God has declared that He will not harshly judge the Pagan world (Romans 2:13; Romans 2:15); but salvation by uncovenanted mercies is a very different thing from the glories of the illuminated and victorious Christian heart. Education Details: John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.John 3:19,20 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil…John 12:36-40 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. John Chapter 5 Bible Study Questions (Handout) JOHN 5:1-2 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. The baptism of John was the seal of the Law. Hope will become knowledge. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? BS2805.3.A12 1998 227′.9406—dc21 97-33489 Printed in the United States of America 14 13 12 11 10 09 14 13 12 11 10 9 123John.indd iv 2/23/2009 1:18:04 PM (Comp. 1. All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death. The beloved and timeless King James Version is made available in an edition priced right for Sunday schools, Bible clubs, church presentations, and giveaways. (7) Moreover he declares two things, the one, what true faith is, that is, that which rests on Jesus Christ the Son of God alone: on which follows the other, that is, that this strength is not proper to faith, but by faith as an instrument is drawn from Jesus Christ the Son of God. Jesus saith to him, Thou hast said. Bible Commentaries /. The Jews answered, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, because thou, being a man, makest thyself God. And everyone that loveth him that begat - That loves that God who has thus begotten those whom he has received as his children, and to whom he sustains the endearing relation of Father. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. Is born of God - Or rather, "is begotten of God." Christ is the "only-begotten Son" by generation; we become begotten sons of God by regeneration and adoption. .—What may be the works of God among those who have not heard of His Son we do not here inquire. verse 8; 1 John 2:4, 23, 27; 1 John 3:6; 1 John 4:2, 3, 6-8; 1 John 5:12). By this we know that we love God, when we love the children of God, and keep his commandments. (8 a.) Luke renders this as " blessed are the poor " (Luke 6:20). sin. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness. This then is the message — That is, one part of it; which we have heard of him — The Son of God; that God is light — The light of truth, wisdom, holiness, glory. There should be no complacent condoning; from the point of view of the Christians themselves, such unbelievers were throwing the truth back in God’s face. The beginning of John 1:1 is profound: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 1John 2:25; John 17:3; 2Timothy 1:10.). 1 John 2:6. Education Details: Everything of the kind is excluded from the nature of God.And hence St. John, in his characteristic manner, immediately emphasizes the great announcement with an equivalent negative statement: Darkness in him there is not any at all (comp. The article with the participle denoting what is habitual; one who leads a life of victory over the world. (1) He advances in the same argument, showing how both those loves come to us, from that love with which God loves us, that is, by Jesus our mediator laid hold on by faith, in whom we are made the children of God, and do love the Father from whom we are begotten, and also our brothers who are begotten with us. St. John has been setting love in the supreme place which it held in our Lord’s teaching and in St. Paul’s. Read The Revelation of John by James L. Resseguie with a free trial. 5 h The light shines in the darkness . (Comp. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. 1 peter 3 commentary bible hub. (b)The evidence on which it rests (1John 5:6-10). (11) This is the record.—This is the substance of the witness of God. We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. The prayer of one human being can never cancel another's free-will. JOHN 16:1-4 1 "These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. ESV Personal Reference Bible, TruTone, Olive, Celtic Cross Design. “Having life” is the birth of the new man within which can never die. They had posted the score that Jesus was ahead, turning him and JohnJohn As a young child, becoming a beautiful bride seemed like the ultimate fairy-tale dream. A friendship with him will never end, but it will continue into *eternity. See the notes at John 3:3. Written in EasyEnglish by MissionAssist. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. The same word φαίνει, shineth, as regards the New Testament, 1 John 2:8, "The darkness is past, and the true light now shineth."— καὶ — οὐ, and—not) Similarly and—not, John 1:10-11.— ἡ σκοτία, the darkness) i.e. The water has assured him that he is no longer under the Law, but under grace, and has taught him the necessity of the new birth unto righteousness (John 3:5; Titus 3:5). In the beginning — Namely, of the creation, (for the evangelist evidently refers to the first word of the book of Genesis, בראשׁית, bereshith, rendered by the LXX. The destiny of our relationship with God. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ; πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός, Πᾶς Ὁ ΓΕΓΕΝΝΗΜΈΝΟς ἘΚ ΤΟῦ ΘΕΟῦ ἈΓΑΠᾷ ΤῸΝ ΘΕΌΝ, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Genesis 1-11: God makes Everything Genesis 12-24: God's Friend, Abraham Genesis 25-36: Jacob meets God Genesis 37-50: God is with Joseph Genesis: It all begins with God - by Marie Wetherill and Keith Simons. 1Jo 5:1-21. Who Are the Brethren Especially to Be Loved (1Jo 4:21); Obedience, the Test of Love, Easy through Faith, which Overcomes the World. (6) This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ.—“Water” and “blood” are referred to as two of the three great witnesses, or sets of evidence, for Christ. by this we may know that we love the children of God, And this is the victory that overcometh the world. It is a repetition of 1John 5:6 for the purpose of emphasis. John 16 Commentary. And hath given us an understanding - Not an "understanding" considered as a faculty of the mind, for religion gives us no new faculties; but he has so instructed us that we do understand the great truths . 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. Outside of the United Kingdom, the KJV is in the public domain. The following statements we find in First John only: "God is light" (chap. Both pastor and layperson will benefit for years to come from this unique commentary series. Found insideThe original, unrevised text of this volume has been completely retypeset and printed in a larger, more attractive format with the new cover design for the series He that hath not the Son of God hath not life.—As this is contemplating unbelievers, the words “of God” are added, to show them what they have lost. The latest Tweets from Bible Hub (@thebiblehub). Education Details: The Pool of Bethesda. i. John 5:14-18 Go And Sin No More. 1 Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and every one who loves the parent loves the child. He that believeth not God hath made him a liar.—The negative contrast, as usual, to strengthen the affirmative. (1) The glory of God's love. loveth him also that is begotten of him—namely, "his brethren" (1Jo 4:21).1Jo 5:1-3 He that loveth God loveth God’s children, and keethhis commandments.1Jo 5:4,5 A true faith will enable us to overcome the world.1Jo 5:6-10 The witnesses of our faith.1Jo 5:11-13 God hath given to believers eternal life through his Son,1Jo 5:14-17 and will hear and grant their petitions, made accordingto his will.1Jo 5:18-20 God’s children are distinguished from the world byabstaining from sin, and by a right knowledge.1Jo 5:21 A caution against idolatry.Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ; this is not meant of a mere professed, or of a slight and superficial, but of a lively, efficacious, unitive, soul-transforming, and obediential faith in Jesus as the Christ, which is elsewhere made the effect of the regenerating power and grace of God, John 1:12,13. John Gill's Exposition of the Bible /. (8 a.) 3 e All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. Presents a narrative retelling of stories from both the Old and New Testament of the Bible. 1 John 5:10. And the Spirit, which has had part in both these, is daily making him grow in grace (Galatians 5:22; Ephesians 5:9). 169 Barrett, The Gospel According to St. John, 577.. 170 Stephen S. Smalley, New Testament Studies 20 (1973/74): 275-88.. 171 Brown, The Gospel According to John, 1070.. 172 BAGD 719, s.v. After this there was a feast — Greek, η εορτη, the feast; of the Jews — This, in all probability, was the feast of the passover; because that solemnity was called the feast, by way of eminence, (Matthew 27:15; Mark 15:6;) and because immediately after it, we find the disciples on the sabbath in the fields, rubbing the ears, probably of barley, a kind of grain which was . There are those now, as there were then, who break away from one form of sin, and from one circle of sinful companions; there are those who change the ardent passions of youth for the soberness of middle or advanced life there are those who see the folly of profaneness, and of gaiety, and intemperance; there are those who are disappointed in some scheme of ambition, and who withdraw from political conflicts; there are those who are satiated with pageantry, and who, oppressed with the cares of state, as Diocletian and Charles V were, retire from public life; and there are those whose hearts are crushed and broken by losses, and by the death, or what is worse than death, by the ingratitude of their children, and who cease to cherish the fond hope that their family will be honored, and their name perpetuated in those whom they tenderly loved - but still there is no victory over the world. Whether you are just beginning to read Scripture or have been studying the Bible daily, commentaries offer verse by verse understanding. This is he - This Son of God referred to in the previous verse.The object of the apostle in this verse, in connection with 1 John 5:8, is to state the nature of the evidence that Jesus is the Son of God.He refers to three well-known things on which he probably had insisted much in his preaching - the water, and the blood, and the Spirit. For whatsoever is born of God Which may be understood either of persons born; of God; or of the new creature, or principle of grace wrought in them, particularly faith hereafter mentioned, which is an heaven born grace, the gift of God, and the operation of his Spirit: this three that bear witness; the Spirit, and the water, and. Bible. He that believeth on the Son of God As a divine person who came in the flesh, and obeyed the law, and brought in everlasting righteousness, and obtained life and salvation for men: he that with the heart believes in him for righteousness, and eternal life, he being the Son of God, truly and properly God, and so able to save all that believe in him, John 5:31-38 Bear Witness. Then the high-priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy: what think ye? John 5:1. 1. ph'cu".. 176 For a summary of the symbolic interpretations proposed . The Christian creed is here reduced to a very small compass: the gift of eternal life and the dependence of that life upon His Son. but they who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible. .—A new thought, suitable to the tenor of the passage, which lays down that faith is the measure of love. men wrapt in darkness.— αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν, [comprehended it not] did not attain . St. John regards the evidence as so certain, that he to whom it is brought and who rejects it seems as if he was boldly asserting that what God had said was false. Genesis: God's Ancient People - by Alun Owen. It includes the seven-volume Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, the two-volume Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, as well as the single volumes Seventh-day Adventist Bible Dictionary, Seventh-day Adventist . Jesus, too, showed this determination. ESV Large-Print Single-Column Journaling Bible--soft leather-look, charcoal with Celtic cross design. 1 John 5:11. The high-priest said, I adjure thee, &c., that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Of course, genuine love requires much more than calling someone tender names, but John's readers knew him to be a man who practiced love for them. Live a gospel-transformed life! An illuminating, engaging commentary on Johns letters that illustrates and applies Johns answers to the question, How can we know that we possess eternal life? Within this Bible you can access Bible commentary, history, helps, sermons, and more. Of these three, only love will remain into *eternity. The first speaks of God's holiness, truth and righteousness and the second of His grace and mercy. 1 John 4 2 John 1 . For this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. is born of God; is a partaker of the divine nature; has Christ formed, and every grace of the Spirit implanted in him, among which faith in Christ is a considerable one; and such an one in consequence is openly a child and heir of God, wherefore, to be born of God is an instance of great grace, and an high honour and privilege, and of the greatest moment and importance. 1 Peter 1 - Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Yet it was often used in a negative sense (as in Isaiah 5:1-2, 7 and Jeremiah 2:21). The aorist participle occurs nowhere else in St. John: it expresses him who, without relation to time past or present, is the Son of God. a. But he who is born of God—the true child of God—fights with this only as a conqueror, because, as far as he is born again, God is in him. . The Command to Love - Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! With Bible Gateway Plus, you gain instant access to a digital Bible study library, including complete notes from the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible and the New Bible Commentary. 1 John 5:5. Who is he that overcometh the world — That is superior to all earthly care, desire, fear? 4 1 Jesus realized that the Pharisees were keeping count of the baptisms that he and John performed 2 (although his disciples, not Jesus, did the actual baptizing). (Comp. And the confidence that we have towards him consists in this. When Hollywood documentary producer Paul Amirault underwent past-life regression, he experienced the sinking of the RMS Titanic in vivid detail. For more than a century, Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible has served as an invaluable guide for pastors and students the world over. And everyone who has this . This commentary on what the author calls "a singular, irreplaceable gem among the books of the New Testament" is written with a balance of theological orthodoxy, reverent scholarship, and evangelical warmth. Their deep dejection, their sadness, their brokenness of spirit, their lamentations, and their want of cheerfulness, all show that the spirit of the world still reigns in their hearts. C.H. Chapter 5 We have in the gospels a faithful record of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, Acts. The general idea is, that as all Christians are the children of the same Father; as they constitute one family; as they all bear the same image; as they share his favor alike; as they are under the same obligation of gratitude to him, and are bound to promote the same common cause, and are to dwell together in the same home forever, they should therefore love one another. They are symbols, and look back to two of the most characteristic and significant acts of His personal history. Thus it pointed to all the evidence which the Old Testament could possibly afford Him; and, through the Old Testament, it pointed to the dispensation of the Father. All friendship must be tested by loyalty to God; all love to Him must be tested by charity. 2 Peter & Jude. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). )FAITH THE TEST OF LOVE (1John 5:1-12). Welcome to Bible Hub, featuring topical, Greek and Hebrew study tools, plus concordances, commentaries, dictionaries, sermons and devotionals. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. 1 B The early months of Jesus' public ministry: from Cana to Cana (2:1-4:54) 1 C Water into Wine: the first Sign at Cana in Galilee (2:1-11) 2:1 th'/ hJmevra/ th'/ trivth/—this is probably a reference to the 3rd day after the last recorded events, the call of Philip and Nathanael (1:43-51). and now is--in its beginnings. The First Epistle of John, often referred to as First John and written 1 John or I John, is the first of the Johannine epistles of the New Testament, and the fourth of the catholic epistles.There is no scholarly consensus as to the authorship of the Johannine works.The author of the First Epistle is termed John the Evangelist, who most scholars believe is not the same as John the Apostle. 1-2), which mentions the sender and . John 6:5-15 New International Version (NIV). Genesis 1-11: God makes Adam and Eve and . International These two are interwoven, because what he taught explained what he did, and what he did confirmed what he taught. 1 John 5:21. 1 John 5:4. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. See the notes at 1 John 4:20. Man is spirit. . And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. Bible Biblestudytools.com All Courses . John 5 - Bible Hub. Here is the message or report that the apostle avers to come from the Lord Jesus: This then is the message which we have heard of him (1 John 1:5; 1 John 1:5), of his Son Jesus Christ. is passed--"hath passed over" from death unto life--What a transition! 1. If such sorrows and disappointments conduct to the Saviour, as they sometimes do; if they lead the troubled mind to seek peace in his blood, and support in the hope of heaven, then a real victory is obtained over the world; and then, when the hand of affliction is withdrawn, it is seen that there has been a work of grace in the soul that has effectually changed all its feelings, and secured a triumph that shall be eternal. The Pulpit Commentary, Electronic Database. Many of the themes found in the prologue to the Fourth Gospel are related to themes that occur in the prologue to 1 John. The New King James Bible makes a marginal note on 1 John 5:7-8, stating that the words in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. Bible Commentaries Text Commentaries Audio & Video Commentaries Learn more today! (3) For this is . "The Seventh-day Adventist Commentary Reference Series is a set of volumes produced primarily by Seventh-day Adventist scholars, and designed for both scholarly and church member use. Devils also came out of many, crying out, Thou art Christ, the Son of God, These things are written that you might believe. Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Thus, when this most symbolic act was complete, the Almighty Giver of the old Law or covenant was heard saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”. Choose a book, chapter and verse to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org 3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. .—These words are introduced to show that what were treated as two separate qualities in the last verse are in reality the same thing. The old dispensation, of which the Baptist’s preaching was the last message, had no other moaning than the preparation for the Messiah; the sacrifice of Calvary was the consummation of the Messiah’s mission; the kingdom of the Spirit, starting from that mission, was the seal of it. Contrast between the Good Shepherd and the false shepherds of Israel. Enough that those who have this privilege are sons if they accept the message. Its opposite is not annihilation, but the second death: existence in exclusion from God. John Gill's Exposition of the Bible /. John 4. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. The one is His baptism, the other His cross. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. (8 b.) Not Socrates, with his want of the sense of sin and his tolerance of evil; not Cicero, with his tormenting vanity; not the Gnostics, with their questionable lives: only those in whom had dawned the bright and morning Star. Matthew 3:16; John 1:32-33; John 3:34; Romans 1:4; 1Timothy 3:16; 1Peter 3:18.). but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? 1 John 5 NIV - Bible Hub › See more all of the best education on www.biblehub.com Education Details: Faith in the Incarnate Son of God.1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. (8) The text of this verse is properly, For there are three that bear witness; the Spirit, and the water, and the blood. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. God has commanded us nothing for His own sake, but everything for our own highest profit and happiness. John 1:1-2. (Isaiah 5:7) In verse one our Lord Jesus Christ compares Himself to the grapevines that flourished in Israel, declaring, "I AM the True Vine.". *Faith will no longer be necessary. Why His baptism? (1-2) Jesus is the true, legitimate shepherd, who enters in the way that is proper and prepared. (Comp. every one that loveth him that begat—sincerely, not in mere profession (1Jo 4:20). Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete) /. the dead--the spiritually dead, as is clear from John 5:28. In this carefully crafted commentary, Peter O'Brien distinctively harvests the results of recent scholarship on the letter to the Hebrews, especially in relation to the genre of the document and the flow of its discourse. 5 hours ago Bible commentaries, written by well-known and popular theologians, aid in the study of Scripture by providing explanation and interpretation of Biblical text. Before τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ τὸ αἷμα, the Textus Receptus reads ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ πατήρ, ὁ . 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