted the attention of the Sanhedrin....
_And they which_, &c. Perhaps the better reading is, _and_ THERE HAD BEEN SENT SOME OF THE PHARISEES. S. John mentions neither Sadducees nor Herodians; only the Pharisees, the sect most opposed to Chr...
24. ἈΠΕΣΤΑΛΜΈΝΟΙ ἮΣΑΝ. The οἱ before the participle is of doubtful authority. Omitting it, we translate _And they had been sent from the Pharisees_, or better (as we have ἘΚ and not παρά), _and_ THERE...
19–37. _The Testimony of the Baptist_, (α) to the deputation from Jerusalem, (β) to the people, (γ) to Andrew and John, John 1:31-51. _The Testimony of the Disciples:_ John 2:1-11 _The Testimony of th...
THE TESTIMONY TO THE DEPUTATION FROM JERUSALEM 19–28. This section describes a crisis in the ministry of the Baptist. He had already attracted the attention of the Sanhedrin. It was a time of exciteme...
VER 24. AND THEY WHICH WERE SENT WERE OF THE PHARISEES. 25. AND THEY ASKED HIM, AND SAID TO HIM, WHY BAPTIZE YOU THEN, IF YOU BE NOT THAT CHRIST, NOR ELIAS, NEITHER THAT PROPHET? 26. JOHN ANSWERED THE...
_THE ETERNAL WORD WAS LIFTED UP BY JOHN -- (JOHN 1:19-34)_ John was a witness who lifted up God's Eternal Word. (John 1:19-28) John the Baptist was "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make str...
ΑΠΕΣΤΑΛΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass. part., см._ John 1:6....
JOHN'S ANSWER _Text 1:23-28_ 23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet. 24 And they had been sent from the Pharisee...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:19-34 Following our usual custom, we begin by submitting an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us. In it we have:— 1. The Jews’ inquiry of John, a...
And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. AND THEY WHICH WERE SENT WERE OF THE PHARISEES. Since the Sadducees could hardly be expected to take much interest in such matters, this explanation...
Government and education are still the panaceas proposed by the majority of priest-craft. But John wisely withdraws himself from their notice, and as the Voice, heralds the coming of the Messiah Himse...
AND THEY] RV 'and they had been sent from the Pharisees.'...
PUBLIC TESTIMONY OF THE BAPTIST TO JESUS IN REPLY TO A DEPUTATION FROM THE SANHEDRIN. The independence and fulness of the account of the Baptist in this Gospel renders it highly probable that the evan...
THE DIVINITY AND INCARNATION OF THE WORD. WITNESS OF JOHN. THE FIRST DISCIPLES 1-18. Preface, declaring (1) that the Word was God, (2) that He was made man, (3) that He revealed the Father. This subl...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ THE AUTHOR Most people agree that John, Jesus’ *disciple, wrote the 4th *Gospel. John’s father was called Zebedee. And John had...
THEY WHICH WERE SENT. — The best MSS. omit the relative, and the verse thus becomes, “And they had been sent from the Pharisees.” (For account of the Pharisees, see Note on Matthew 3:7.) The statement...
John 1:15 CHAPTER 3 THE BAPTIST'S TESTIMONY. “There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe throug...
The witness of John to the deputation from Jerusalem, entitled αὕτη ἐστὶν … Λευείτας. The witness or testimony of John is placed first, not only because it was that which influenced the evangelist him...
_The witness of John and its result_....
καὶ ἀπεσταλμένοι ἦσαν ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων. This gives us the meaning “And they had been sent from,” which is not so congruous with the context as “And they who were sent were of the Pharisees”; because a...
THE VOICE OF PROMISE John 1:14-28 Note that the Revised Version changes the words was _made_ to _became,_ John 1:14. Evidently Jesus had existed before this becoming; and evidently there was a proces...
The Gospel of John brings us into the profoundest facts concerning the Person of Jesus. The first eighteen verses constitute the introduction to the whole Book. The main declaration is found by bringi...
(12) And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. (12) Christ is the author of baptism, and not John: and therefore the authority of this does not come from John, who is the minister, but wholly f...
TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST John 1:6-51. _“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, that he may testify concerning the Light, in order that all may believe th...
FIRST SECTION: 1:19-37. THE TESTIMONIES OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. These testimonies are three in number and were given on three successive days (see John 1:29; John 1:35, “ _the next day_).” These three da...
VER. 24. “ _And those who were sent were of the Pharisees._ ” We translate according to the T. R., which is in conformity with the majority of the Mjj., with the Mnn., and with the greater part of the...
II. SECOND TESTIMONY: VV. 29-34. How can we comprehend the fact that the deputies of the Sanhedrim left John without asking him who the person was of whom he intended to speak? Either they did not car...
I. FIRST TESTIMONY: JOHN 1:19-28. In unfolding in the Prologue the contents of faith, the apostle had adduced two testimonies of John the Baptist (John 1:6-8 and John 1:15); the second contains, as _B...
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. (16) And of his fulness have all we received, and grace...
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...
24._Were of the Pharisees_. He says that they were _Pharisees_, who at that time held the highest rank in the Church; and he says so in order to inform us, that they were not some contemptible persons...
The first chapter asserts what He was before all things, and the different characters in which He is a blessing to man, being made flesh. He is, and He is the expression of, the whole mind that subsis...
AND THEY WHICH WERE SENT WERE OF THE PHARISEES. Who were the straitest sect of religion among the Jews; were very zealous of the traditions of the elders, and professed an expectation of the Messiah;...
And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Ver. 24. _Were of the Pharisees_] Men of renown in the congregation, for more authority' sake: and such as by their office were to inquire into new doc...
_They which were sent were of the Pharisees_ Who were peculiarly tenacious of old customs, and jealous of any innovations, (except those brought in by their own scribes,) unless the innovator had unqu...
The question concerning John's baptism:...
AND THEY WHICH WERE SENT WERE OF THE PHARISEES....
CHRIST THE LIVING WORD (vs.1-5) Revelation 19:13, speaking of the Lord Jesus, says, "His name is called the Word of God." As such He had no beginning: in the beginning He was there. In person He is...
19-28 John disowns himself to be the Christ, who was now expected and waited for. He came in the spirit and power of Elias, but he was not the person of Elias. John was not that Prophet whom Moses sa...
Who these Pharisees were hath been before explained in our notes on MATTHEW 3:7. They were of the strictest sect of the Jewish religion, ACTS 26:5. The greatest part of their councils was made up of t...
Origen Commentary on John Book VI And they that were sent were of the Pharisees. And they asked him, and said unto him,[83] Origen Commentary on John Book VI " And John practises a similar abbreviat...
John 1:24 Now G2532 who G3588 sent G649 (G5772) were G2258 (G5713) from G1537 Pharisees G5330 were of -...
‘And they had been sent from the Pharisees'. The Pharisees were probably the most influential religious group in the eyes of the common people. They had originated from the Hasidim, the ‘separated one...
JOHN THE BAPTISER'S TESTIMONY TO JESUS AND THE CALLING OF DISCIPLES (JOHN 1:19). The portrayal of John the Baptiser by the writer is in interesting contrast to the John the Baptiser portrayed in the o...
We enter here upon the second great division of the Gospel, extending from John 1:19 to John 2:11, and containing the presentation of Jesus, as He takes His place in the field of human history and, al...
John 1:24. AND SOME FROM AMONG THE PHARISEES HAD BEEN SENT. We cannot doubt that these words are introduced to lead on to the following statement, rather than to give completeness to the account of th...
John 1:19 The Ministry of John the Baptist. From the ministry of John the Baptist we may learn I. That when Jesus is about to visit a community in His saving power, His coming is generally preceded...
John 1:19. _And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ._ «I...
John 1:19. And this in the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they...
John 1:15. _John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me._ He was not before John in the order of hum...
John is the majestic Evangelist; he is the high-soaring eagle with the piercing eye. His is the Gospel of the Son of God. John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the...
May the Holy Spirit, who inspired these words, inspire us through them as we read them! John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ The divine Logos, whom we know as the Christ of God. «In the beginn...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word,_ Christ the Word has existed from all eternity. He is the eternal Son of the eternal Father; he is really what Melchisedec was metaphorically, «having neithe...
CONTENTS: Deity of Christ. Ministry of John the Baptist. Jesus announced as the Lamb of God, and the first converts to Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, John the Baptist, Moses, Elias, Isaiah, Pharisees,...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ Εν αρχη ο λογος. John begins the new creation with the words of Moses of the old creation, and continues to speak of Christ in the running language of all th...
THE MESSENGERS HAD BEEN SENT BY THE PHARISEES. See notes On Matthew 3:7....
_They which were sent were of the Pharisees_ THE QUESTION OF THE PHARISEES 1. It is an evidence of a sick and corrupt Church when corrupt men are entrusted with most grave and weighty employments i...
_The record of John_ _ I._ AN INSTRUCTIVE EXAMPLE OF TRUE HUMILITY. 1. John was an eminent saint of God (Matthew 11:11; John 5:35),yet we see him lowly and self-abased. (1) He refuses the honour w...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:24 PHARISEES. A small but influential group of Jews who emphasized observance of the law and their own traditions as the path to righteousness. Many Pharisees opposed Jesus, but so...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:19 Signs of the Messiah, with Teaching about Life in Him. The first half of John’s Gospel features Jesus’ demonstration of his messianic identity through several selected “signs” ...
THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO JOHN. T HIS is the title in the Greek and Latin codices. In the Syriac it is as follows, _The Holy Gospel, the Preaching of Jouchanon_ (John), _which...
_ Was made_ : not that the Word was changed into flesh, or flesh into the Word, for, as S. Chrysostom says, "far from that immortal nature is transmutation." For how could flesh become God, that is, h...
_And they that were sent_, &c. John adds this, to suggest the occasion why they examined John the Baptist concerning baptism. These messengers who were sent to John were Pharisees, and therefore were...
PART II. (A.) Chapter S John 1:19 to John 4:54 I. THE MANIFESTATION OF THE WORD AS LIGHT AMONG THOSE PREPARED TO RECEIVE HIM (John 1:19) 1. The testimony of John the Baptist: (1) he is not the Chri...
EXPOSITION THE title of the book is differently given in the manuscripts and ancient versions, and the differences are so considerable that they cannot be referred to the original text. The simplest f...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the gospel according to John. The gospel of John was the last of the gospels that were written. It was written towards the close of that first century, written by John,...
Acts 23:8; Acts 26:5; John 3:1; John 3:2; John 7:47;...
They who were sent were of the Pharisees — Who were peculiarly tenacious of old customs, and jealous of any innovation (except those brought in by their own scribes) unless the innovator had unquestio...