Copy Print Similar Verses Save Share This Verse: Translation Details for John 4:16 The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The Jews were not satisfied with that, but demanded still that he should be put to death, John 19:39-40. 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. 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. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. Flesh and world are judged morally. 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. 1. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. So it must be now; for God is revealed; and the Father in grace seeks true worshippers (be they Samaritans or Jews) to worship Him. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. (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? go, call thy husband, and come hither; go directly from hence to the city of Sychar, and call thy husband, and come back hither along with him again: this Christ said, not to have him come to teach and instruct him, and as if he would more readily and easily understand him, and that he might be with her, a partaker of the same grace; but to bring on some further conversation, by which she would understand that he knew her state and condition, and what a course of life she now lived, and so bring her under a conviction of her sin and danger, and need of him and his grace. God does not here condescend to call it His, though, of course, it was His and holy, just, and good, both in itself and in its use, if used lawfully. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. It is found also in the omissions of all the material of the Synoptics down to the passion. In this podcast we refer to Being Disciples by Rowan Williams, a terrific sermon by Rev Dr John 4:16. Alas! They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? How little they conceived of what was then said and done! So bright was His glory, so concerned was the Father in maintaining it, so immense the blessing if received, so tremendous the stake involved in its loss, that God vouchsafed the amplest and clearest witnesses. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. Realizing that the woman would have to see her personal sin before she could see her spiritual need, Jesus began to speak of her marital affairs. 18 There is no fear in love. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. 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. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. What you have just said is quite true.. This would make all manifest. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. (Ver. God is love. 1 John 4:16-19. The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. God is love. WebJohn repeats that people must believe in Jesus as the Son of God in order to be saved, and that love for God is inseparable from love for Gods people (5:1). Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. 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. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Just as distinct and beyond comparison is His testimony who, coming from heaven and above all, testifies what He saw and heard, however it might be rejected. The result immediately follows. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. 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. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. Nor will the full force of this expression be witnessed till the glorious result of His blood shedding sweep away the last trace of sin in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. This we have had fully before. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Even now faith knows, that instead of sin being the great object before God, ever since the cross He has had before His eyes that sacrifice which put away sin. It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. And in this He is sovereign. Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. (Verses John 5:17-18). Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. This is grace and truth. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. The same God who did not leave Himself without witness among the heathen, doing good, and giving from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, did not fail, in the low estate of the Jews, to work by providential power at intervals; and, by the troubled waters of Bethesda, invited the sick, and healed the first who stepped in of whatever disease he had. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. There He supposes His full rejection and death. (Ver. So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. Also called john mule . God loves us as a father loves his own son. WebPulpit Commentary Verse 19. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. 9 The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 1. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. The apostle attests this. Such shall live. Simon was one of the commonest names at the time (along with Jesus, Joseph, John and Levi), and so he is distinguished from others by his nickname, which Matthew assumes he has already been given; we hear of an earlier (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. (Ver. (Ver. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. 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." WebJohn 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. What you have just said is quite true. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. Jan 16, 2023 at 9:27 am. Surely He was there, a weary man outside Judaism; but God, the God of all grace, who humbled Himself to ask a drink of water of her, that He might give the richest and most enduring gift, even water which, once drank, leaves no thirst for ever and ever yea, is in him who drinks a fountain of water springing up unto everlasting life. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. (Ver. John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. (ver. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. John 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. 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. Of this we learn nothing, here. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. He acts as such. And he answered, No. Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, but withal, as he had said, the eternal One, yet in view of His manifestation to Israel (and, therefore, John was come baptizing with water a reason here given, but not to the Pharisees in verses 25-27). A. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. 42 And he brought him to Jesus. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. John 19 Jesus Is Crucified A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. 1. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 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? NIV. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. All others prove not only that they are bad, but that they hate perfect goodness, and more than that, life and light the true light in the Word. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. 2. : an apostle who according to various Christian traditions wrote the fourth Gospel, the three Johannine Epistles, and the Book of And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." What Makes Covenant Theology So Important? Jesus not only could go up, as He did later, but He had come down thence, and, even though man, He was the Son of man that is in heaven. This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. a male mule, or more Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. 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. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 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. 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. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. His joy was that of a friend of the Bridegroom (to whom, not to him, the bride belonged), and now fulfilled as he heard the Bridegroom's voice. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. 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. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Spite of the most express signs, and the manifest finger of God that wrote the ten words on tables of stone, the law sinks into comparative insignificance. 17 This is how love is made complete What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? If He put forth His power, it was not only beyond man's measure, but unequivocally divine, however also the humblest and most dependent of men. The refusal of His precious blood will, on the contrary, make their case incomparably worse than that of the heathen who never heard the good news. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and I work. ; John )! 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