John 12:36-42

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 12:20-36

The Lord’s address before the Greeks, John 12:20-36. Writing mainly for Greeks, John alone reports this remarkable transaction and discourse. It brings up, dimly but significantly, the anxiety of those representatives of Greece, and the premonitions which their presence drew from Jesus, that his death was to result in the spiritual conquest of the world. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 12:34-36

34-36. From chapter 13 to chapter 17, inclusive, the Evangelist narrates the discourse of our Lord to the circle of his disciples after the close of his public ministry to the world, preparatory to his death. Previous to that John occupies the remainder of this chapter in giving the Lord’s closing utterances to the Jews. So that in fact nearly half the Gospel of John is occupied with the scenes of passion week. In this paragraph we have their final cavil and his final admonition. In... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 12:36

36. While ye have light The period for explanation is past. This people, though the light is beaming upon them, wilfully preferring their own corrupt prepossessions, shut out the light, and choose to walk in their own loved darkness. Jesus therefore gives them not interpretation but admonition. Departed Abandoned them forever. Did hide himself from them He retired to the privacy of his apostolic college. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 12:37

37. Though he had done so many miracles Though the proofs of his divine mission were so many, and were performed before them, yet, John plaintively declares, their rejection of him was positive. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 12:37-43

General summary of Jewish unbelief and rejection of Christ, John 12:37-43. The great body of the people, in spite of miraculous evidence, rejected Jesus; yet a small minority believed without the courage to avow their faith. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 12:38

38. The saying of Esaias might be fulfilled Isaiah 6:10. See note on Matthew 1:22. Says St. Chrysostom: “It was not because Isaiah said so that they did not believe, but because they would not believe, Isaiah said this.” And then, inasmuch as it was predicted, the Evangelist takes the view as if they so acted in order to make the prediction true. The passage quoted will be found in Isaiah 53:1. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 12:39

39. Therefore they could not believe For the reason assigned in our note on John 5:44, that they had intrenched themselves in the opposite error; so long as they would hold fast that error, the reception of truth was impossible they could not believe. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 12:40

40. He hath blinded their eyes They had shut themselves in, and the harder He pushed the tighter the door was pressed. They had made their choice; and the more he would persuade, the more firmly they braced themselves against him. They fitted their eyes to the darkness; and, like owls, the clearer the light the more total their blindness. So that although God, according to the prophet, was the unwilling cause of their blindness, yet it was their wicked will that gave to the cause its... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 12:41

41. Saw his glory Saw whose glory? Plainly, according to the passage in the prophet Isaiah 6:1-10, Jehovah’s glory; the term Lord in capitals standing in our Old Testament translation. And this Jehovah is the proper incommunicable name of the God of Israel. And here the Evangelist tells us that this glory of Jehovah was the glory of Jesus of Jehovah-Jesus. He assumes this as being of course the belief of his contemporaneous readers. And this accords with the fact that the earliest... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 12:42

42. Many believed… did not confess Besides this class of persistent unbelievers, there was a many who were secretly convinced, like Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, but who, fearful of loss of position, concealed their convictions. Thus it often is that men intrenched in power, and predominating in society political, literary, ecclesiastical, are conservative of old errors and hoary iniquity; leaving the cause of reform, and the maintenance of truth, to the weaker, humbler, more... read more

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