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81 And many of the people believed on
Him, and said, When Christ cometh, will
He do more miracles than these which this
man hath done?"
The lessons of the fifth chapter were
based upon the incidents connected with
one OF the feasts of the Jews those in the
sixth chapter were associated with the
mamma and the passover feast; these are in
connection with the feast of tabernacles
VERSE p, which points us forward to the
coming kingdom Of Israel and the time of
blessing upon all nations Czech. xiv, 16, ~.
~ "Fhe Pharisees heard that the people
murmured such things concerning Him;
and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent
officers to take Him."
Always hhtinR Him, and always seeking
70 Kill Him, but unable to touch Him till
His work was done (chapter viii 20; xiii, y.
Protesting to be children of God and the
trueseed OF Abraham, they madeit manifest
by their conduct that they were not truly
OF God nor Of Abraham, but rather of their
father, the devil Chapter viii, 42-i4
38. "Then said Jesus unto them, Yet
little while am with you, and then go
uHUO him JnaU sent me.
Over thirty times in this gospel He
speaks of the Father sending Him.
IA. "Ye shall seek me and shall not find
me. And where | am, thither ye cannot
come"
Now, He had before said that "He that
seeketh findcth" (Math. vi 81, but there is
nc contradiction. We must only take His
sayings in the light of all his other say
ings, Eye shall seek me, and find me,
when ye shall search for me with all your
heart" DER. xxx, 13), This kind of seek
ing never fails.
80. "Then said the Jews among them
selves, Whittier will He go that we shall
not find Him2 VIII lie go unto the dis
persed among the Gentiles, and teach the
GentilesP"
OF the earth earthly, they understood not
heavenly things. That He came down
from heaven they did not believe, and
therefore His going to Him that sent Him
they could not understand. That many
Jews were scattered abroad among the ma
lions Is evident from the Acts of the Apos-
ties
30. "What manner of saying is this that
He said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not
lind me. And where l am, thither ye can
not comeW
II He could find His way to any part of
the earth, why could not they follow Him
II they saw FTP Such seems to have been
their thoughts. Anything beyond the
earth they neither knew nor thought much
about. Talk of heavenly things, even now,
to many church members and they have
nothing to say, they know not the Ian
guage; but let business, politics, pleasure
or pa ha . ha 4 Al,
lack of words nor of interest.
81 "In the last day, that great day of the
feast, Jesus stood and Cried saying, If any
man thirst, let him come unto me and
drink"
For seven days was the feast continued,
and many sacrifices were offered every day,
but the eighth day, tho last day of the feast,
was special day (Lev. xviii, 36; Mum. |
xxx, $3.50. Although the special sacri-
fees offered on this day were less than OH
any other day of the feast, being only ten
as compared with thirty on the first day
(Num. xxx, 1916, 35-3S), yet it was in inn
portance the great day, the most solemn |
and holy of all the days (Neh'' viii, 1S).
3S. "IIe that believeth on me, as the |
Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water"
water that shall give him shall be in him |
a well of water springing up into everlast-
ing life Qv, 14); but this is even in advance
of that, for here lie speaks of rivers of
living water going forth from the inmost |
being of the believer.
80. But this spake He of the Spirit, |
which they that believeth on Him should |
receive"
From beginning to end of Scripture, and |
from the Garden of Eden to the new
heavens and earth, the spirit is the mighty |
worker, or, as some one has said, "the Ex-
ecutive of the Godhead." TO see the diff |
ference between an ordinary believer and |
one filled with the spirit we have only to |
consider Peter before and after pentecost.
For the Holy Ghost was not yet, because
that Jesus was not yet glorifed"
The Holy Spirit, while in all ages the
great worker, had up to this time not been |
given as He was at Pentecost, and the |
reason Is mentioned in this verse. He had |
testified through the prophets of n coming |
Messiah and kingdom. He now testifes
TO Messiah who came was rejected and |
crucified, rose from the dead and is now
glorifed Mt the right hand of God. As Pc
ter by the Spirit testified, God hath made
that same Jesus, whom We have crucifed,
both Lord and Christ" Acts Ii, 36)
40. "Many of the people therefore, when
they heard this saying, said, OF "A truth this
Is the prophet"
just rs after the feeding of the five thou
sand the people said, This is of truth
that prophet that should come into the
world" John vi, 40. When John the Bap-
fist said that he was not the Christ nor
Elijah, they then asked il he was chat
prophet (chap, /, 90 2D The passage
which they had in mind was probably
Deut. xviii, IS, II win raise them up a
prophet from among their brethren like
unto thee, and will put my words in His
mouth, and lie shall speak unto them all
that shall command Him.
Al. "Others said, This is the Christ But
some said, Shall Christ come out of Cali
leeP"
They now think it possible that He may
be the King of Israel. the Son Of David, as
foretold in III Sam. vii, IL, 49, lisa. tx, 6, Z.
That the Christ or Messiah was understood
20 be the King-of the Jews, and so looked
for, is evident from Math. ii, ., 4; Mark XIV,
80, etc But they could not think that He
should come from Galilee, or, rs Nathaniel
put 1t, Can there any good thing come
out of Nazareth" Chapter i, 40? They
evidently did not think of lisa, tx, /, ?, and +
of the light that was to shine in Galilee.
A. "Hath not the Scripture said that
Christ cometh of the seed of David, and y
out of the town of Bethlehem where David
was"
Yes, truly, this was all plainly written
in Ps. cxxxii, II; Mic V, 2, and other pas
sages, but not. any more plainly than the
statements concerning Galilee and Egypt
in the passages referred to in the previous