John 12

The Pulpit Commentary - John 12:28-29

A heavy thunder-cloud seems to hang over him; for a moment a break in the darkness, a rift in the clouds, presents itself, and, though he might have prayed for legions of angels, he did not. The second Adam knows the issue of the tremendous trial, and, in full apprehension of the answer to his deepest prayer, he cries, Father, glorify thy Name . The "thy" is emphatic. A contrast is implied between the eternal glory and the glory of the Christ. "I am thine; thou art mine;" "Thy will be done;"... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 12:30

Jesus answered to the confused murmur of remark, and said, This voice hath not come for my sake, but for your sakes . This surely establishes, on the authority of Jesus, the objective character of the revelation. "It was necessary that you should hear and know and feel who and what I am." Ever thinking of others, living in them, he thinks of their spiritual advantage now. Thoma says that whereas the whole scene corresponds with the synoptic account of Gethsemane, it is idealized on the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 12:31

Still more emphatically does Christ expound the heavenly voice, and vindicate for himself the most solemn position with reference to the world and its prince. The" world," or humanity evolving itself to the highest form of a complicated civilization, was present to him far more vividly than when the tempter showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them. Instead of holding them in royal fee of the devil, and of compelling them to do his bidding, he declares that his hour, which... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 12:31-36

5. The judgment of this world . read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 12:32

Divine attraction. The shadow of the cross lay athwart the path of Jesus. His soul was troubled, for the hour was come. The grain of wheat was about to fall into the soil, and there to die. Yet our Savior looked beyond the near to the distant future. He knew that, though the hour was come, it was the hour in which God should be glorified; that though the seed should die, it should bear much fruit; that though he himself was about to be lifted up from the earth, he should draw all men unto... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 12:32

The saving influence of Christ. Notice it— I. IN SOME OF ITS CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES . 1. It is the influence of the greatest Person . "And I," etc. To know something about influence, let us ask who influences? 2. The influence of the greatest Person, having made the greatest sacrifice . "And I, if I be lifted up." The incarnate Word laid down his life as a sacrifice for sin. This sacrifice is infinite, perfect, and matchless. 3. The influence of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 12:32

The all-attracting Jesus. I. THE AIMS AND HOPES OF JESUS DIFFERENT FROM THOSE TO WHOM HE SPOKE . Those who questioned and criticized him cared for no country but their own. Not that they were ignorant of other Countries, for they went to live in them, but they still kept communion and close touch with Jerusalem. The Jew liked to make money out of the Gentile, and so he would go and live in the Gentile city, but it never seemed to strike him that the God of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 12:32-33

And I, if I be lifted out of (or, from ) the earth, will draw all (men) to myself. Now this he spake, signifying by what death he was about to die . ὑψωθῶ has been by Meyer, as well as many of the Fathers, referred to the Lord's resurrection and ascension. The ἐκ τῆς γῆς would certainly be in favor of it, and be a possible rendering if we hold (with Westcott and others) that resurrection and uplifting from the earth involve and presuppose a previous death, or that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 12:34

The audience of Jesus on this occasion has swollen into a vast group. The few Greeks, with Philip and Andrew, the other disciples, the smaller circle of sympathetic listeners, the disturbed and feverish crowd, are all about him, as he claims by death itself to judge the world, to win all men, and east out the spirit and prince of the world from his usurped throne. The multitude then £ answered him, We heard —received information by public teaching— out of the Law that the Christ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 12:34

The Son of man. Perplexity and inquiry mingle in this question which the Jews were prompted to put, when they heard the language in which Jesus claimed authority in his death to gather mankind around himself. I. THE DESIGNATION APPLIED TO JESUS . The expression, "Son of man," was familiar to the Jews. 1. In the Old Testament it was used as equivalent to "man." It is applied in the Book of Ezekiel to that prophet himself, in about eighty passages. There is one passage in... read more

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