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scribes and Pharisees--foiled in their yesterday's attempt, and hoping to succeed better in this.
in proverbs--in obscure language, opposed to "showing plainly"--that is, by the Spirit's teaching.
not that Light--(See on Joh 5:35). What a testimony to John to have to explain that "he was not that Light!" Yet was he but a foil to set it off, his night-taper dwindling before the Dayspring from...
left Judea--to avoid persecution, which at that early stage would have marred His work. departed into Galilee--by which time John had been cast into prison (Mr1:14).
Jesus baptized not--John being a servant baptized with his own hand; Christ as the Master, "baptizing with the Holy Ghost," administered the outward symbol only through His disciples.
Destroy this temple, &c.--(See on Mr 14:58, 59).
If I...witness of myself--standing alone, and setting up any separate interest.
ye also deceived--In their own servants this seemed intolerable.
My sheep hear my voice, &c.--(See on Joh 10:8).
three hundred pence--between nine and ten pounds sterling.
my children--members of the Church: confirming the view that the "elect lady" is a Church.
Abijah--one of the ancestors of John the Baptist (Lu 1:5).
That ye love one another, &c.--(See on Joh 13:34, 35).
I will not--rather as Greek, "I wish not...to write" more.
baptism of John--his whole ministry and mission, of which baptism was the seal.
Aenon...Salim--on the west of Jordan. (Compare Joh 3:26 with Joh1:28).
he wrote of me--"an important testimony to the subject of the whole Pentateuch--'of Me'" [Alford].
doctrine...not mine, &c.--that is, from Myself unauthorized; I am here by commission.
Judge not, &c.--that is, Rise above the letter into the spirit of the law.
sought to take...none laid hands--their impotence being equal to their malignity.
Who art thou?--hoping thus to extort an explicit answer; but they are disappointed.
this did not Abraham--In so doing ye act in direct opposition to him.
he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep--a true, divinely recognized shepherd.
And we--John and his readers (not as 1Jo 4:14, the apostles only). known and believed--True faith, according to John, is a faith of knowledge and experience: true knowledge is a knowledge of faith...
Nicodemus--In this member of the Sanhedrim sincerity and timidity are seen struggling together.
after two days--literally, the two days of His stay at Sychar.