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Ask a QuestionThe neighbours therefore...said, Is not this he that sat and begged--Here are a number of details to identify the newly seeing with the long-known blind beggar.
Then said they...again, What did he to thee? &c.--hoping by repeated questions to ensnare him, but the youth is more than a match for them.
Are we blind also?--We, the constituted, recognized guides of the people in spiritual things? pride and rage prompting the question.
That the saying of Esaias...might be fulfilled--This unbelief did not at all set aside the purposes of God, but, on the contrary, fulfilled them.
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you--hold yourselves in absolute subjection to Me.
If I had not done...the works which none other...did--(See on Joh 12:37).
the apostles...sent Peter and John--showing that they regarded Peter as no more than their own equal.
And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James--(See on Mr 1:29).
The same, &c.--See what property of the Word the stress is laid upon--His eternal distinctness, in unity, from God--the Father (Joh1:2).
Why baptizest thou, if not, &c.--Thinking he disclaimed any special connection with Messiah's kingdom, they demand his right to gather disciples by baptism.
Because I said, &c.--"So quickly convinced, and on this evidence only?"--an expression of admiration.
Forty and six years--From the eighteenth year of Herod till then was just forty-six years [Josephus, Antiquities, 15.11.1].
hath set to His seal, &c.--gives glory to God whose words Christ speaks, not as prophets and apostles by a partial communication of the Spirit to them.
Murmur not...No man--that is, Be not either startled or stumbled at these sayings; for it needs divine teaching to understand them, divine drawing to submit to them.
heard that the people murmured--that mutterings to this effect were going about, and thought it high time to stop Him if He was not to be allowed to carry away the people.
Many...when they heard this...said, Of a truth, &c.--The only wonder is they did not all say it. "But their minds were blinded."
Ye judge after the flesh--with no spiritual apprehension. I judge no man.
Jesus walked...in Solomon's porch--for shelter. This portico was on the east side of the temple, and Josephus says it was part of the original structure of Solomon [Antiquities, 20.9.7].
if he sleep, he shall do well--literally, "be preserved"; that is, recover. "Why then go to Judea?"
six days before the passover--that is, on the sixth day before it; probably after sunset on Friday evening, or the commencement of the Jewish sabbath preceding the passover.
without me--apart, or vitally disconnected from Me. ye can do nothing--spiritually, acceptably.
Alford confesses that the non-mention of the "lady" herself here seems rather to favor the hypothesis that a Church is meant.
must needs go through Samaria--for a geographical reason, no doubt, as it lay straight in his way, but certainly not without a higher design.
Then they went out, &c.--How different from the Jews! and richly was their openness to conviction rewarded.
thirty and eight years--but not all that time at the pool. This was probably the most pitiable of all the cases, and therefore selected.
I receive not honour from men--contrasting His own end with theirs, which was to obtain human applause.
Do the rulers know, &c.--Have they got some new light in favor of His claims?
Whither will he go, &c.--They cannot comprehend Him, but seem awed by the solemn grandeur of His warning. He takes no notice, however, of their questions.
Nicodemus--reappearing to us after nearly three years' absence from the history, as a member of the council, probably then sitting.
as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from birth--and who "sat begging" (Joh 9:8).