17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. Ver. 17. If any man will do his will ] Let knowledge and practice run parallel, and mutually transfuse vigour and vivacity, the one into the other. Keep open the passage between your heads and hearts, that every truth may go to the quick. read more
18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. Ver. 18. Seeketh his own glory ] All seducers are self-seekers, and drive on their own interests, how to set up themselves in the hearts of the people: they study their own share more than God’s, and yet they would seem to do otherwise; as those proud boasters that cried out, "Let the Lord be glorified," Isaiah 66:5 ; and the Swenckfeldians... read more
19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? Ver. 19. Did not Moses give you the law ] q.d. You bear me still an old grudge, an aching tooth, for healing an impotent man upon the sabbath day, John 5:9 . But Quis tulerit Gracchos, &c. (Juv.) Yourselves are greater sabbath breakers a fair deal. Publius Clodius (the most irreligious of all the Romans), religionem in Ciceronis domo neglectam questus est, complained of Cicero’s... read more
20 The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee? Ver. 20. Thou hast a devil ] This he passeth by as a frontless slander, not worth refuting, but proceeds to maintain the lawfulness of what he had done on the sabbath day. Sincerity throws off slanders, as Paul did the viper; yea, in a holy scorn, it laughs at them, as the wild ass does at the horse and his rider. Wicellius and Cochleus say that we betrayed the Rhodes (saith Melancthon), and some other such foul... read more
21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel. Ver. 21. And ye all marvel ] i.e. ye all murmur: but he speaks the best of them, as not willing to enrage them. read more
22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. Ver. 22. Moses therefore ] Tam severus sabbati exactor, As strict as he was for the observation of the sabbath, yet he was not against circumcision, and the healing again of the child’s wound, upon that day. And if any object that circumcision was a sacrament, and so a sabbath day’s work, it may be answered, 1. That this cure also was much to the glory... read more
23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? Ver. 23. That the law of Moses should not be broken ] Gr. loosened, shattered. The law is one entire copulative; so that he that offendeth in any point is guilty of all, James 2:10 . Hence when the sabbath was broken, the Lord said to Moses, "How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?"Exodus 16:28;... read more
24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. Ver. 24. Judge not according to the appearance ] Nothing is more ordinary with many than to precipitate a censure, to exercise their critics, and to reprehend that which they do not comprehend. Arbitror saith Augustine (de Trim i. 3), nonnullos opinaturos me sensisse quod non sensi, aut non sensisse quod sensi, I suppose that several in reading some places in my books will think that I thought that which never came... read more
25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill? Ver. 25. Then said some of them of Jerusalem ] That knew more of the ruler’s mind than the common people, who believed not that there was any such deadly designs, John 7:26 . Howbeit these wits of Jerusalem take no notice at all of God’s hand in Christ’s deliverance, and his present boldness in so extreme a danger. read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - John 7:16
16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. Ver. 16. My doctrine is not mine ] As if he had said, this should not be scandalum, sed scala; not a stumblingblock, but a ladder to lift you up to see the Divine handiwork, and to make you say, as Ezekiel 3:12 ; "Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place:" since I have my learning from above, and am (as Nicodemus acknowledged) "a teacher sent from God." read more