", John the Baptist was the earthly witness that God usedto present His dearly beloved Son to the world. Surely He was there, a weary man outside Judaism; but God, the God of all grace, who humbled Himself to ask a drink of water of her, that He might give the richest and most enduring gift, even water which, once drank, leaves no thirst for ever and ever yea, is in him who drinks a fountain of water springing up unto everlasting life. Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. The anger of God for sin. Yet thousands choose to remain in this state, and to encounter alone all that is terrible in the wrath of Almighty God, rather than come to Jesus, who has borne their sins in his own body on the tree, and who is willing to bless them with the peace, and purity, and joy of immortal life. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. First, Jesus is visited at night by a Pharisee, Nicodemus, who is curious about His teachings. John 3:1-36 follows this up. (Verses John 7:40-53). It will "abide" or "dwell" there as its appropriate habitation. No man hath seen God at any time. New believers also get familiar with this special truth in their relationship with God. Nevertheless, the heavenly part is little dwelt on, as John's gospel displays our Lord more as the expression of God revealed on earth, than as Man ascended to heaven, which fell far more to the province of the apostle of the Gentiles. 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." One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. The word, which occurs only here in the Gospels, is not the same as that at the beginning of the verse, and shows that the faith there intended is the subjection of the will to the Son, to whom the Father hath given all things (John 3:35). Second, the Lordship Salvation view misinterprets the significance of the present participles for "believe" and "obey" in John 3:36. He could be declared only by One who was a divine person in the intimacy of the Godhead, yea, was the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. Wayne Jackson (1997), "The Role of 'Works' in the Plan of . Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." What a witness all this to His person! 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. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary3:22-36 John was fully satisfied with the place and work assigned him; but Jesus came on a more important work. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary36. He regularly attends Shreveport City Council and Caddo Parish Commission meetings. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. The season finale saw two major developments on the "who are the parents of John II" mystery. Does anyone else find it odd that John Fetterman is hospitalized with Clinical Depression and is Co-Sponsoring Bills in the Senate? . Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. Of this we learn nothing, here. Indeed, it is the total eclipse, not merely of law and remedial mercies, but even of promised Messianic glory, by everlasting life and resurrection at the last day. Flesh and world are judged morally. Abideth on him. Compare wrath of the Lamb (Revelation 6:16). And anyone who believes in God's Son has eternal life. Here the Lord introduces the cross. (John 3:36 KJV), He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! The same God who did not leave Himself without witness among the heathen, doing good, and giving from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, did not fail, in the low estate of the Jews, to work by providential power at intervals; and, by the troubled waters of Bethesda, invited the sick, and healed the first who stepped in of whatever disease he had. The word, which occurs only here in the Gospels, is not the same as that at the beginning of the verse, and shows that the faith there intended is the subjection of the . To Him be all praise and glory forever and ever, AMEN. 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. Today, the phrase "born again" can have any one of a host of meanings. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. Such shall live. By and by He will apply it to "that nation," the Jews, as to others also, and finally (always excepting the unbelieving and evil) to the entire system, the world. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. (SeePsalms 2:1-12; Psalms 2:1-12) But the Lord tells him of greater things he, should see, and says to him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, henceforth (not "hereafter," but henceforth) ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. John 3:16 Meaning. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. All translations of John 3:36 imply that this rejection of Christ is a deliberate action. In love, God sent his Son to die for all in order to forgive and accept all, in Christ. 2) John 3:16 In The Bible. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. How was this? The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. 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. 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. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. And so, in fact, it was and is. They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. (ver. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. Compare 1 Peter 4:17; Romans 2:8; Romans 11:30, Romans 11:31. (36) Here too we have, in the words of John, thoughts which we have found already (John 3:15-16), and shall find again (), in the words of Christ Himself.He that believeth not the Son.--Better, he that obeyeth not the Son. (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? Burge favors the third view. This is the same idea explained in Scriptures such as John 3:18-19, Romans 1:20, and Romans 3:11. Nay, "the world knew him not." And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. (John 3:36 ASV), He that believes on the Son has life eternal, and he that is not subject to the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him. For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. All rights reserved. Not Jacob was there, but the Son of God in nothing but grace; and thus to the Samaritan woman, not to the teachers of Israel, are made those wonderful communications which unfold to us with incomparable depth and beauty the real source, power, and character of that worship which supersedes, not merely schismatic and rebellious Samaria, but Judaism at its best. The temptation is to hide your light. It will abide or dwell there as its appropriate habitation. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. Man, dead in sins, was the object of His grace; but then man's state was such, that it would have been derogatory to God had that life been communicated without the cross of Christ: the Son of man lifted up on it was the One in whom God dealt judicially with the evil estate of man, for the, full consequences of which He made Himself responsible. Yet thousands choose to remain in this state, and to encounter alone all that is terrible in the wrath of Almighty God, rather than come to Jesus, who has borne their sins in his own body on the tree, and who is willing to bless them with the peace, and purity, and joy of immortal life. (not ) also appears in the phrase the wrath to come (Matthew 3:7; Luke 3:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:16, etc.). It was not that they were better than their neighbours. (Ver. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. Life eternal is to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent. 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). Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. So bright was His glory, so concerned was the Father in maintaining it, so immense the blessing if received, so tremendous the stake involved in its loss, that God vouchsafed the amplest and clearest witnesses. (Ver. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. Unless a man or woman is born of the Spirit, born from above, they cannot be saved, because they are attempting to reach God the wrong way. There was purpose in it. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. It is here life begunthe first breathings and pantings of the soul for immortality; yet it is life, though at first feeble and faint, which is eternal in its nature, and which shall be matured in the full and perfect bliss of heaven. 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. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. Here is John 3:16 in 22 different English Bible . "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." 22-24); (2) John's disciples are jealous (vss. The Structure of This Text. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. Commentary on John 3:22-36. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. How truly it is man under law! His opposition to sin, and its terrible effects in this world and the next. John 3:36. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." (John 3:36 DBY), he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him. The Father and the Son were at work. 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. 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. The words of Jesus were the words of God; he had the Spirit, not by measure, as the prophets, but in all fulness. He was God. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. The Father seeks worshippers. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. As the believer hath life, so the unbeliever hath wrath abiding on him. (Ver. Jesus (c. 4 BC - AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Roman born Jewish preacher and religious leader; he is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion.Most Christians believe he is the incarnation of God the Son and the awaited Messiah (the Christ) prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. His opposition to sin, and its terrible effects in this world and the next. His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. (b) Midrash Ruth, fol. Do they receive Him not? He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. Very remarkable are the following words of the Jews (b) concerning the Messiah, whom they call the latter Redeemer: "whosoever believes in him "shall" live; but he that believes not in him shall go to the nations of the world, and they shall kill him.''. There is no more powerful way to deliver this message than to let John 3:16 speak for itself. how to get incineroar hidden ability; Home COMMENTARY What is the meaning of John 3:36? 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. 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. The Christian here has a foretaste of the world of glory, and enjoys the same kind of felicity, though not the same degree, that he will there.Shall not see life - Shall neither enjoy true life or happiness here nor in the world to come. The wrath of God. 1John 2:25 And this is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. (John 3:36 KJV). It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. (Ver. Alas! The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels.