behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth . John 7:38; John 7:38) And then we have the comment of the Holy Ghost: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)" There is, first, the thirsty soul coming to Jesus and drinking; then there is the power of the Spirit flowing forth from the inner man of the believer in refreshment to others. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. These are a test of evangelical authenticity. (Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? 15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." John 6:16. For Jesus perceived that they were on the point of coming and carrying Him off to make Him king. What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? How can such have relationship with God? Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 36:25-27 ought to have made the Lord's meaning plain to an intelligent Jew. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. Her life is laid before her by His voice, and she confesses to Him that God Himself spoke to her in His words: "Sir [said she], I perceive that thou art a prophet." This we have had fully before. If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. The answer given by modern premillennial apologists usually suggests that premillennialism was overcome for illegitimate reasons. It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. John 7. Yet before a miracle, as well as in the working of those which set forth His glory, it is evident that so far from its being a gradual growth, as it were, in His mind, He had, all simple and lowly though He were, the deep, calm, constant consciousness that He was God. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. And he answered, No. Without sign, prodigy, or miracle, in this village of Samaria Jesus was heard, known, confessed as truly the Saviour of the world ("the Christ" being absent in the best authorities, ver. God does not here condescend to call it His, though, of course, it was His and holy, just, and good, both in itself and in its use, if used lawfully. mountain alone". It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. It was much, yet was it little of the glory that was His; but at least it was real; and to the one that has shall be given. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." (Verses John 4:31-38). It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. alone, for the sake of secret retirement, and private prayer; and He could be declared only by One who was a divine person in the intimacy of the Godhead, yea, was the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. And such was Jesus. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. The Father and the Son were at work. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. 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. Man, dead in sins, was the object of His grace; but then man's state was such, that it would have been derogatory to God had that life been communicated without the cross of Christ: the Son of man lifted up on it was the One in whom God dealt judicially with the evil estate of man, for the, full consequences of which He made Himself responsible. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. Why should He not show Himself to the world? It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. Verse 15. 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. Just as distinct and beyond comparison is His testimony who, coming from heaven and above all, testifies what He saw and heard, however it might be rejected. It was sabbath-day. After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. , And this very circumstance is perhaps the cause, that nowhere do we read that Jesus, whilst He teas sojourning on the earth, entered, even though that town was very close to Jerusalem. This is the only miracle recorded in all four of the gospel accounts. 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. Of this we learn nothing, here. In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. This, of course, supposes the setting aside of Jerusalem, its people and house, as they now are, and is justified by the great fact of Christ's death and resurrection, which is the key to all, though not yet intelligible even to the disciples. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. (ver. Jesus Walks on the Sea. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. Read full chapter John 6:15 in all English translations John 5 John 7 New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. 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. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. 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