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John vii, 37-Commontary by the Rev.
ID. NJ. stoarns.
Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by |
permission of III. S. Hoffman, publisher, Phil |
adelphia-l
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 doneW
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
mama and the passover feast; these are in
connection with the feast of tabernacles
(verse q, which points us forward to the
coming kingdom of Israel and the time Of
blessing upon all nations Czech. xiv, 10, ~.
81. "The Pharisees heard that the people
murmured such things concerning Him;
and the Pharsees and the chief priests sent
officers TO take Him"
Always hating Him, and always seeking
to kill Him, but unable to touch Him till
His work was done (chapter viii, 20; xiii, u.
Processing to be children of God and the
true seed 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, 42-44).
SO. "Then said Jesus unto them, Yet
little while am with you, and then / go
unto Him that sent me-"
Over thirty times in this gospel He
speaks of the Father sending Him.
"a. eye shall seek me and shall not find
me. And where l am, thither ye cannot
come"
Now, lie had before said that He that
seeketh fndeth" (Math. vi, 81, but there is
frff No MI tal il.
sayings in the light of all his other say
ings, aye shall seek me, and find me,
when ye shall search for me with all your
heart" der. xxx, l5) This kind Of seek
ing never fails.
49, "Then said the Jews among them
selves, Whittier will He go that we shall
not fad Him2 Will He 20 unto the dis
persed among the Gentiles, and teach the
Gentiles"
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
tons 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
find me. And where l am, thither ye can
not Gomez
II He could find His way to any part Of
the earth, why could not they follow Him
If they saw fit2 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 fashion be the theme, and they have no
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,
butthe eighth day, the last day Of the feast,
was n special day QLev. xviii, SO; Mum.
xxx, $685. Although the special sacri
fees offered on this day were less than or
any other day of the feast, being only ter
as compared with thirty on the first day
(Num. xxx, l2-16, 35-3S), yet it was in i'm
portance the great day, the most solemn
and holy Of all the days (Neh. viii, 49,.
80. Gle that believeth on me, as thu
Scripture hath said, out Of his belly shall
flow rivers Of living water"
To the woman at the well He said, "Th'
water that / shall give him shall be in hin
well of water springing up into everlast
ing life" Gv, ~; but this is even in advanc'
OF that, for here He speaks Of rivers o
living water going forth from the limos
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, AM
from the Garden Of Eden TO the ney
heavens and earth, the spirit is the might
worker, or, as some one has said, THE III
ecutive Of the Godhead." To see the dill
ference between an ordinary believer an
one filed with the spirit we have only I
consider Peter before and after Pentecost.
"For the Holy Ghost was not yet, becaus
that Jesus was not yet glorified."
The Holy Spirit, while in all ages Tn
great worker, had up TO this time not bee
given as He was at PentecOst, and tn
reason "a mentioned in this verse. He ha
testified through the prophets of comm
Messiah and kingdom. He now testifi'
to a Messiah who came, was rejected an
crucifed, rose from the dead and is no
glorifed at the right hand Of God. As 7
ter by the Spirit testified, "God hath mao
that same Jesus, whom ye have crucihe'
both Lord and Christ" (Acts ii, 36).
40. MANY Of the people therefore, whe
they heard this saying, said, OF a truth tn
Is the prophet"
Just as after the feeding of the five tho
81, sand the people said, THIS IS OF trut
= that prophet that should come into Il
> world" John vi, ~. When John the Ba
fist said that he was not the Christ NJ
Elijah, they then asked if he was 9TH
prophet" CHAP. l. 20, 81. The passai
which they had in mind vas probab
Deut xviii, IS, 81 will raise them up
prophet from among their lAethren Ill
unto thee, and will put my words In II
mouth, and He shall speak unto them o
that shall command Him"
Al. "Others said, This is the Christ. b
some said, Shall Christ come out of Ga
leeY
They now think it possible that lie mi
be the King Of Israel. the Son Of David,
foretold in II Sam. viii II, 10; lisa. TX, o,
That the Christ or Messiah was understo
to be the King Of the Jews, and so look
for, is evident from Math. ii, 2, 4; Mark \
30, etc But they could not think that
should come from Galilee, or, as Nathani
put it, "Can there any good thing col
out of Nazareth" (chapter !, 46)t tn
evidently did not think Of lisa. tx, !, 2, a
OF the light that was TO shine in Galilee.
AZ. "Hath not the Scripture said u
y Christ cometh Of the seed OF David,
-. - 49, ,o,-r ~ Rathlehern where Da'