Scofield's Bible Commentary
John 5:18
his Father
(Greek, "patēr", "his own Father"). The Jews understood perfectly that Jesus was claiming to be God.
Compare (John 10:33).
his Father
(Greek, "patēr", "his own Father"). The Jews understood perfectly that Jesus was claiming to be God.
Compare (John 10:33).
Verse John 5:18. _MAKING HIMSELF EQUAL WITH GOD._] This the Jews understood from the preceding verse: nor did they take a wrong meaning out of our Lord's words; for he plainly stated that, whatever w...
THE MORE TO KILL HIM - The answer of Jesus was suited greatly to irritate them. He did not deny what he had done, but he “added” to that what he well knew would highly offend them. That he should clai...
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...
BECAUSE HE NOT ONLY HAD BROKEN THE SABBATH. The Pharisees were horrified, not only at what they deemed the breaking of the Sabbath, but at the high ground on which the Lord placed his defence. They co...
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)...
TO KILL HIM. Note three attempts on the Lord's life, all connected with His claim to Deity, here; John 8:58, Joh 8:69. John 10:30; John 10:31. BECAUSE HE NOT ONLY. The 1611 edition of the Authorized V...
_Therefore_ Better, FOR THIS CAUSE. See on John 5:16; John 6:65; John 7:21-22; John 8:47;...
The Prerogatives and Powers of the Son of God 17, 18. _Defence of healing on the Sabbath based on the relation of the Son to the Father_. _My Father worketh hitherto_, &c. Or, _My Father_ IS WORKING...
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...
ΔΙᾺ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ. See on John 5:16. ΜΑ͂ΛΛΟΝ shews that ἐδίωκον in John 5:16 includes attempts to compass His death. Comp. Mark 3:6. This is the blood-red thread which runs through the whole of this section...
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
THE PREROGATIVES AND POWERS OF THE SON OF GOD...
17, 18. _Defence of healing on the Sabbath based on the relation of the Son to the Father_....
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...
ΈΖΉΤΟΥΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΖΗΤΈΩ (G2212) искать. _Impf._ является либо прогрессивным, указывающим на развивающееся действие, либо iterat.: "они продолжали пытаться убить Его" ΆΠΟΚΤΕΊΝΑΙ _aor. act....
DISCOURSE: 1625 CHRIST’S EQUALITY WITH THE FATHER John 5:17. _Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had brok...
GOD WAS HIS FATHER,— Our Lord's vindication offended the Jews exceedingly, as he claimed a peculiar, proper, and most high relation to God the Father, and, by asserting that he acted like God, set him...
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...
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. THEREFORE [OR 'FOR THIS CAUSE' dia...
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...
For “had broken,” read _did He break,_ and for “His Father,” _His own Father._ They recognise as beyond doubt what He means by the term “My Father,” and the attribute of ceaseless energy. It was a cla...
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...
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...
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was (c) his Father, making himself equal with God. (c) That is, his alone and no one...
That God was his Father, [4] making himself equal to God. In divers places of the Old Testament, God is called the Father of the Israelites, and they his children: but here, and on several other occas...
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. 18. “ _For this reason the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but called God his own Father, making himself equal with God._ ” The διὰ τοῦτο (_for this reaso...
II. THE DISCOURSE OF JESUS: JOHN 5:17-47. In this discourse which is designed to vindicate the act which He has just performed, the three following thoughts are developed: 1. Jesus justifies His work...
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...
18._For this reason, therefore, the Jews sought the more to slay him. _This defense was so far from allaying their fury that it even enraged them the more. Nor was he unacquainted with their malignity...
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...
THEREFORE THE JEWS SOUGHT THE MORE TO KILL HIM,.... They were the more desirous to take away his life, and were more bent and resolute upon it, and studied all ways and means how to bring it about; B...
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. Ver. 18. _The Jews sought the more_]...
_Jesus answered_ “By _the Jews_, who in the preceding verses are said to have persecuted Jesus, we are to understand the rulers, as appears from John 5:33, where Jesus, speaking to the persons who sou...
THE RELATION BETWEEN THE FATHER AND THE SON. Jesus gives the Jews an answer:...
THEREFORE THE JEWS SOUGHT THE MORE TO KILL HIM, BECAUSE HE NOT ONLY HAD BROKEN THE SABBATH, BUT SAID ALSO THAT GOD WAS HIS FATHER, MAKING HIMSELF EQUAL WITH GOD....
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...
17-23 The Divine power of the miracle proved Jesus to be the Son of God, and he declared that he worked with, and like unto his Father, as he saw good. These ancient enemies of Christ understood him,...
OLBGrk; This yet enraged the Jews more: they had before against him a charge of breaking the sabbath, or, at least, teaching another to break it (in their opinion); but now he had (as they judged) spo...
Tertullian On Repentance Chapter V.-Sin Never to Be Returned to After Repentance.[38]...
John 5:18 Therefore G1223 G5124 G3767 Jews G2453 sought G2212 (G5707) more G3123 kill G615 ...
. ‘This was why the Jews sought the more to kill Him (i.e. to plot His death) because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God ‘His own Father' (patera idion) making Himself equal with God'....
‘But Jesus answered them, “My Father works even until now, and I work”. Jesus' reply to the charge of breaking the Sabbath is a powerful one. ‘My Father is still at work, and I also am working'. No on...
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...
John 5:18. FOR THIS CAUSE THEREFORE THE JEWS SOUGHT THE MORE TO KILL HIM, BECAUSE HE NOT ONLY BROKE THE SABBATH, BUT ALSO CALLED GOD HIS OWN FATHER, MAKING HIMSELF EQUAL WITH GOD. The Jews do not fail...
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...
SOUGHT THE MORE (μαλλον εζητουν). Imperfect active of ζητεω, graphic picture of increased and untiring effort "to kill him" (αυτον αποκτεινα, first aorist active, to kill him off and be done with hi...
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...
THIS SAYING MADE THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES. They are horrified! Not only has he "kicked" their Tradition by healing on the Sabbath, but he said God was _his own Father!_ This was blasphemy to them!...
_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 5:1 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_, &c. _His Father_, Greek, _πατέζα ίδιον_,. _i.e._, _His own Father_, because Christ alone is the peculiar, and by nature, Son of God. _Making Himself equal with God_, because He had said t...
_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...
John 10:30; John 10:33; John 14:23; John 14:9; John 5:23;...
Had broken [ε λ υ ε]. Literally, was loosing : the imperfect tense. See on He did, ver. 16. Not, broke the Sabbath in any particular case, but was annulling the law and duty of Sabbath observance. Hi...
His own Father — The Greek word means his own Father in such a sense as no creature can speak. Making himself equal with God — It is evident all the hearers so understood him, and that our Lord never...
Observe here, The Jews instead of being satisfied, were the more enraged; not only because he had violated the sabbath (as they pretended) by healing the cripple on the sabbath-day, but because Christ...