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Verse 40. _AND YE WILL NOT COME TO ME_] Though ye thus search the
Scriptures, in hopes of finding the _Messiah_ and _eternal life_ in
them, yet _ye will not come unto me_, believe in me, and be my
dis...
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AND YE WILL NOT COME ... - Though the Old Testament bears evidence
that I am the Messiah; though you professedly search it to learn the
way to life, and though my works prove it, yet you will not come...
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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...
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WITNESS. The subject is introduced abruptly, but rises naturally out
of the circumstances. The claims made, if less than the author
represents them, were such as to raise the question of authority. By...
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MIGHT HAVE LIFE.
They turned away from the life that was in their own Scriptures. The
word _search_ implies painstaking, exhaustive examination....
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MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
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WILL NOT COME. do not will (John 5:6) to come.
TO. Greek. _pros._ App-104.
MIGHT. may....
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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...
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THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
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Ver 31. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32. There
is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which
he witnesses of me is true. 33. You sent to John, and he b...
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_A WITNESS TO JESUS -- JOHN 5:31-47:_ Jesus called the attention of
the Jews to the fact that God the Father was His witness. John was a
great witness but the things that the Father had given Him to d...
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ΈΛΘΕΪ́Ν _aor. act. inf. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064)
приходить. _Inf._ дополняет основной гл.
ΈΧΗΤΕ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь. _Conj._
с ΊΝ (G2443) выражает цель....
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DISCOURSE: 1631
THE TRUE REASON OF MEN’S DESTRUCTION
John 5:40. _Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life_.
TO doubt whether men wish to be saved or not, may appear absurd. No
man would hesit...
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THE WITNESS OF THE SCRIPTURES
_Text 5:39-47_
39
Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have
eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;
40
and ye will not come...
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EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
John 5:31-47
We begin with our usual Analysis of the passage which is to be before
us:—
"If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true" (John 5:31).
Every comm...
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And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
AND YE WILL NOT COME, [ ou (G3756 ) thelete (G2309 ) elthein (G2064
), RATHER 'YE ARE NOT WILLING TO COME'] TO ME, THAT YE MIGHT HAVE
LIFE: - q....
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31 The usual rendering, "If I bear witness of Myself My witness is not
true", _ is not true_! The Lord Himself insisted, on another occasion,
that His testimony concerning Himself _ was _ true. "And i...
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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...
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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 po...
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AND YE WILL NOT COME TO ME. — The real hindrance is once more traced
to the will. (See Note on John 3:9.) It is moral, not intellectual.
The result of a true willingness to know the truth is certain,...
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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...
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καὶ οὐ … ἔχητε. The true function of Scripture is
expressed in the words, ἐκεῖναί εἰσιν αἱ
μαρτυροῦσαι περὶ ἐμοῦ : they do not give life,
as the Jews thought; they lead to the life-giver. God speaks i...
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WILLFUL REJECTION OF TRUTH CONDEMNED
John 5:39-47
Our Lord was accused by the Jews of Sabbath breaking. There were many
grounds on which He might have claimed exoneration, but He forbore to
use them...
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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...
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_And you will not come to me. Christ now gives them reason why they do
not receive him, and his doctrine, nor believe in him; because they
are void of the love of God, full of self-love, envy, pride,...
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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....
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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
indif...
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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...
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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...
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_THE DEVOTIONAL STUDY OF SCRIPTURE_
‘They are they which testify of Me.’
John 5:39
By the devotional study of Scripture I understand such a study, or
rather, I may say, such ‘a use’ of God’s Word a...
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40._And you will not come to me. _He again reproaches them that it is
nothing but their own malice that hinders them from becoming partakers
of the life offered in the Scriptures; for when he says tha...
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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...
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AND YE WILL NOT COME TO ME,.... Which is to be understood, not of a
corporeal coming to him; for many of the Jews did come to him in this
sense; some for one thing, and some for another; some for the...
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And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Ver. 40. _Ye will not come to me_] Though clearly convinced by the
Scriptures. See their obstinace and malice. Amos,Amos 6:12, compareth
such unta...
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_Search the Scriptures_ Because the Jews were exceedingly averse to
acknowledge Jesus for their Messiah, notwithstanding that the
evidences of his mission were so unexceptionable, he appeals, lastly,...
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YE WILL NOT COME TO ME; notwithstanding this evidence that he was the
Messiah, they would not receive him....
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The authority of the Scriptures:...
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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 Je...
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39-44 The Jews considered that eternal life was revealed to them in
their Scriptures, and that they had it, because they had the word of
God in their hands. Jesus urged them to search those Scripture...
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You will not own, embrace, and receive me as the true Messiah and
Saviour of the world, though that be the only means by which you can
obtain that eternal life which you pretend to be seeking after, a...
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John 5:40 But G2532 not G3756 willing G2309 (G5719) come G2064 (G5629)
to G4314 Me G3165 that G2443 have G2192 (G5725) life G2222
you will not - John 5:44, John 1:11, John 3:19,...
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WITNESSES TO THE GENUINENESS OF HIS AUTHORITY (JOHN 5:31).
Jesus now goes on to describe the witnesses which support Him:
· He is the One to Whom the Father has borne witness (John 5:37)
· His very...
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The performance of the miracle of healing on the sabbath had roused
the active opposition of the Jews to Jesus, and that again had led to
the great declaration contained in John 5:17, in which Jesus a...
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AND YE WILL NOT COME TO ME
(κα ου θελετε ελθειν προς με). "And yet" (κα)
as often in John. "This is the tragedy of the rejection of Messiah by
the Messianic race" (Bernard). See John 1:11; Matthew...
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John 5:39
Searching Scripture and finding Christ
I. It is evident that the failure of many men to find Christ is not
from any deficiency in the means of discovering Him. It is this which
our Lord so...
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John 5:24. _Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word,
and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life,_
If we truly believe the word of Christ, and trust in him who sent his
S...
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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, t...
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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...
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YOU STUDY THE SCRIPTURES. They were looking to find eternal life.
Compare Romans 9:30-33. AND THEY THEMSELVES SPEAK ABOUT ME! The
Scriptures gave their witness to Christ, The entire Old Testament
poin...
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_If I bear witness of Myself My witness is not true._
There is another that beareth witness of Me
THE WITNESSES OF THE SON
I. A GREAT WITNESS, His forerunner. The Baptist as a witness for
Christ wa...
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THE ENCHANTMENT OF SIN
Ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. John 5:40.
There is a book called _The Faerie Queen_ which was written a few
hundred years ago. It is full of wonderful stories...
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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.
⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var...
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VER. 36. _But I have greater witness_, &c.: _i.e._, than John's
witness; _greater_ in the sense of _surer, more efficacious_, that I
am Messiah, the Son of God. This greater testimony is My works, My...
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_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_
John 5:19. THE SON CAN DO NOTHING OF HIMSELF.—This statement refers
back to and justifies that of John 5:17. He is still speaking of the
eternal relation in which He...
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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 DEATH SENTENCE RECORDED BY THE SANHEDRIN....
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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...
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1 John 5:11; Isaiah 49:7; Isaiah 50:2; Isaiah 53:1; John 1:11; John
12:37; John 3:19; John 5:44; John 8:45; John 8:46;...
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And. More than a simple copula. Rather and yet. See on Luke 18:7. Ye
will not [ο υ θ ε λ ε τ ε]. Indicating stubborn determination.
See on Matthew 1:19....
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Yet ye will not come unto me — As they direct you....
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Here our Saviour upbraids the Jews for thier obstinate infidelity;
that notwithstanding God the Father by. voice from heaven, and John
the Baptist by his testimony on earth, notwithstanding all the
mi...