The Pulpit Commentary - John 12:27-30
(2) The anticipation of Gethsemane . read more
John 12:27
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - John 12:27-30
Through trouble to triumph. I. JESUS IN TROUBLE . He was not a stranger to trouble, but this was a special one. 1. Trouble arising from a vivid realization of his approaching death and sufferings . They already cast their awful shadows upon his pure soul. The unparalleled tragedy of his death, with all its sinfulness on the part of his foes, and all its cruelties, agonies, and shame, was now acted in his soul, and it caused him to shudder. He was far from being a coward,... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 12:27
Now is my soul troubled - The mention of his death brought before him its approaching horrors, its pains, its darkness, its unparalleled woes. Jesus was full of acute sensibility, and his human nature shrunk from the scenes through which he was to pass. See Luke 23:41-44.What shall I say? - This is an expression denoting intense anxiety and perplexity. As if it were a subject of debate whether he could bear those sufferings; or whether the work of man’s redemption should be abandoned, and he... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 12:27
John 12:27. Now is my soul troubled Our Lord, having uttered what is above recorded, seems to have paused for a while, and entered on a deep contemplation of the very different scene which lay before him; the prospect of which moved him to such a degree, that he uttered his grief in these and the following doleful words. For he had various foretastes of his passion before he fully entered into it. And what shall I say? Not, What shall I choose? for his heart was fixed in choosing the will... read more
Donald C. Fleming
Bridgeway Bible Commentary - John 12:27-50
137. Final message to the Jews (John 12:27-50)Jesus trembled as he thought of the suffering that awaited him, but he was determined to finish the work he had come to do. He prayed that through his death he would glorify his Father, and his Father responded in a voice from heaven that the prayer would be answered (John 12:27-29). As the startled onlookers were wondering what they had heard, Jesus told them that the time for Satan’s defeat was approaching. Through Jesus’ crucifixion, people of... read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - John 12:27
Now = At this moment. Not the "Now" of John 11:1 , John 11:5 . soul. Greek. psuche; here used in the personal sense = I myself: App-110 . troubled . Compare John 11:33 ; John 13:21 ; John 14:1 , John 14:27 . and what shall I say? , &c. Supply the Ellipses ( App-6 ) that follow, thus: (Shall I say) "Father, save Me from this hour? "(No!) It is for this cause I am come to this hour. (I will say) "Father, glorify Thy name". Father . App-98 . See John 1:14 . read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - John 12:27
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour.The English Revised Version (1885) margin has "save me from this hour?" interrogatively, which is necessary to sustain the thought. It means that Jesus would thus have prayed if his purpose had been otherwise than that of dying to save men.Is my soul troubled ... The events unfolding before Jesus were extremely ugly and tragic, not simply for himself, but also in the profound... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - John 12:27-28
John 12:27-28. Now is my soul troubled:— Having taken a view of his own sufferings, and proposed them as an example to his disciples, the prospect moved him to a great degree, and he discovered to them the conflict which he felt in his bosom: "Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Shall I say, Father, save me from this hour? (for so the passage evidently should be read and pointed) No, I will not say this, since for this very cause I came unto this hour." Our Lord's application to his... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - John 12:27
27, 28. Now is my soul troubled—He means at the prospect of His death, just alluded to. Strange view of the Cross this, immediately after representing it as the hour of His glory! (John 12:23). But the two views naturally meet, and blend into one. It was the Greeks, one might say, that troubled Him. Ah! they shall see Jesus, but to Him it shall be a costly sight. and what shall I say?—He is in a strait betwixt two. The death of the cross was, and could not but be, appalling to His spirit. But... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - John 12:27-28
The soul-conflict of Christ. Only now and again do we observe the Savior's regard turned inwardly upon himself, upon his own feelings and anticipations. Usually his thoughts and his speech concerned others. But in this passage of his ministry he gives us an insight into his inmost heart. I. THE CRISIS OF THIS CONFLICT . The approach of the Greeks marks "the beginning of the end." Now the Son of man began to feel by anticipation the burden of the cross. Opposition and... read more