Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
John 1:46
Can there any, &c. Figure of speech Parcemia.
out of. Greek. ek. App-104.
Can there any, &c. Figure of speech Parcemia.
out of. Greek. ek. App-104.
Verse 46. _CAN THERE ANY GOOD THING COME OUT OF NAZARETH?_] Bp. Pearce supposes that the τι αγαθον of the evangelist has some particular force in it: for, in Jeremiah 33:14, God says, I will perform...
CAN ANY GOOD THING ... - The character of Nazareth was proverbially bad. To be a Galilean or a Nazarene was an expression of decided contempt, John 7:52. See the notes at Matthew 2:23. Nathanael asked...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word; His Glory and His Manifestation -- Chapter 1:1-2:22 CHAPTER 1 __ 1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
THE BAPTIST'S DISCIPLES AND JESUS. On the morrow to two of his disciples John bears similar witness. The account in its details suggests the recollections of one to whom the incident bad been the turn...
NATHANAEL SAID... CAN THERE ANY GOOD THING COME OUT OF NAZARETH? The Jews of Jerusalem despised Galilee and scornfully rejected the Galilean teacher, while the rest of Galilee seems to have despised N...
THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
On the next day Jesus determined to go away to Galilee; and there he found Philip. Jesus said to him: "Follow me!" Now Philip came from Bethsaida, which was the town from which Andrew and Peter came....
_Can there any good thing_, &c. All Galileans were despised for their want of culture, their rude dialect, and contact with Gentiles. They were to the Jews what Bœotians were to the Athenians. But her...
THE TESTIMONY OF DISCIPLES This section falls into two divisions, each occupying a day; (1) the call of Andrew, John, Peter, and perhaps James; (2) that of Philip and Nathanael. Of these Peter and Ja...
PHILIP AND NATHANAEL...
ΕὙΡΊΣΚΕΙ Φ. Thus the spiritual λαμπαδηφορία proceeds: the receivers of the sacred light hand it on to others, _Et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt_ (Lucr. ii. 77). ΝΑΘΑΝΑΉΛ = ‘Gift of God.’ The na...
VER 43. THE DAY FOLLOWING JESUS WOULD GO FORTH INTO GALILEE, AND FINDS PHILIP, AND SAID TO HIM, FOLLOW ME. 44. NOW PHILIP WAS OF BETHSAIDA, THE CITY OF ANDREW AND PETER 45. PHILIP FINDS NATHANIEL, AND...
_THE ETERNAL WORD KNOWS THE HEARTS OF MEN -- JOHN 1:43-51:_ The Lord knows both a Philip and a Nathanael. (John 1:43-51) With the simple words "follow me" Philip was called to Jesus. Nathanael was mov...
ΤΙ ΑΓΑΘΌΝ что-л. хорошее. Насмешливый вопрос (Barrett), связанный с невысокой репутацией Назарета, ΈΡΧΟΥ _praes. imper. med. (dep.), см._ John 1:7. Imper. выражает скорее приглашение, чем приказ. _Pr...
DISCOURSE: 1603 EVIL, AND CURE, OF PREJUDICE John 1:46. _Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see_. KNOWLEDGE is not given to any ma...
CAN THERE ANY GOOD THING COME OUT OF NAZARETH?— Philip, not knowing that Jesus was born at Bethlehem, calls him _Jesus of Nazareth:_ upon which occasion Nathanael applies a proverb, by which the rest...
THE CALL OF PHILIP AND NATHANAEL _Text 1:43-51_ 43 On the morrow he was minded to go forth into Galilee, and he findeth Philip: and Jesus saith unto him, Follow me. 44 Now Philip was from Bethsai...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:35-51 We first submit a brief Analysis of the passage which is to be before us. We would divide it as follows:— 1. John points to Christ as God’s Lamb, John...
And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see. AND NATHANAEL SAID UNTO HIM, CAN THERE ANY GOOD THING COME OUT OF NAZARETH? Bethlehe...
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...
1:46 come (d-9) Lit. 'Can there be any good thing.'...
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...
PRELIMINARY CALL OF FIVE APOSTLES, ANDREW, JOHN, PETER, PHILIP, AND BARTHOLOMEW (peculiar to Jn). This account, so far from conflicting with the (later) call described Matthew 4:18; Mark 1:15; (cp. Lu...
NAZARETH] an obscure place not even mentioned in OT., which indicated Bethlehem as the birthplace of the Messiah (Micah 5:2)....
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...
The question is not, “Can the Messiah come out of Nazareth,” but “Can there any good thing come?” The question is asked by an inhabitant of a neighbouring village who looks upon the familiar town with...
CHAPTER 4 THE FIRST DISCIPLES. “Again on the morrow John was standing, and two of his disciples; and he looked upon Jesus as He walked, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God! And the two disciples heard...
εὑρίσκει … Ναζαρέτ. Philip in turn finds Nathanael, probably on the road from the Bethany ford homewards. Nathanael is probably the same person as is spoken of in the Synoptical Gospels as Bartholomew...
_Further manifestations of Jesus as Messiah_....
THE DOUBTER BECOMES A DISCIPLE John 1:43-51 The Apostles were attracted to the Master in different ways. Some came to Him through preaching, as when John proclaimed His rank and sacrifice. Others wer...
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...
(19) And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see. (19) We must especially take heed of false presumptions, which prevent us from en...
Can any thing of good come from Nazareth? Nathanael did not think it consistent with the predictions of the prophets, that the Messias, who was to be the Son of David, and to be born at Bethlehem, sho...
II. SECOND GROUP: JOHN 1:44-51. The following narrative seems to be contrived for the purpose of driving to despair, by its conciseness, the one who attempts to account for the facts from an external...
“ _Philip finds Nathanael and says to him: We have found Him of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus, the son of Joseph, of Nazareth._ ” Philip's part in the calling of Nathanael...
SECOND SECTION: 1:38-52. BEGINNINGS OF THE WORK OF JESUS. BIRTH OF FAITH. Testimony is the condition of faith. For faith is, at the outset, the acceptance of a divine fact on the foundation of testimo...
The day following, Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me, (44) Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. (45) Philip findeth Nathanael,...
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...
_EXPERIENCE THE TEST OF TRUTH_ ‘Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found Him, of Whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth,’ etc. John 1:45 Philip, be...
46._Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? _At first, _Nathanael _refuses, the place of Christ’s nativity (as described by _Philip_) having given him offense. But, first of all, he is deceived by th...
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 NATHANAEL SAID UNTO HIM,.... Taking notice of, and laying hold on what Philip said, that he was of Nazareth, which at once stumbled, and prejudiced him against Jesus being the Messiah; knowing ver...
And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see. Ver. 46. _Can there any good, &c._] When men take a toy in their heads against a place...
_Philip findeth Nathanael_ Nathanael is supposed by many to have been the person, who, in the catalogue of the apostles, is called Bartholomew, that is, as the word signifies, the son of Tholomew, for...
NAZARETH; Matthew 2:23....
Happenings of the fourth day:...
AND NATHANAEL SAID UNTO HIM, CAN THERE ANY GOOD THING COME OUT OF NAZARETH? PHILIP SAITH UNTO HIM, COME AND SEE. On the fourth day of the events which are here so carefully chronicled, Jesus had plann...
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...
43-51 See the nature of true Christianity, it is following Jesus; devoting ourselves to him, and treading in his steps. Observe the objection Nathanael made. All who desire to profit by the word of G...
The words of Philip begat a prejudice in Nathanael, as to what he said. It was prophesied, MICAH 5:2, that the Messiah should come out of Bethlehem. So, 1 THESSALONIANS 7:41,42, some of the people sai...
Origen Commentary on John Book I "We have found the Messiah, which is, being interpreted, Christ." And a little further on Philip finds Nathanael and says to him,[37]...
John 1:46 And G2532 Nathanael G3482 said G2036 (G5627) him G846 Can G1410 (G5736) anything G5100 good...
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...
DISCIPLES BEGIN TO GATHER TO JESUS (JOHN 1:35). The great teachers of Israel would often have bands of ‘disciples' who gathered round them to learn from them, and then to pass on their teaching. Here...
. ‘And Nathaniel said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?”. Philip says to him, “Come and see”.' Nathaniel replies with what was possibly a well known joke in Bethsaida, ‘can anything go...
John 1:46. AND NATHANAEL SAID UNTO HIM, CAN THERE ANY GOOD THING COME OUT OF NAZARETH? Philip saith unto him, Come and see. The mind of Nathanael (who, from his close association with Philip, is proba...
The same general subject is continued in this section Jesus taking His place on the stage of history. We pass now, however, from the witness of the Baptist, given on two successive days, to the manife...
CAN ANY GOOD THING COME OUT OF NAZARETH? (Εκ Ναζαρετ δυνατα τ αγαθον ειναι;). Literally, "Out of Nazareth can anything good be." There is a tinge of scorn in the question as if Nazareth (note positi...
John 1:45 The First Disciples Nathanael. I. Look first at the preparation a soul brought to Christ by a brother. "Philip findeth Nathanael." Nathanael's prejudice was but the giving voice to a fault...
John 1:46 The Duties of Heavenly Citizenship towards Infidelity. I. The heavenly citizen must first be deeply convinced of the truth of the proposition, _Magna est veritas et prævalebit._In "contendi...
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 1:29. _The next day_ This chapter is a record of the events that occurred on different days. Sometimes God does great things in a single day; one extraordinary day may have more in it than a hun...
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...
CAN ANYTHING GOOD COME FROM NAZARETH? Nazareth was a "hick town." The fact that the enemies of Jesus called him the Nazarene shows there was some disgrace connected with the name. COME AND SEE. "Find...
_The next day_ THE FIRST UTTERANCES OF THE WORD 1. A searching question. 2. A gracious invitation. 3. An encouraging promise. 4. A Divine command. 5. A heart revelation. 6. An assurance of a p...
_Philip findeth Nathanael._ The equivalent of Theodore. He is probably to be identified with Bartholomew, for 1. The mention of him here and in John 21:2, shows that he occupied a prominent position...
TWO INVITATIONS Come, and ye shall see John 1:39. Come and see John 1:46. I want to speak today about seeing things for yourself. Whether is it nicer to see a thing for yourself or just to hear ab...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:46 NAZARETH. Nazareth was a town of no more than 2,000 people. See note on Luke 1:26. ⇐...
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...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 1:45. NATHANAEL = Theodorus. The gift of God (נְתַנְאֵל). Probably this is the disciple mentioned afterward as Bartholomew (Matthew 10:3). How quickly did those e...
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,...
1 Thessalonians 5:21; John 4:29; John 7:41; John 7:42; John 7:52;...
FOLLOWING CHRIST John 1:36 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We delight in the study of John the Baptist. Christ said that he was the greatest man born of woman, yet he was not self-centered or proud. Had he been...
Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? — How cautiously should we guard against popular prejudices? When these had once possessed so honest a heart as that of Nathanael, they led him to suspect the...
Were the apostles called at this time or later? PROBLEM: John records that Jesus called Andrew, Peter, Philip, Nathanael, and another disciple at this time. However, the other Gospels record their cal...