Chapter 20:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Luke Acts
John 20
Verse 1. Matt. xxviii, 1; Mark xvi, 1; Luke xxiv, 1.
Verse
3. Peter went out - Of the city.
Verse
6. Peter seeth the linen clothes lie - and the napkin folded up - The
angels who ministered to him when he rose, undoubtedly folded
up the napkin and linen clothes.
Verse
8. He saw - That the body was not there, and believed - That they
had taken it away as Mary said.
Verse
9. For as yet - They had no thought of his rising again.
Verse
10. They went home - Not seeing what they could do farther.
Verse
11. But Mary stood - With more constancy. Mark xvi, 9.
Verse
16. Jesus saith to her, Mary - With his usual voice and accent.
Verse
17. Touch me not - Or rather, Do not cling to me (for she held him
by the feet,) Matt. xxviii, 9. Detain me not now. You will have
other opportunities of conversing with me. For I am not ascended
to my Father - I have not yet left the world. But go immediately to
my brethren - Thus does he intimate in the strongest manner the
forgiveness of their fault, even without ever mentioning it. These
exquisite touches, which every where abound in the evangelical
writings, show how perfectly Christ knew our frame. I ascend -
He anticipates it in his thoughts, and so speaks of it as a thing
already present. To my Father and your Father, to my God and
your God - This uncommon expression shows that the only-
begotten Son has all kind of fellowship with God. And a
fellowship with God the Father, some way resembling his own, he
bestows upon his brethren. Yet he does not say, Our God: for no
creature can be raised to an equality with him: but my God and
your God: intimating that the Father is his in a singular and
incommunicable manner; and ours through him, in such a kind as
a creature is capable of.
Verse
19. Mark xvi, 14 Luke xxiv, 36.
Verse
21. Peace be unto you - This is the foundation of the mission of a
true Gospel minister, peace in his own soul, 2 Cor. iv, 1. As the
Father hath sent me, so send I you - Christ was the apostle of the
Father, Heb. iii, 1. Peter and the rest, the apostles of Christ.
Verse
22. He breathed on them - New life and vigour, and saith, as ye
receive this breath out of my mouth, so receive ye the Spirit out of
my fulness: the Holy Ghost influencing you in a peculiar manner,
to fit you for your great embassy. This was an earnest of
pentecost.
Verse
23. Whose soever sins ye remit - (According to the tenor of the
Gospel, that is, supposing them to repent and believe) they are
remitted, and whose soever sins ye retain (supposing them to
remain impenitent) they are retained. So far is plain. But here
arises a difficulty. Are not the sins of one who truly repents, and
unfeignedly believes in Christ, remitted, without sacerdotal
absolution? And are not the sins of one who does not repent or
believe, retained even with it? What then does this commission
imply? Can it imply any more than,
1. A power of declaring with authority the Christian terms of
pardon; whose sins are remitted and whose retained? As in our
daily form of absolution; and
2. A power of inflicting and remitting ecclesiastical censures?
That is, of excluding from, and re-admitting into, a Christian
congregation.
Verse
26. After eight days - On the next Sunday.
Verse
28. And Thomas said, My Lord and my God - The disciples had
said, We have seen the Lord. Thomas now not only acknowledges
him to be the Lord, as he had done before, and to be risen, as his
fellow disciples had affirmed, but also confesses his Godhead, and
that more explicitly than any other had yet done. And all this he
did without putting his hand upon his side.
Verse
30. Jesus wrought many miracles, which are not written in this
book - Of St. John, nor indeed of the other evangelists.
Verse
31. But these things are written that ye may believe - That ye may
be confirmed in believing. Faith cometh sometimes by reading;
though ordinarily by hearing.
Chapter 20:
| 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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