Chapter 12:
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John 12
Verse 1. Six days before the passover - Namely, on the Sabbath: that
which was called by the Jews, "The Great Sabbath." This whole
week was anciently termed "The great and holy week." Jesus
came - From Ephraim, chap. xi, 54.
Verse
2. It seems Martha was a person of some figure, from the great
respect which was paid to her and her sister, in visits and
condolences on Lazarus's death, as well as from the costly
ointment mentioned in the next verse. And probably it was at their
house our Lord and his disciples lodged, when he returned from
Jerusalem to Bethany, every evening of the last week of his life,
upon which he was now entered.
Verse
3. Then Mary, taking a pound of ointment - There were two
persons who poured ointment on Christ. One toward the
beginning of his ministry, at or near Nain, Luke vii, 37, &c. The
other six days before his last passover, at Bethany; the account of
whom is given here, as well as by St. Matthew and Mark.
Verse
7. Against the day of my burial - Which now draws nigh.
Verse
10. The chief priests consulted, how to kill Lazarus also - Here is
the plain reason why the other evangelists, who wrote while
Lazarus was living, did not relate his story.
Verse
12. The next day - On Sunday. Who were come to the feast - So
that this multitude consisted chiefly of Galileans, not men of
Jerusalem. Matt. xxi, 8.
Verse
13. Psalm cxviii, 26; Mark xi, 8; Luke xix, 36.
Verse
15. Fear not - For his meekness forbids fear, as well as the end of
his coming. Zech. ix, 9.
Verse
16. These things his disciples understood not at first - The design
of God's providential dispensations is seldom understood at first.
We ought therefore to believe, though we understand not, and to
give ourselves up to the Divine disposal. The great work of faith
is, to embrace those things which we knew not now, but shall
know hereafter. When he had been glorified - At his ascension.
Verse
17. When he called Lazarus out of the tomb - How admirably
does the apostle express, as well the greatness of the miracle, as
the facility with which it was wrought! The easiness of the
Scripture style on the most grand occurrences, is more sublime
than all the pomp of orators.
Verse
18. The multitude went to meet him, because they heard - From
those who had seen the miracle. So in a little time both joined
together, to go before and to follow him.
Verse
20. Certain Greeks - A prelude of the Gentile Church. That these
were circumcised does not appear. But they came up on purpose
to worship the God of Israel.
Verse
21. These came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee - Perhaps they
used to lodge there, in their journey to Jerusalem. Or they might
believe, a Galilean would be more ready to serve them herein,
than a Jew. Sir - They spake to him, as to one they were little
acquainted with. We would see Jesus - A modest request. They
could scarce expect that he would now have time to talk with
them.
Verse
23. The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified -
With the Father and in the sight of every creature. But he must
suffer first.
Verse
24. Unless a grain of wheat die - The late resurrection of Lazarus
gave our Lord a natural occasion of speaking on this subject. And
agreeable to his infinite knowledge, he singles out, from among so
many thousands of seeds, almost the only one that dies in the
earth: and which therefore was an exceeding proper similitude,
peculiarly adapted to the purpose for which he uses it. The like is
not to be found in any other grain, except millet, and the large
bean.
Verse
25. He that loveth his life - More than the will of God; shall lose it
eternally: and he that hateth his life - In comparison of the will of
God, shall preserve it. Matt. x, 39.
Verse
26. Let him follow me - By hating his life: and where I am - In
heaven. If any man serve me - Thus, him will the Father honour.
Verse
27. Now is my soul troubled - He had various foretastes of his
passion. And what shall I say? - Not what shall I choose? For his
heart was fixed in choosing the will of his Father: but he laboured
for utterance. The two following clauses, Save me from this hour -
For this cause I came - Into the world; for the sake of this hour (of
suffering) seem to have glanced through his mind in one moment.
But human language could not so express it.
Verse
28. Father, glorify thy name - Whatever I suffer. Now the trouble
was over. I have glorified it - By thy entrance into this hour. And I
will glorify it - By thy passing through it.
Verse
29. The multitude who stood and heard - A sound, but not the
distinct words - In the most glorious Revelations there may
remain something obscure, to exercise our faith. Said, It
thundered -Thunder did frequently attend a voice from heaven.
Perhaps it did so now.
Verse
31. Now - This moment. And from this moment Christ thirsted
more than ever, till his baptism was accomplished. Is the
judgment of this world - That is, now is the judgment given
concerning it, whose it shall be. Now shall the prince of this world
- Satan, who had gained possession of it by sin and death, be cast
out -That is, judged, condemned, cast out of his possession, and
out of the bounds of Christ's kingdom.
Verse
32. Lifted up from the earth - This is a Hebraism which signifies
dying. Death in general is all that is usually imported. But our
Lord made use of this phrase, rather than others that were
equivalent, because it so well suited the particular manner of his
death. I will draw all men - Gentiles as well as Jews. And those
who follow my drawings, Satan shall not be able to keep.
Verse
34. How sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? - How
can these things be reconciled? Very easily. He first dies, and then
abideth for ever. Who is this Son of man? - Is he the Christ?
Psalm cx, 4.
Verse
35. Then Jesus said to them - Not answering them directly, but
exhorting them to improve what they had heard already. The light
- I and my doctrine.
Verse
36. The children of light - The children of God, wise, holy, happy.
Verse
37. Though he had done so many miracles before them - So that
they could not but see them.
Verse
38. The arm of the Lord - The power of God manifested by Christ,
in his preaching, miracles, and work of redemption. Isaiah liii, 1.
Verse
39. Therefore now they could not believe - That is, by the just
judgment of God, for their obstinacy and wilful resistance of the
truth, they were at length so left to the hardness of their hearts,
that neither the miracles nor doctrines of our Lord could make any
impression upon them.
Verse
40. Isaiah vi, 10; Matt. xiii, 14; Acts xxviii, 26.
Verse
41. When he saw his glory - Christ's, Isaiah vi, 1, &c. And it is
there expressly said to be the glory of the Lord, Jehovah, the
Supreme God.
Verse
44. Jesus said with a loud voice - This which follows to the end of
the chapter, is with St. John the epilogue of our Lord's public
discourses, and a kind of recapitulation of them. Believeth not on
me - Not on me alone, but also on him that sent me: because the
Father hath sent the Son, and because he and the Father are one.
Verse
45. And he that seeth me - By the eye of faith.
Verse
47. I judge him not - Not now: for I am not come to judge the
world. See, Christ came to save even them that finally perish!
Even these are a part of that world, which he lived and died to
save.
Verse
50. His commandment - Kept, is life everlasting - That is the way
to it, and the beginning of it.
Chapter 12:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Luke Acts
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