9 The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world. 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. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." 18 There is no fear in love. Johns answer goes down to the depths, for his notion of love is the response of the believing soul to the love of God which was manifested on the Cross of Calvary. Visit our library of inductive Bible studies for more in depth inductive studies on this and other books of the Bible you can use in your small group. As to Himself, He does not go at that time to the feast of tabernacles; but later on He goes up "not openly, but as it were in secret" (verseJohn 7:10; John 7:10), and taught. Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. And while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. (Ver. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. John 3:1-36 follows this up. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. WebThe proof of the later date of John's Gospel is in such references as 1:32, and 3:24, which assume a previous knowledge of the facts on the part of his readers. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. Pilate, disposed to gratify the behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. What love! In this chapter the apostle cautions against seducing spirits; advises to try them, and gives rules by which they may be known, and by which they are distinguished from others; and then returns to his favourite subject, brotherly love. WebPulpit Commentary Verse 19. (Ver. 1. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. And then the apostle returns to his former exhortation to brotherly love, which he enforces by the following reasons, because it is of God, a fruit of his Spirit and grace, and because it is an evidence of being born of God, and of having a true knowledge of him; whereas he that is destitute of it does not know him, seeing God is love, 1Jo 4:7,8, and having affirmed that God is love, he proves it, by the mission of his Son, to be a propitiation for the sins of such that did not love him, and that they might live through him; wherefore he argues, that if God had such a love to men, so undeserving of it, then the saints ought to love one another, 1Jo 4:9-11. NIV. John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. Also one of the two thus drawn to Him first finds his own brother Simon (with the words, We have found the Messiah), and led him to Jesus, who forthwith gave him his new name in terms which surveyed, with equal ease and certainty, past, present, and future. How blessed the contrast with the people's state depicted in this chapter, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, looking to "letters," rulers, and Pharisees, perplexed about the Christ, but without righteous judgment, assurance, or enjoyment! and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. (Ver. "He must, increase, but I decrease." (Ver. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. WebMatthew Henry's Commentary on 1 John 4:16-19 Commentary on 1 John 4:14-21 (Read 1 John 4:14-21) The Father sent the Son, he willed his coming into this world. Here the Lord was really owned by the multitudes as the great Prophet that should come; and this in consequence of His works, especially that one which Scripture itself had connected with the Son of David. Web1 John 4:19 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] 1 John 4:19, NIV: We love because he first loved us. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. All rights reserved. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Nor could any question be more momentous. He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. 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. And whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. "He that believeth on him is not judged: but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. (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? Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. Very simple words! His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. (Verses John 4:31-38). All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. Not Jacob was there, but the Son of God in nothing but grace; and thus to the Samaritan woman, not to the teachers of Israel, are made those wonderful communications which unfold to us with incomparable depth and beauty the real source, power, and character of that worship which supersedes, not merely schismatic and rebellious Samaria, but Judaism at its best. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. No argument can be drawn from Luke 4:23 against the view that the incidents are different, for therein a ministry at Capernaum would already be presupposed (Schleiermacher, Kern, de Wette, Weiss, Bleek, Holtzmann, and others), as Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. Observe: not which was, but "which is." a male mule, or more Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. He would apply himself more to preaching work, which was the more excellent, 1 Cor 1 17. Man is morally judged. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. 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. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. The chapter pursues this subject, showing that it is not only God who thus deals first, with the necessity of man before His own immutable nature; next, blessing according to the riches of His grace but, further, that man's state morally is detected yet more awfully in presence of such grace as well as holiness in Christ. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. Let them learn, then, that as Son of man (for which nature they despised Him, and denied His essential personal glory) He will judge; and this judgment will be no passing visitation, such as God has accomplished by angels or men in times past. This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." Jesus declared of God the Father, God is Spirit, (John 4:24) meaning that God the Father has no tangible body which may be seen. At that time Jesus remained in the judgment hall. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. 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. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. Glory would be displayed in its day. 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. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. John was not yet cast into prison. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. The Lord meets him at once with the strongest assertion of the absolute necessity that a man should be born anew in order to see the kingdom of God. 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. Alas! Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. 17 This is how love is (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" 2 He was with God in the beginning. The Jews were not satisfied with that, but demanded still that he should be put to death, John 19:39-40. "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." The account of Jesus calling the first disciples matches almost word for word the parallel account in Mark 1.1620. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." 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? "Master, eat," said they. This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). This we have had fully before. God is love. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. 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. This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. Accordingly, if the law raised the question of righteousness in man, the cross of the Lord Jesus, typifying Him made sin, is the answer; and there has all been settled to the glory of God, the Lord Jesus having suffered all the inevitable consequences. They crown Jesus with thorns and dress him in a purple robe. The Father seeks worshippers. 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. One must be born again. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. 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. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. He could, therefore, tell them of heavenly things as readily as of earthly things; but the incredulity about the latter, shown in the wondering ignorance of the new birth as a requisite for God's kingdom, proved it was useless to tell of the former. It is found also in the omissions of all the material of the Synoptics down to the passion. 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. Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose." 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. If a man looks at the Lord Jesus as One who entered the world in a general way, and calls this the incarnation, he will surely stumble over the cross. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. For The Baltimore Sun. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. He has given us the spirit of adoption by which we call Him, Abba, father! My wifes dad was a chiropractor and when she got to be old enough, he gave her an opportunity to be a receptionist at his clinic. 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. Do any believe on His name? For if the Son (cast out, we may say, in principle from Judaism) visited Samaria, and deigned to talk with one of the most worthless of that worthless race, it could not be a mere rehearsal of what others did. Also called john mule . John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. And so, in fact, it was and is. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. Thus, as in the former case the Lord's dealing in Galilee was a type of the future, this appears to be significant of His then present path of grace in that despised quarter of the land. John was the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. (Verses John 7:40-53). 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. (Verses John 1:44-51). It finds, of course, a present application, and links itself with that activity of grace in which God is now sending out the gospel to any sinner and every sinner. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. This He does in verses 16-19. His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. The heart-searching issuing in perception of the prophetic rank of Jesus. One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. (ver. 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. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. (Verses John 5:17-18). 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. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. 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. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." Accordingly there is a four-fold testimony to Jesus: the testimony of John the Baptist; the Lord's own works; the voice of the Father from heaven; and finally, the written word which the Jews had in their own hands. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. The woman saith, Sir, I perceive thou art a prophet To find a person who was a perfect stranger, and who, on account of the national animosity, could not be suspected of (Ver. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. WebJohn was the most popular name given to male infants in the United States until 1924, and though its use has fallen off gradually since then, John was still the 20th most common name for boys on the Social Security Administration 's list of names given in 2006. ", 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. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. The way you see God has everything to do with how you approach Him, how you relate to Him. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." It was not that they were better than their neighbours. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. 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. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. (Ver. 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. 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." How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. Knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. 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. (Ver. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. 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