But this is the command of God, That men should believe on his Son, 1Jo 3:23. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. Understand the meaning of John 3:36 using all available Bible versions and commentary. Clarke's Commentary. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. John 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. A person does not have to do anything to become lost. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. He borewitness that:"The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. #1 "He must become greater;". 1John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. They wonder, as they had murmured before (John 7:12-15); but Jesus shows that the desire to do God's will is the condition of spiritual understanding. But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose." It is a present possession. The Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "shall abide upon him"; so some copies. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. Follow the buttons in the right-hand column for detailed definitions and verses that use the same . John 3:2 Greek him; John 3:3 Or from above; the Greek is purposely ambiguous and can mean both again and from above; also verse 7; John 3:6 The same Greek word means both wind and spirit; John 3:7 The Greek for you is plural here; John 3:8 The same Greek word means both wind and spirit; John 3:11 The Greek for you is plural here; also four times in verse 12 . We should also not lose sight of the fact that when Jesus was speaking to Nicodemus, the ordinance of Christian baptism was not yet in effect. He bore witness that: "The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him." John was to bear witness that Jesus Christ came from heaven as the . The chapter pursues this subject, showing that it is not only God who thus deals first, with the necessity of man before His own immutable nature; next, blessing according to the riches of His grace but, further, that man's state morally is detected yet more awfully in presence of such grace as well as holiness in Christ. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. The Lord Jesus said: " He that believes on the Son has everlasting life." " [T]he water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Of this we learn nothing, here. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. (Read John 3:22-36) John was fully satisfied with the place and work assigned him; but Jesus came on a more important work. Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Greek Scripture. He that believeth on the Son Who is a proper object of faith and trust; which, if he was not truly and properly God, he would not be: and this is to be understood not of any sort of faith, a temporary, or an historical one; but of that which is the faith of God's elect, the gift of God, and the operation of his Spirit; by which a man sees the Son, goes unto him, ventures and relies . "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. By the grace of God, John had come to know and appreciate the true identity of Jesus Christ. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. And they asked him, What then? Do any believe on His name? He enjoys addressing civic groups on local government issues and elections. This was necessary for the kingdom of God; not for some special place of glory, but for any and every part of God's kingdom. No charge could be remoter from the truth. This scripture tells us about the endless affection God demonstrated by sacrificing His only begotten son . Let them learn, then, that as Son of man (for which nature they despised Him, and denied His essential personal glory) He will judge; and this judgment will be no passing visitation, such as God has accomplished by angels or men in times past. Flesh and world are judged morally. John Gorney Love this app and will recommend it to others as well. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. Categories . He also knew that Jesus would increase in honour and influence, for of his government and peace there would be no end, while he himself would be less followed. 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. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. John is published weekly in The Inquisitor, bi-monthly in The Forum News, and frequently in the Shreveport Times. Further, if Jesus had made such a statement, He would have contradicted numerous other Bible passages that make it clear that salvation is by faith (John 3:16; John 3:36; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5). Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. FOR HOME USE ONLY (for church or group use see links below)Buy this Video here:https://www.seedsfamilyworship.com/product/i-believe-john-336/Buy I Believe DV. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! Such is the miserable condition of the sinner! It is not merely a Messiah, who comes and offers Himself, as we find in other gospels, with most painstaking diligence, and presented to their responsibility; but here from the outset the question is viewed as closed. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. The words of Jesus were the words of God; he had the Spirit, not by measure, as the prophets, but in all fulness. And John told us thatwe receive this gift by grace through faith so that all who believe in Jesus would not perish but have everlasting life. The wrath of God: "The word does not mean a sudden gust of passion or a burst of temper. 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. In love, God sent his Son to die for all in order to forgive and accept all, in Christ. In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. 1John 2:25 And this is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. God wants people to be saved (2 Peter 3:9 . All rights reserved. So it's only really news when a great musician or band puts out a turgid stinker. (Ver. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. Abideth on him. It is not a question of the law, but of hearing Christ's word, and believing Him who sent Christ: he that does so has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. And such was Jesus. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. God has given Christ the power and authority to bestow everlasting life on all who trust in Him for their salvation and it is granted simply by believing on Him: "For He who believes in the Son has eternal life." God cannot require for justification (whether initial or "final") both a faith that works and a faith that does not work or is apart from works. Safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity assessments included adverse events, laboratory evaluations, and positivity for anti-John Cunningham virus antibodies and antinatalizumab antibodies.Results A total of 264 participants (mean [SD] age, 36.7 [9.38] years; 162 [61.4%] female) received treatment with biosim-NTZ (n = 131) or ref-NTZ (n = 133). The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. 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. For He who spoke was divine. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? John 7:38; John 7:38) And then we have the comment of the Holy Ghost: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)" There is, first, the thirsty soul coming to Jesus and drinking; then there is the power of the Spirit flowing forth from the inner man of the believer in refreshment to others. Such shall live. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. And as life is in the person of the Son, so God in sending Him meant not that the smallest uncertainty should exist for aught so momentous. As this chapter sets forth the Lord Jesus with singular fulness of glory, on the side both of His Godhead and of His manhood, so it closes with the most varied and remarkable testimonies God has given to us, that there may be no excuse. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." As there is an absolute necessity on God's part that man should be thus born anew, so He lets him know there is an active grace of the Spirit, as the wind blows where it will, unknown and uncontrolled by man, for every one that is born of the Spirit, who is sovereign in operation. (c) Shall not enjoy. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. Art thou that prophet? John 3:16 teaches us that anyone who believes in Jesus Christ, God's Son, will be saved. Fortunately, the issue does not have to be decided. The Bible says, " He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God stays on him " (John 3:36). His opposition to sin, and its terrible effects in this world and the next. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. Here we see Him accepting, not as fellow-servant, but as Lord, those souls who had been under the training of the predicted messenger of Jehovah that was to prepare His way before, His face. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Abideth on him. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. And as he was by nature a child of wrath, Ephesians 2:3, subject and exposed to the wrath of God, so that wrath abideth on him: being justified by faith, he hath peace with God, Romans 5:1. 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. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." John the Baptist was the earthly witness that God used to present His dearly beloved Son to the world. Nay, "the world knew him not." What does this verse really mean? "The law was given by Moses." The present tense. What Does It Really Mean That Your Body Is a Temple? But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. (Ver. I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. Life is in the Son, and He who has the Son has life and there is no condemnation to those that have placed their faith in Him. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. (Ver. Do they receive Him not? But then again, as science fiction wri ter Theodore Sturgeon once said, when asked why so much science fiction was garbage, 90% of everything is crap. Here is John 3:16 in 22 different English Bible . Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. 2.Geneva Study BibleHe that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not {c} see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (Ver. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Abideth on him - This implies that he is "now" under the wrath of God, or under condemnation. Her life is laid before her by His voice, and she confesses to Him that God Himself spoke to her in His words: "Sir [said she], I perceive that thou art a prophet." And he saith, I am not. He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. "He must, increase, but I decrease." Man might pull Him down destroy Him, as far as man could, and surely to be the basis in God's hand of better blessing; but He was God, and in three days He would raise up this temple. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. His opposition to sin, and its terrible effects in this world and the next. In the beginning of the chapter it was rather an essential indispensable action of the Holy Ghost required; here it is the privilege of the Holy Ghost given. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. Has or is in possession of that which is a recovery from spiritual death, and which will result in eternal life in heaven. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. 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. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children.
(John 3:36 KJV). "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. This is the same idea explained in Scriptures such as John 3:18-19, Romans 1:20, and Romans 3:11. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. John 5:19-29), It is evident, then, that the Lord presents life in Himself as the true want of man, who was not merely infirm but dead. These two positions are mutually exclusive. It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. 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. For this is the work of God as well asthe command of God to all who are dead in their trespasses and sins: Believe in Him Whom He has sent, believe in Christ's finished work for the forgiveness sins and life everlasting. hath everlasting life; he has it in Christ his head, in whom he believes; he has a right unto it through the justifying righteousness of Christ, and a meetness for it by his grace; he has it in faith and hope; he has the beginning of it in the knowledge of Christ, and communion with him; he has some foretastes of it in his present experience; and he has the earnest and pledge of it in his heart, even the blessed Spirit, who works him up for this selfsame thing: and he that believeth not the Son; that does not believe Christ to be the Son of God, or Jesus to be the Messiah; or rejects him as the Saviour; who lives and dies in a state of impenitence and unbelief: shall not see life; eternal life; he shall not enter into it, and enjoy it; he shall die the second death. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. Today, the phrase "born again" can have any one of a host of meanings. Hath everlasting life He has already the seed of this life in his soul, having been made a partaker of the grace and spirit of him in whom he has believed. Note.How flatly does this contradict the teaching of many in our day, that there neither was, nor is, anything in God against sinners which needed to be removed by Christ, but only in men against God! The ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. Compare wrath of the Lamb (Revelation 6:16). (Ver. I pray that I might live for Him. (John 12:48). Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. Shall never enter heaven.The wrath of God - The anger of God for sin. Warning: spoilers for the Season 1 finale of 1923, "Nothing Left to Lose" beyond this point. 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. John was not yet cast into prison. John knew that Jesus came from heaven as the Son of God, while he was a sinful, mortal man, who could only speak about the more plain subjects of religion. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." The Bible is an anthology - a compilation of texts of a variety of forms - originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. JOHN 3:16 16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. 03 Mar 2023 15:00:59 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary36. Very remarkable are the following words of the Jews F2 concerning the Messiah, whom they call the latter Redeemer: Proud member Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleHe that believeth on the Son,. Who is a proper object of faith and trust; which, if he was not truly and properly God, he would not be: and this is to be understood not of any sort of faith, a temporary, or an historical one; but of that which is the faith of God's elect, the gift of God, and the operation of his Spirit; by which a man sees the Son, goes unto him, ventures and relies upon him, and commits himself to him, and expects life and salvation from him; and who shall not be ashamed and confounded; for such an one hath everlasting life; he has it in Christ his head, in whom he believes; he has a right unto it through the justifying righteousness of Christ, and a meetness for it by his grace; he has it in faith and hope; he has the beginning of it in the knowledge of Christ, and communion with him; he has some foretastes of it in his present experience; and he has the earnest and pledge of it in his heart, even the blessed Spirit, who works him up for this selfsame thing: and he that believeth not the Son; that does not believe Christ to be the Son of God, or Jesus to be the Messiah; or rejects him as the Saviour; who lives and dies in a state of impenitence and unbelief: shall not see life; eternal life; he shall not enter into it, and enjoy it; he shall die the second death.