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03050
 # Joh 4:38
    \\I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labour.\\
 The verb "sent" is past, and refers to some event before the
 present incident. The disciples had baptized multitudes, "more
 than John";
 # Joh 4:1
 so many that John's disciples reported "all men come unto him."
 # Joh 3:26
 They had baptized these, reaping the fruit of John's labour.
 # Joh 4:2
 (PNT 341)
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 # Joh 4:40
    \\So when the Samaritans had come.\\ They insisted that he
 should tarry with them. A strange invitation for a Samaritan
 village to give to a Jew. It was also a strange thing for a
 Jewish teacher to accept the invitation.
 (PNT 341)
03053
 # Joh 4:41
    \\Many more believed because of his own word.\\ They saw and
 heard for themselves.
 (PNT 341)
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 # Joh 4:42
    \\Know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the
 \\world.\\ To the woman Jesus had said that he was the Christ.
 Now, by his teachings, many months before Peter's confession,
 the Samaritans pronounced him the Christ, the Saviour, not of
 Jews only, or Jews and Samaritans, but of the world.
 (PNT 341)
03058
 # Joh 4:46
    \\And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick.\\ The
 Greek word translated "nobleman" is \\Basileukos\\, from
 \\Basileus\\, a king, and implies one connected in some way with
 royalty. It may have been Chuza, Herod's steward.
 # Lu 8:3
 (PNT 341)
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 # Joh 4:47
    \\Besought him that he would . . . heal his son.\\ Note that:
 (1) The nobleman has already "faith as a grain of mustard seed"
     in Jesus;
     # Mt 17:20 Lu 17:6
 (2) that faith moves him to seek the aid of Jesus;
 (3) to make sure of his help he comes in person, instead of
     sending servants;
 (4) while he thought he could heal his son, he did not
     comprehend that it could be done unless Jesus came to where
     he was;
 (5) he thought it would be too late if the son died before his
     coming. His faith way very imperfect.
 (PNT 342)
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 # Joh 4:48
    \\Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.\\ The
 nobleman, in his sore distress, had some faith, caused only by
 the fame of the "signs and wonders" wrought. His faith was still
 imperfect, far below the holy trust of the Samaritans. He is the
 type of a class whose belief depended on outward signs.
 (PNT 342)
03062
 # Joh 4:50
    \\Go; thy son liveth.\\ These words were spoken like the Son
 of God. There was no hesitation; no doubt. The manner of the
 Lord at once carried conviction to the heart of the sorrowing
 father.
    The miracle is a notable instance of our Saviour not quenching
 the smoking flax, just as his reproof of the Samaritan woman was
 of his not breaking the bruised reed. The little spark of faith
 in the breast of this nobleman is lit up into a clear and
 enduring flame for the light and comfort of himself and his
 house.--Alford.
 (PNT 342)
03067
 # Joh 5:1
  SUMMARY OF JOHN 5
  \\Jesus in Jerusalem\\

  At Bethesda
  The Man with the Infirmity Healed
  The Jews Complain That the Sabbath Was Broken
  The Jews Seek to Slay Jesus
  He Rebukes Them
  Jesus Predicts His Own Death and Resurrection
  Also the Resurrection of All
  The Testimony of John; of Moses
  The Testimony of Moses

    \\There was a feast of the Jews.\\ Probably the second
 passover, attended by the Lord after his ministry began. Such is
 the view of Irenaeus, Eusebius, Lightfoot, Neander, Gresswell,
 Andrews, and Dr. Wm. Milligan.
 (PNT 342)
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 # Joh 5:2
    \\There is at Jerusalem . . . a pool.\\ Its supposed site is
 still shown, but is uncertain.
    \\Five porches.\\ Shelters for the sick.
 (PNT 343)
03069
 # Joh 5:3-4
    \\In these lay a great multitude.\\ All that follows the word
 "withered" in the third verse and all the fourth are wanting in
 the best MSS, and are evidently an interpolation.
 (PNT 343)
03071
 # Joh 5:5
    \\And a certain man was there.\\ With many others who thought
 the water had a healing power. His infirmity was probably
 paralysis.
 (PNT 343)
03072
 # Joh 5:6
    \\Wilt thou be healed?\\ Jesus observed him and asked the
 question to arouse his attention.
 (PNT 343)
03073
 # Joh 5:7
    \\I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into
 \\the pool.\\ His answer reveals the ideas that prevailed. The
 water was agitated at intervals, probably by an intermittent
 spring, and they supposed that the first one to enter after
 would receive the benefit. Only one could be healed at a time.
 No doubt many were, even without a miracle. In nervous diseases,
 faith is the great healing power.
 (PNT 343)
03074
 # Joh 5:8
    \\Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.\\ Then came the command to
 rise and walk. He spoke with an authority that compelled
 obedience.
 (PNT 343)
03075
 # Joh 5:9
    \\The man was healed.\\ Observe the process:
 (1) Christ addresses the man;
 (2) he commands;
 (3) the man obeys. It is the obedience of faith.
 (4) In the act of obedience he is healed.
 Christ is the healer, but he is healed by the obedience of
 faith.
 (PNT 343)
03076
 # Joh 5:10
    \\The Jews therefore said to him.\\ "Therefore" points to the
 fact that he was carrying his bed on the Sabbath day. The term
 "the Jews" does not refer to the people, but to the authorities.
 John always uses it to signify, not the multitude, but the
 rulers. The man was officially stopped and questioned. The
 bearing of burdens on the Sabbath was forbidden, not only by
 Jewish tradition, but by the law. See
 # Ex 31:13 Jer 17:21 Ne 13:15-19
 (PNT 343)
03077
 # Joh 5:11
    \\He that healed me, the same said to me.\\ The defense of
 the man is that he was ordered to do it. He knew not who had
 healed him.
 (PNT 343)
03080
 # Joh 5:14
    \\Sin no more, lest a worse thing come to thee.\\ His own
 sins, thirty-eight years before, had brought on this infirmity.
 What was their nature we are not informed, but we know that
 often our fleshly ills can thus be accounted for.
 (PNT 344)
03081
 # Joh 5:15
    \\The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus.\\
 The second time he saw him he learned that it was Jesus.
 (PNT 344)
03082
 # Joh 5:16
    \\The Jews persecuted Jesus.\\ The word is literally rendered
 "pursued Jesus." At once they hunted him and attacked him. They
 did not at first "seek to slay him." This is omitted in the ASV
 and does not appear in the old MSS. But the officials now come
 to Jesus to learn why he has done this act.
 (PNT 344)
03083
 # Joh 5:17
    \\My Father worketh until now, and I work.\\ The answer of
 Jesus to his accusers goes to the very root of the matter. The
 basis on which the Sabbath rested was that God had ceased his
 creative labours on the seventh day. Jesus shows that God's rest
 was not idleness. The Father had continued his works of love and
 mercy. He worked in these works right on till Jesus came; "now,"
 says the Son, "I work as my Father works. There is no suspension
 on the Sabbath of works of benevolence and mercy." The Father's
 example is the pattern given to direct man.
 (PNT 344)
03084
 # Joh 5:18
    \\Because he not only had broken the Sabbath.\\ The Pharisees
 were horrified, not only at what they deemed the breaking of the
 Sabbath, but at the high ground on which the Lord placed his
 defense.
    \\But said also that God was his Father.\\ This high claim
 seemed to them blasphemous.
 (PNT 344)
03085
 # Joh 5:19-21
    \\Then answered Jesus.\\ To their charge of blasphemy. He
 shows that there is the closest co-operation between the Father
 and Son. What the Father does the Son will do, even to the
 extent of giving life to the dead.
 (PNT 344)
03089
 # Joh 5:23
    \\That all [men] should honour the Son.\\ Three "for's" occur
 in the 20th, 21st, and 22nd verses, all stating exaltation given
 to the Son.
 # 5:20-22
 (PNT 345)
03090
 # Joh 5:24
    \\Hath everlasting life.\\ The conditions of eternal life
 are:
 (1) Knowledge of the Son;
 (2) belief upon him; trust in him.
 These are necessary before he can be accepted.
 (PNT 345)
03091
 # Joh 5:25
    \\The dead shall hear the voice.\\ Those spiritually dead, as
 well as those in their graves. They shall hear, and the Son will
 bestow upon them eternal life. For the Son hath, by the will of
 the Father, life in himself and can bestow it.
 (PNT 345)
03093
 # Joh 5:27
    \\Because he is the Son of man.\\ He is also judge, a judge
 who shares the nature of the judged.
 (PNT 345)
03094
 # Joh 5:28
    \\Marvel not at this.\\ That he should execute judgment.
 Those in the graces shall hear his voice and come forth to
 judgment; the good, to the resurrection of life; the evil, to
 the resurrection of damnation; the one to life eternal, the
 other class to condemnation.
 (PNT 345)
03096
 # Joh 5:30
    \\I can of my own self do nothing.\\ Apart from the Father.
 (PNT 345)
03098
 # Joh 5:32
    \\There is another that testifieth concerning of me.\\ John
 is meant.
 (PNT 345)
03099
 # Joh 5:33
    \\Ye sent to John.\\ See
 # 1:19-38
 (PNT 345)