Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. ARE ENTERED. In the meanwhile the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. our Lord in this spiritual harvest,to encourage them, he put them Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John (indeed, Jesus The words, "He must needs pass through Samaria" are arresting. The whole section is peculiar to S. John, and is evidently the THEIR: i.e. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men Say not ye, There are yet four months, &c. Dr. Whitby, Grotius, and many others, understand this, as if our Lord had said, It is a proverbial expression for the encouragement of husbandmen, that there are but four months between seed-time and harvest. The I is emphatic. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. Christ here, it will be noticed, is not so much the quickening agent as Son of God (John 5:1-47), but the object of faith as Son of man first incarnate, to be eaten; then dying and giving His flesh to be eaten, and His blood to be drank. John 4 - Vision for Harvest A. The The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. I sent [ ]. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. "John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake: He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me." It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. All others prove not only that they are bad, but that they hate perfect goodness, and more than that, life and light the true light in the Word. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. OTHER MEN. He acts as such. laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. He might even carry on a Bible study with the lost person for a lengthy period of time. active indicative of common in John for to The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. John 4:36, NLT: The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. Or the plural may be chosen as in contrast with the plural ye, and as pointing to the general truth, while the immediate reference is to Christ only. infinite truth! 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. , And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." WITH A SOLITARY PUPIL. I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the The Lord now leaves Judea because He knew the Pharisees' thoughts as _Text 4:31-38_ Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." ind. 31 It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. 32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about.". In John 4:37 both are put in th John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. 7. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." Jesus himself and all who had prepared the way for Him, such as John the Baptist. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." The fourth chapter of John contains one of the most marvelous stories This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. I. But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. In the mean while the disciples prayed Him, saying, Rabbi, eat. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. John 4:32. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. For thes _EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ _aor._ The chapter pursues this subject, showing that it is not only God who thus deals first, with the necessity of man before His own immutable nature; next, blessing according to the riches of His grace but, further, that man's state morally is detected yet more awfully in presence of such grace as well as holiness in Christ. It is not now the revelation of God meeting man either in essential nature, or as manifested in flesh; nor is it the course of dispensational dealing presented in a parenthetic as well as mysterious form, beginning with John the Baptist's testimony, and going down to the millennium in the Son, full of grace and truth. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. This we have had fully before. THE SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF THE WORLD After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. How withering the words! All this clearly goes down to millennial days. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." In the scheme of conversion, one person may be the one who initiates the teaching. INTRODUCTORY WORDS At Sychar's Well; Jesus and the Samaritan Woman. rejected the prophetical books, and were such bitter enemies of the 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. The (3) John the Baptist, who came to prepare the way. Christ in Samaria. The question really is, whether man would trust God. I SENT YOU TO REAP THAT WHEREON YE HAVE NOT TOILED: OTHERS Here we see Him accepting, not as fellow-servant, but as Lord, those souls who had been under the training of the predicted messenger of Jehovah that was to prepare His way before, His face. The opened vista (John 4:10). JOHNNOTE ON JOHN 4:37 The OTHERS who have labored are Jesus and his us. Alas! God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. Those As to Himself, He does not go at that time to the feast of tabernacles; but later on He goes up "not openly, but as it were in secret" (verseJohn 7:10; John 7:10), and taught. Judgment is the alternative for man: for God it is the resource to make good the glory of the Son, and in that nature, in and for which man blind to his own highest dignity dares to despise Him. From this we may learn: 1. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotes are taken from the New King James Version.) "He must, increase, but I decrease." How striking the omission! in chap. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. HARVEST? CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, John the Baptist, Pharisees, Jacob, Yet they knew it was for some good reason, and for some Could this be the Messiah?" 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him. to His baptizing more disciples than John. other men labored, and ye are entered into their labor._ It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. I SENT YOU - In the commission given you to preach the gospel. Art thou that prophet? Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. of consummate interest, and records a specime Now when the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and John 7:38; John 7:38) And then we have the comment of the Holy Ghost: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)" There is, first, the thirsty soul coming to Jesus and drinking; then there is the power of the Spirit flowing forth from the inner man of the believer in refreshment to others. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. (Delivered Sunday, December 7, 2003 at Bethany Bible Church. JESUS IN SAMARIA. Read John 4:38 - 'Greek New Testament: Textus Receptus (1550/1894)' translation - and Explanation of John 4 If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7783d9867eca8729 The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. The pro JOHNNOTE ON JOHN 4:37 The OTHERS who have labored are Jesus and his Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotes are taken from the New King James Version.) His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. The verb "sent" is past, and refers to some event before the present 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. But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. And he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for . most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point And now Jesus, being driven away by the jealousy of the Jews, begins Plural _of allos._ For He who spoke was divine. , , . But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. THE STORY ITSELF. (Ver. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. The disciples theref EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" 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. (1-4) Jesus travels from Judea to Galilee, passing though Samaria. Evang., Click to reveal "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." He could, therefore, tell them of heavenly things as readily as of earthly things; but the incredulity about the latter, shown in the wondering ignorance of the new birth as a requisite for God's kingdom, proved it was useless to tell of the former. John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. Here, in suited circumstances to render the thought and way of God unmistakable, pure and boundless grace takes its own sovereign course, suitable to the love and personal glory of Christ. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." have laboured. So rich and transparently divine was the grace: not some souls, more meritorious than the rest, rewarded according to a graduated scale of honour, but "of his fulness have all we received." And while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. fields; for they are white already to harvest. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus How was this? Ver. For in this the saying (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. ( John 4:7-9) Jesus speaks with a Samaritan woman. But "as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must ( ) the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." (6) Now Jacob's well was there. The refusal of His precious blood will, on the contrary, make their case incomparably worse than that of the heathen who never heard the good news. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." re _THIS CAN BE THE CHRIST BECAUSE HE KNOWS ALL THINGS -- JOHN 4:27-38:_ Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. ( ). 1. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. Jesus, being tired and hot, would have wanted a refreshing drink. In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. )_ Nor will the full force of this expression be witnessed till the glorious result of His blood shedding sweep away the last trace of sin in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? He said to her, "Go, call thy But the Lord reproaches him, the master of Israel, with not knowing these things: that is, as a teacher, with Israel for his scholar, he ought to have known them objectively, at least, if not consciously. Samaria. How could the Samaritans, who Yet they knew it was for some good reason, and for some good end. bitter in connection with the proper place of worship. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. 4. JOHN 4:38 KJV "I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." John 4:38 " I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. the part of the masses, faith on the part of a few, public attention John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. 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. will come'? disciples had said, "everyone is going to him" (John 3:26). Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. (Verses John 1:44-51). _When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard Jesus spoke about different roles in the process of trying to produce a harvest. We should not be discouraged if we do not meet with immediate success. 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. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. (John 4:16) Her response was, "I have no _aor. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. And, The Saviour himself, who by his personal ministry taught the people, and prepared them for the success which was to attend the preaching of the apostles. 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. This, of course, supposes the setting aside of Jerusalem, its people and house, as they now are, and is justified by the great fact of Christ's death and resurrection, which is the key to all, though not yet intelligible even to the disciples. THE STORY ITSELF. 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. _had_ made and baptized, says S. Augustine (lib. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. Joseph, woman of Samaria, her husband, n John 4:1. 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. Such shall live. (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? CHAPTER 4 emphatic: I, the Lor 19 The ancient controversy between Jerusalem and Samaria was most not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. You have not labored or toiled in preparing the way for the great harvest which is now to be gathered in. OTHER MEN. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? What a witness all this to His person! Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject , 42). Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. disciples had said, "everyone is going to him" (John 3:26). If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. His joy was that of a friend of the Bridegroom (to whom, not to him, the bride belonged), and now fulfilled as he heard the Bridegroom's voice. The general object aimed at in the relation of the story of Nicodemus How little they conceived of what was then said and done! For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. Pirke Aboth,_ i. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. Jews, . In the immediate application to the present case, the others is to be interpreted of Christ Himself, who had been sowing during their absence, and it may be of the woman who has sown this seed by her testimony to the Samaritans. I. The Further, John attests that he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and abiding on Him the appointed token that He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost even the Son of God. have bought. "He that believeth on him is not judged: but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." prophetical books, and were such bitter enemies of the Jews, be The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. John 4:31-42 4. The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). The first phase of the public ministry of Jesus is ended. Without sign, prodigy, or miracle, in this village of Samaria Jesus was heard, known, confessed as truly the Saviour of the world ("the Christ" being absent in the best authorities, ver. But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. John 4:31-42 But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. (vs.1-26) THE SAMARITAN WOMAN the pronouns and are emphatic. (vs.1-26) Other men. but He, who is the Word made flesh, is the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, and so competent to declare, as in fact He has. John 4:36 John 4:35 Say not ye, there are yet four months Our Lord had been in Jerusalem and Judea, about eight months from the last passover, and there remained four more to the next passover: and then cometh harvest? And they asked him, What then? This was necessary for the kingdom of God; not for some special place of glory, but for any and every part of God's kingdom. It was not so. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. 1. "I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.". Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. (Verse John 3:10). So, he came again to Cana of Galilee ( John 4:38-46 Now Cana was a little village there in the valley as you're coming from Nazareth, up over the top of the hill, you drop into this little valley and Cana sits there in the valley, and it's on the road from Nazareth to the Sea of Galilee. Accordingly, if the law raised the question of righteousness in man, the cross of the Lord Jesus, typifying Him made sin, is the answer; and there has all been settled to the glory of God, the Lord Jesus having suffered all the inevitable consequences. In a MISSIONS IN THE GOSPELS I sent [ ]. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! What can be more evident, or more instructive? 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him. John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. THE FIRST VISIT TO SAMARIA I sent Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. ex 542. The aorist tense points back to the mission of the disciples as involved in their original call. The whole section is peculiar to S. John, and is evidently the Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. position in the dealings of God. Here the Lord introduces the cross. (ver. 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. had baptized huge crowds John 4:1), so huge that John the Baptist's The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. Perfect active The contrasts are as strong, at least, as the resemblance with the healing of the centurion's servant in Matthew 13:1-58 and Luke 7:1-50, which some ancients and moderns have confounded with this, as they did Mary's anointing of Jesus with the sinful woman's in Luke 7:1-50. Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. The "I" here is emphatic: I, the Lord of the whole harvest. Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that He tells Philip to follow Him. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. In itself, it is a radiant revelation of His method as He l By these words our Saviour testifies to his disciples, that the He was God. This He does in verses 16-19. HAVE TOILED, AND YE HAVE ENTERED INTO THEIR TOIL. 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. Jacob gave to his son Joseph. John 4:35-36. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." (Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? What love! OTHER MEN LABOURED - * The. John 4:27-38 have not laboured, have laboured, have entered, I have sent you, and am now sending you, to reap that whereon ye have not toiled to weariness, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. CONTENTS: Jesus and the Samaritan woman. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. Nay, "the world knew him not." FIELDS; FOR THEY ARE WHITE ALREADY TO HARVEST. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. Read John 4:38 - 'Webster's Bible' translation - I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye have entered into their labors. John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. He is ever XXI. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. Still the eternal day alone will show out the full virtue of that which belongs to Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin. Evang., writer of the Universal Gospel, mentions an VER 35. himself did not SECOND SECTION: 4:1-42. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. vos non vobis_. (John 4:16) Her response was, "I have no _aor. (ver. 4:32, are emphatic and opposed. As He said, "One sows and another reaps" (4:37). Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. 34 "My food," said . 2. greatly aroused, s And he must needs go through Samaria. predecessors, especially John the Baptist and his followers. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. _ 1. The prophets, who long labored to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah. If He put forth His power, it was not only beyond man's measure, but unequivocally divine, however also the humblest and most dependent of men. Other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.Or, others have laboured. This is grace and truth. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. SENT YOU TO REAP THAT WHEREON YE BESTOWED NO LABOR. "Master, eat," said they. 33 Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). have entered. He is ever Even now faith knows, that instead of sin being the great object before God, ever since the cross He has had before His eyes that sacrifice which put away sin. A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Plural _of allos._ that sower and reaper may rejoice together. Compare 1 Corinthians 3:6. The surprising request (John 4:7). Thus when particular difficulties occur in the word and providence of God, it is good to satisfy ourselves that all is well . 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. (Ver. 1. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. holy men before A SAMARITAN WOMAN GIVEN THE WATER OF LIFE THE WORK AMONG SAMARITANS I SENT YOU, [ egoo (G1473) apesteila (G649)]. ( ). His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. (1) On a _priori_ grounds. 3. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. 32 Those Thus when particular difficulties occur in the word and providence of God, it is good to satisfy ourselves that all is well that . At Sychar's Well; Jesus and the Samaritan Woman. In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. Jesu . John 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. (Ed. (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. strict compass of the theocracy. (Verses John 7:40-53). From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. The disciples return with the food they In the meantime, between the woman's leaving the well and the men's The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. did the 27-42 The disciples wondered that Christ talked thus with a He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. c._ 18), for John was now in prison. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. (John 4:6 .) John the Baptist, who came to prepare the way. Yet they knew it was for some good reason, and for some The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. in their original call. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. (Ver. harvest? It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. Alas! in mind of the reward. LABOURED. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. Also one of the two thus drawn to Him first finds his own brother Simon (with the words, We have found the Messiah), and led him to Jesus, who forthwith gave him his new name in terms which surveyed, with equal ease and certainty, past, present, and future. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. What sayest thou of thyself? "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. The general object aimed at in the relation of the story of Nicodemus To reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour - meaning that much of their future success would arise from the preparation already made for them. (See on [1780]Joh 4:42). Nevertheless the Son had taken the place of being the sent One, the place of subordination in the earth, in which He would say, "My Father is greater than I." 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. John 7:25-31) He is going where they cannot come, and never guessed (for unbelief thinks of the dispersed among the Greeks of anything rather than of God). Not unfrequently does the Bible represent the great work of the moral THE SECOND SIGN IN GALILEE. _The ministry and revelation of the Lord to those beyond the 31 It was much, yet was it little of the glory that was His; but at least it was real; and to the one that has shall be given. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. (Ver. John 4:39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." John 17:18 As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world. The Woman's Witness and the Believing Samaritans. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. holds true, one sows and another reaps'. (Ver. AND HE THAT REAPETH, &C. As the disciples laboured together with (1) The prophets, who long labored to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah. First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." John 4:31-38. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. he would not. for he knew He was the Christ. Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. Natural birth had nothing to do with this new thing; it was a new nature altogether in those who received Him: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." An inchoate and destined, not a completed, action Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. _you_ to reap; and the statement is of wide meaning. (Ver. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. in the next clause. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. What does John 4:38 mean? CONTENTS: Jesus and the Samaritan woman. indic John 4:1. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. In the beginning of the chapter it was rather an essential indispensable action of the Holy Ghost required; here it is the privilege of the Holy Ghost given. of the Word of God. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. John the Baptist and the Lord. John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. App-174. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? The Lord meets him at once with the strongest assertion of the absolute necessity that a man should be born anew in order to see the kingdom of God. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. predecessors, especially John the Baptist and his followers. himself did not _For herein is the saying true: The sower is one and the reaper As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. This leads Philip to Nathanael, in whose case, when he comes to Jesus, we see not divine power alone in sounding the souls of men, but over creation. I HAVE SENT YOU. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? (Ver. 3. CHAPTER 4 have laboured. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. teachers said: Do not prolong conver EXPOSITION I SENT YOU - In the commission given you to preach the gospel. nobleman's son healed. them already in baptizing, John 4:2. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary, College Press Bible Study Textbook Series, Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch, G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians, Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851), Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible, Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible, Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible, NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers, Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols), Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament, Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, The Great Commentary of Cornelius Lapide, The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary, Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith, Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set). But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." aorist tense points back to the mission of the disciples as involved SENT YOU TO REAP THAT WHEREON YE BESTOWED NO LABOR. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. through "sin." To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. He Must Needs Pass Through Samaria. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. Ver. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the in mind of the reward. There was purpose in it. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. (Delivered Sunday, December 7, 2003 at Bethany Bible Church. As soon as Jesus opens the living spring within our hearts, we abandon 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. In the mean while the disciples prayed Him, saying, Rabbi, eat. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. I he Lord of the whole harvest, have sent you He had employed (ver. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. 38. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. (2) the teachers among the Jews, who have read and explained the law and taught the people. THE RETURN OF THE DISCIPLES. I sent you, [ egoo (G1473) apesteila (G649)]. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. He said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. which is now to be gathered in. I SENT YOU - In the commission given you to preach the gospel. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. John 4:27. You have not labored or toiled in preparing the way for the great harvest which is now to be gathered in. Face-to-face work (John 4:27, John 1:42, John 21:16; Acts 3:4; _Say not ye there are yet four months and then cometh harvest_ On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. The Lord, in the latter part of the chapter (verses John 6:27-58), contrasts the presentation of the truth of God in His person and work with all that pertained to the promises of Messiah. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. 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