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John 2
Verse 1. And the third day - After he had said this. In Cana of Galilee -
There were two other towns of the same name, one in the tribe of
Ephraim, the other in Caelosyria.
Verse
2. Jesus and his disciples were invited to the marriage - Christ
does not take away human society, but sanctifies it. Water might
have quenched thirst; yet our Lord allows wine; especially at a
festival solemnity. Such was his facility in drawing his disciples at
first, who were afterward to go through rougher ways.
Verse
3. And wine falling short - How many days the solemnity had
lasted, and on which day our Lord came, or how many disciples
might follow him, does not appear. His mother saith to him, They
have not wine - Either she might mean, supply them by miracle;
or, Go away, that others may go also, before the want appears.
Verse
4. Jesus saith to her, Woman - So our Lord speaks also, chap. xix,
26. It is probable this was the constant appellation which he used
to her. He regarded his Father above all, not knowing even his
mother after the flesh. What is it to me and thee? A mild reproof
of her inordinate concern and untimely interposal. Mine hour is
not yet come - The time of my working this miracle, or of my
going away. May we not learn hence, if his mother was rebuked
for attempting to direct him in the days of his flesh, how absurd it
is to address her as if she had a right to command him, on the
throne of his glory? Likewise how indecent it is for us to direct his
supreme wisdom, as to the time or manner in which he shall
appear for us in any of the exigencies of life!
Verse
5. His mother saith to the servants - Gathering from his answer he
was about to do something extraordinary.
Verse
6. The purifying of the Jews - Who purified themselves by
frequent washings particularly before eating.
Verse
9. The governor of the feast - The bridegroom generally procured
some friend to order all things at the entertainment.
Verse
10. And saith - St. John barely relates the words he spoke, which
does not imply his approving them. When they have well drunk -
does not mean any more than toward the close of the
entertainment.
Verse
11. And his disciples believed - More steadfastly.
Verse
14. Oxen, and sheep, and doves - Used for sacrifice: And the
changers of money - Those who changed foreign money for that
which was current at Jerusalem, for the convenience of them that
came from distant countries.
Verse
15. Having made a scourge of rushes - (Which were strewed on
the ground, ) he drove all out of the temple, (that is, the court of it,
) both the sheep and the oxen - Though it does not appear that he
struck even them; and much less, any of the men. But a terror
from God, it is evident, fell upon them.
Verse
17. Psalm lxix, 9.
Verse
18. Then answered the Jews - Either some of those whom he had
just driven out, or their friends: What sign showest thou? - So they
require a miracle, to confirm a miracle!
Verse
19. This temple - Doubtless pointing, while he spoke, to his body,
the temple and habitation of the Godhead.
Verse
20. Forty and six years - Just so many years before the time of this
conversation, Herod the Great had begun his most magnificent
reparation of the temple, (one part after another, ) which he
continued all his life, and which was now going on, and was
continued thirty-six years longer, till within six or seven years of
the destruction of the state, city, and temple by the Romans.
Verse
22. They believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had
said - Concerning his resurrection.
Verse
23. Many believed - That he was a teacher sent from God.
Verse
24. He did not trust himself to them - Let us learn hence not rashly
to put ourselves into the power of others. Let us study a wise and
happy medium between universal suspiciousness and that easiness
which would make us the property of every pretender to kindness
and respect.
Verse
25. He - To whom all things are naked, knew what was in man -
Namely, a desperately deceitful heart.
Chapter 2:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
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