Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; he enjoined it, though it did not originate with him. It was appointed of God, and was practised from the days of Abraham.
Ye on the Sabbath - day circumcise; this required more labor on the Sabbath than he performed in healing a man; and as they justified the one, they ought not to condemn the other.
Verse 22. _BUT OF THE FATHERS_] That is, it came _from the_ _patriarchs_. Circumcision was not, properly speaking, one of the laws of the Mosaic institution, it having been given at first to Abraham,...
MOSES THEREFORE GAVE UNTO YOU CIRCUMCISION - Moses commanded you to circumcise your children, Leviticus 12:3. The word “therefore” in this place - literally “on account of this” - means, “Moses on thi...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. My Time is not Yet Come. (John 7:1 .)_ 2. Departure from Galilee; Sought by the Jews. (John 7:10 .) 3. In the Temple Teaching. (John 7:14 .) 4. Opposition to Him. ...
THE SECRET VISIT. Soon, however, He receives the Divine intimation, for which He always waits (_cf. John 2:4_, John 11:6 f.) and goes up secretly. The Jews are discussing Him, and various opinions are...
MOSES GAVE YOU CIRCUMCISION. The rite of circumcision, given at first to Abraham, and therefore, "of the fathers," was. part of the Mosaic law. The child was to be circumcised on the eighth day and i...
"Did not Moses give you the law--and not one of you really keeps it? Why do you try to kill me?" The crowd answered: "You are mad! Who is trying to kill you?" Jesus answered them: "I have done only on...
NOT MAN'S TIME BUT GOD'S (John 7:1-9)...
THEREFORE GAVE UNTO YOU. for this cause _(dia_. App-104.John 7:2; John 7:2] _touto)_ has given you. circumcision. Moses mentioned the precept only in Exodus 12:44;...
The remark made on the Jews" question in John 7:15 applies also to their questions and comments throughout this dialogue. They are too exactly in keeping with what we know of the Jews in our Lord's da...
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...
The Discourse at the Feast of Tabernacles Of this section John 7:10 form a sort of introduction. "An equal degree of authenticity belongs to the verses which follow, 10 15. The whispered enquiries an...
_Moses therefore gave_ Better, FOR THIS CAUSE (John 12:18; John 12:27) MOSES HATH GIVEN. Comp. John 8:47. _of Moses … of the fathers_ -Originating with Moses … originating with the fathers." Circumcis...
THE DISCOURSES AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES Of this section John 7:10-13 are introductory....
ΔΙᾺ Τ. Μ. FOR THIS CAUSE M. HATH GIVEN YOU: the perfect indicates that the gift abides, the present result of a past act. ΟΥ̓Κ ὍΤΙ. _Not_ THAT; the sentence is a parenthesis, and ὅτι does not answer t...
14–39. We have (1) a discourse in the midst of the Feast in which three groups take part; ‘the Jews’ (14–24); some of the people of Jerusalem (25–31); the envoys of the Sanhedrin (32–36): (2) a discou...
Ver 19. Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keep the law? Why go you about to kill me? 20. The people answered and said, You have devil: who goes about to kill you? 21. Jesus answered...
_JESUS ATTENDED THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES -- JOHN 7:1-24:_ Jesus kept away from the Jews who were seeking to kill Him by remaining in Galilee. The time came for the Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus quietly...
ΔΈΔΩΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ, _см._ John 7:19. ΠΕΡΙΤΟΜΉ (G4061) обрезание. Здесь это более, чем просто ритуал, имеется в виду вся работа по его подготовке и проведению (SB, 4:23-30; TDNT; RAC,...
I HAVE DONE ONE WORK, &C.— It is plain, that the miracle of Bethesda, here referred to, was wrought a year and a half before this feast; but they made use of it as a pretence to destroy him, because h...
THE OLD SABBATH CONTROVERSY RENEWED _Text 7:14-53_ 14 But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How knoweth thi...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 7:14-31 Below is an outline Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— In the last chapter we discussed the first thirteen verses of John 7, from which...
Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. MOSES THEREFORE GAVE UNTO YOU - or, 'For this cause hath M...
16 Here we have the test of a true teacher. The greatest of all Teachers could easily have formulated a philosophy of His own before which all the wisdom of the ages would sink into insignificance. He...
7:22 gave (c-3) Or 'wonder because of this. Moses gave.' that (d-7) Or 'because' and omit ( )....
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES John 7:1 to John 10:21. Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles, October, 28 a.d. After the discourse of John 6, delivered just before Passover 28 a.d., Jesus did not go up to Jeru...
NOT BECAUSE] RV 'not that.'...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 7 JESUS AND HIS BROTHERS 7:1-9 V1 After this, Jesus stayed in *Galilee. He travelled from village to village. He decide...
MOSES THEREFORE GAVE UNTO YOU CIRCUMCISION. — Some MSS., and many editors, place the “therefore,” or, _on this account,_ at the close of the last verse, reading, “Ye all marvel on this account,” and t...
CHAPTER 16 JESUS DISCUSSED IN JERUSALEM. “And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for He would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him. Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of...
_He teaches, and discussions regarding Him are evoked_. John 7:37 -end. _His manifestation on the last day of the Feast, and the consequent action of the Sanhedrim_. John 7:14-36. _The teaching of Jes...
HOW TO KNOW THE TRUTH OF JESUS' WORD John 7:14-24 Jesus now went up to the feast, not because he was prompted by the worldly policy suggested by His brethren, but because He was led by His Father's...
So far, John has recorded incidents in the first year of our Lord's ministry. We now come to a comparatively brief section in which he records happenings happenings in the central and crowded two year...
APOSTASY OF THE JEWISH CHURCH John 7:19-23. _“Did not Moses give you the law? and no one of you keeps the law.”_ Do you not see the utter collapse and failure of their religion, as neither priest nor...
II. DURING THE FEAST: 7:14-36. The first agitation had subsided; every one was quietly attending to the celebration of the feast, when all at once Jesus appears in the temple and sets Himself to the...
THIRD SECTION: 7:1-8:59. THE STRIFE AT ITS HIGHEST STAGE OF INTENSITY AT JERUSALEM. Seven months had elapsed without any appearance of Jesus at Jerusalem. The exasperation of the rulers, whose murdero...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 14-24. 1. There is, apparently, an abrupt turn in the narrative at John 7:14, if we look only at the outward form of the story. But, when the following ve...
“ _Has not Moses given you the law? And yet no one of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?_ 20. _The multitude answered and said: Thou art possessed by a demon; who is seeking to kill thee?_...
But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. (11) Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? (12) And there was muc...
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...
22._Therefore Moses gave you circumcision _The particle _therefore _appears to be unsuitable; and, accordingly, some take διὰ τούτο (_on this account_, or _therefore_) in the sense of διὰ τούτο, (_bec...
In chapter 7 His brethren after the flesh, still sunk in unbelief, would have Him shew Himself to the world, if He did these great things; but the time for this was not yet come. At the fulfilment of...
MOSES THEREFORE GAVE UNTO YOU CIRCUMCISION,.... The command of circumcision, which he renewed and established, Leviticus 12:3; (NOT BECAUSE, OR THAT IT IS OF MOSES; originally, or that he was the fir...
Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. Ver. 22. _Moses therefore_] _Tam severus sabbati exactor, _ A...
_Jesus answered, I have done one_ good _work, and ye all marvel_ I have done a miracle of an extraordinary kind on the sabbath day, an action which ye think inconsistent with the character of a good m...
MOSES THEREFORE GAVE UNTO YOU CIRCUMCISION; (NOT BECAUSE IT IS OF MOSES, BUT OF THE FATHERS;) AND YE ON THE SABBATH-DAY CIRCUMCISE A MAN....
A reference to the healing of the sick man:...
HIS BROTHERS UNBELIEVING (vs.1-9) The Lord continued for a time in Galilee. He would not then return to Judea because of the Jews' murderous intentions. This was certainly not fear, but sober, lowly...
14-24 Every faithful minister may humbly adopt Christ's words. His doctrine is not his own finding out, but is from God's word, through the teaching of his Spirit. And amidst the disputes which distu...
OLBGrk; The particle _therefore, _ or, for this, dia touto, maketh in this verse a great difficulty, what the meaning of it should be. The most probable account of it is, that it belongeth to the form...
Victorinus On the Creation of the World which Sabbath He in His body abolished, although, nevertheless, He had formerly Himself commanded Moses that circumcision should not pass over the eighth day,...
John 7:22 Moses G3475 therefore G1223 G5124 gave G1325 (G5758) you G5213 circumcision G4061 not G3756...
JESUS TEACHES OPENLY IN THE TEMPLE AND PLEADS FOR RIGHT JUDGMENT (JOHN 7:14). But whilst Jesus was taking every precaution He knew that He could not allow His own safety to hinder the proclamation of...
“This is why I tell you that Moses has given you circumcision, not that it is of Moses but of the fathers, and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man. If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so th...
John 7:22. FOR THIS CAUSE HATH MOSES GIVEN YOU THE CIRCUMCISION (NOT THAT IT IS OF MOSES BUT OF THE FATHERS), AND YE ON THE SABBATH DAY CIRCUMCISE A MAN. The very law was intended to teach them the fu...
In this section Jesus appears at the feast to which He went up when His Father's, and therefore His own, hour was come. The opportunity afforded by it of teaching is embraced, and we are presented wit...
FOR THIS CAUSE (δια τουτο). Some would take this phrase with the preceding verb θαυμαζετε (ye marvel for this cause).HATH GIVEN (δεδωκεν). Present active indicative of διδωμ (permanent state).NOT...
BUT OF THE FATHERS (Genesis 17:10). (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 12:1). _...
John 7:14. _Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught._ He was no coward, so he boldly showed himself in the midst of the throng in the temple. John 7:15. _And the J...
CONTENTS: Jesus urged to go to the feast. His final departure from Galilee. Jesus at the feast of tabernacles. Prophecy concerning the Holy Spirit. CHARACTERS: God. Jesus, Holy Spirit, disciples, bro...
John 7:1. _He would not walk in Jewry,_ or Judea, _because the jews sought to kill him._ Herod had recently beheaded John, pleading the magnitude of his auditories; now, the jews magnified the same pl...
YOU WILL CIRCUMCISE A BOY ON THE SABBATH. His reasoning goes like this: "You are angry with me because I healed a man on the Sabbath; yet you yourself violate the Sabbath to circumcise a boy when the...
_Did not Moses give you the law?_ MURDER IN DESIRE The desire to kill Christ I. WAS INCONSISTENT WITH THEIR RELIGIOUS PROFESSION. They professedly believed in Moses, and esteemed him highly. But th...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 7:22 This recalls Genesis 17:9 (THE FATHERS, that is, Abraham) and Leviticus 12
CHAPTER 7 _But after this Jesus walked in Galilee_, &c. Not immediately, but about six months after. The incidents of the former chapter took place in March, the feast of tabernacles was in September....
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 7:14. NOW ABOUT THE MIDST, ETC.—The middle of the feast, or “the lesser feast.” It was the fourth day of the feast most likely. TAUGHT.—For the first time (of whi...
EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10. contain the record of the conflict between faith and unbelief in the metropolis. At first the narrative indicates a vast amount of critical inquiry, of unsettled opinion, of angry...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of the gospel according to John. After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him...
Galatians 3:17; Genesis 17:10; Leviticus 12:3; Romans 4:9...
Moses gave you circumcision — The sense is, because Moses enjoined you circumcision (though indeed it was far more ancient than him) you think it no harm to circumcise a man on the Sabbath: and are ye...