The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1905-02-10

John v, 30-Commentnry Prepared
by Rev. ID. NJ. stenrns.
copyright 1905, by American Press Association.]
Two days He abode In Samaria and
was refreshed by seeing many receive
Him as the Christ, the Saviour Of the
world, foreshadowing of the time
when from all nations His church
should be gathered 0he age In which
we are now living, and of later age,
beyond the present, when through Is
rael all nations shall be won to Him,
fulfillment of the word, His own re-
ceived Him not, but as many as re-
ceived Him, to them He gave the right
to become the sons of God John !,
IL, 12). The first two verses of this
lesson are a little perpleXing because
they seem TO say that He went into
His own country, for prophet hath
no honor in his own country. Yet the
third verse says that the Galileans re-
ceived him, having seen all the things
that He did at Jerusalem. Nazareth,
where He had been brought up, is
called His own country duke iv, IT,
%, "a, and though He went to Gall
lee. lie did not at this time go to Naza-
reth. and these verses may signify
that. though He went to Galilee, lie
did not go to Nazareth, because a
prophet hath no honor in his own coun-
try.
Some say that He did not immediate
ly 90 into Galilee from Jerusalem, but
delayed two days in Samaria TO allow
time for those who witnessed Ills mir
acles ut Jerusalem to return home and
prepare the minds of the people for Il
favorable reception of Him. We learn
ed i'm our last lesson that He counted
it His meat to do the will Of Him that
sent Him, and in chapter V, Al, lie
says, How can ye believe which re-
ceive honor one of another and seek
not the honor that cometh from COO
onlvf" SO these verses might imply
that He went into Galilee and later
even to Nazareth (as we know He did,
because He sought honor only from
! God and not from man, and came to do
! the Fathers will. whatever it might
be and wherever it might lead.
|
who came to Him at Cana on behalf
of his son was Chuza, Herod's steward,
then Luke viii, 3, may he n sequel to
verse SO of our lesson, for we there
read that Joanna, the wife of Chuza,
| Herod's steward, and Susanna and
many others ministered unto Him OF
| their substance. At Cana He had at
| the marriage feast manifested forth
| His glory and increased the faith OF
His disciples Chapter ii, III, and here
that miracle of making water into wine
| is indorsed / refer to 1t because so
many today seek to set aside all the
supernatural, but the Bible is supernat-
ural or nothing. Jesus Is God or else
He is not good.
The boy for whom the father pleads
is not only i'll, but at the point or
| death, as was also Jairus' daughter
Mark V, 23), but nothing is too hard
for our Lord 1t matters not how i'll
or what the disease, or even If the
person has died or been buried, the
same word that said, LET there be
light" can give light or life or health
I'm n moment. He says, "Believest
thou that 1 am able to do this?' And
then, According to your faith be 1t
unto YOU" The nobleman entreated
Jesus to come down to Capernaum and
heal his son, not knowing that His
actual presence was not essential to
the healing, but having faith that If
Jesus would only come to him he could
heal him. Jesus gently tested him, for
He never tries any one above that they
are able, but his faith seems only to
strengthen, and he grows more Inn
Fortunate. Then our Lord says: GO
thy way. Thy son liveth."
This was not as the nobleman eX'
pected. 1t was different from what
He had thought. 1t was in one sense
more than he expected, but there was
power in the word and it grasped his
heart, and the glorious word is written
: ''The man believed the word that Jesus
had spoken unto him, and he went his
way" (verse J0).
The next day as he was nearing
home his servants met him with the
joyful news. "Thy son liveth!' and OF
inouiring when his boy began to meme
he learned that it was at the very houl
on the previous day when Jesus said
"Thy son liveth." 1t must have thrill
cd him with JOY to hear from his serv
ants the very words that Jesus hat
said to him the day before. But wha
Joy there was in that home which h'
had left in such gloom the day before
! And all through the love and power O
one who gave them life and breath ant
all things! But up to this time the!
had only heard Of Him, but had no
known Him. Now they knew Hin
and believed in Him. Even the who'll
household accepted Him as God thei
Saviour.
One has said that in this miracle w
see His omnipotence, in that He healed
the sick child; His omnipresence, II
that He healed him at distance o
several miles; His omniscience, in tina
He knew that His word was effectual
MS the words testified. When the dis