John 3:17; John 3:17) This decides all before the execution of judgment, Every man's lot is made manifest by his attitude toward God's testimony concerning His Son. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. (Ver. (Ver. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. 1 John 4:16-19 New International Version 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. To have righteousness we For He who spoke was divine. It is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. (16-19) Jesus speaks of her sinful life. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. Art thou Elias? Thus the Holy Ghost, given by the Son in humiliation (according to God, not acting on law, but according to the gift of grace in the gospel), was fully set forth; but the woman, though interested, and asking, only apprehended a boon for this life to save herself trouble here below. Art thou that prophet? Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? (sometimes initial capital letter) a fellow; guy. "The law was given by Moses." So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. but they go down into the depths of God, lifting burdens off the heart of humanity, turning duty into delight, and changing the aspect of all things. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. It is not merely or most of all a great prophet or witness: He is the Son; and the Father has given all things to be in His hand. Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 4:16-19 Commentary on John 4:4-26 (Read John 4:4-26) There was great hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry commended World Economic Forum attendees on Tuesday, saying their efforts to combat climate change were "almost extraterrestrial." For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. NIV. Nay, "the world knew him not." (Ver. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. Flesh and world are judged morally. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. But what we learn is, that our Lord (viewed as having entered into heaven as man on the ground of redemption, i.e., ascended, after having passed through death, into glory) from that glory confers meanwhile the Holy Ghost on him that believes, instead of bringing in at once the final feast of gladness for the Jews and the world, as He will do by-and-by when the anti-typical harvest and vintage has been fulfilled. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. Here the Lord introduces the cross. (Ver. The result immediately follows. It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." Do any believe on His name? Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." How truly it is man under law! He would apply himself more to preaching work, which was the more excellent, 1 Cor 1 17. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. But this is not the question of grace: not what she was, but what He is who was there to win and bless her, manifesting God and the Father withal, practically and in detail. But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. WebJohn 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. This leads Philip to Nathanael, in whose case, when he comes to Jesus, we see not divine power alone in sounding the souls of men, but over creation. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. (SeePsalms 2:1-12; Psalms 2:1-12) But the Lord tells him of greater things he, should see, and says to him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, henceforth (not "hereafter," but henceforth) ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). Author. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. Various provisions were made for him in England (117476), including the succession to the So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? through "sin." He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. Herein is our loveb made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. , He saith ) Now He makes an avenue for giving to the woman, who begs for water, a better kind of it, than that which she had begged for. , husband ) The woman Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, but withal, as he had said, the eternal One, yet in view of His manifestation to Israel (and, therefore, John was come baptizing with water a reason here given, but not to the Pharisees in verses 25-27). (Verses John 1:44-51). It was sabbath-day. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, Tout ainsi que la terre, pour apporter fruict, sera menuisee et amollie par le soc de la charrue. It is not merely a Messiah, who comes and offers Himself, as we find in other gospels, with most painstaking diligence, and presented to their responsibility; but here from the outset the question is viewed as closed. Observe: not which was, but "which is." It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. 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