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 # Joh 12:19
    \\The world is gone after him.\\ The Pharisees observed the
 vast crowds that attended him and were filled with alarm. The
 city was filled with commotion.
 # Mt 21:10-11
 (PNT 378)
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 # Joh 12:20
    \\And there were certain Greeks\\, etc. Among those who came
 to worship were Greeks, members of the Gentile division of the
 race which embraced all that were not Jews. These were not Jews
 who spoke the Grecian language and lived in Greek countries;
 those are called in the original Greek \\Hellenistoi\\. We find
 the latter in the Jerusalem church in large numbers. See
 # Ac 6:1
 These who sought to visit Jesus were \\Hellenes\\, a term only
 used of the Greek race. It is probable that they belonged to the
 large class of "devout Greeks," met elsewhere by Paul, who were
 sick of heathenism and were attracted by the grand Hebrew
 revelation of the unity of God. On this great national occasion
 they had accompanied Jews settled abroad as they returned to
 worship in the city of David.
 (PNT 378)
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 # Joh 12:21
    \\The same came therefore to Philip.\\ The name Philip is
 Grecian, as well as Andrew, and those of the seven deacons of
 # Ac 6:5
 It is not unlikely that Philip was a Jew born among the Greeks,
 who spoke the Greek language.
    \\We would see Jesus.\\ They wish to find out more about the
 great teacher from Galilee.
 (PNT 378)
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 # Joh 12:22
    \\Philip cometh and telleth Andrew.\\ Andrew was also of
 Bethsaida, and he and Philip seem to have been inseparable
 friends.
 (PNT 378)
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 # Joh 12:23
    \\The hour is come, that the Son of man should be
 \\glorified.\\ The answer of Christ may have been to Philip and
 Andrew, and the Greeks may have heard and understood it. The
 substance is that the time of his glorification had come and
 that glorification would draw all men, Greek, Gentiles as well
 as Jews, to him.
 (PNT 378-379)
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 # Joh 12:24
    \\Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it
 \\abideth alone.\\ This statement, prefaced by the "Verily,
 verily," that gives solemn emphasis, enforces a great truth. The
 grain of wheat may remain in the granary for a thousand years
 and be preserved, but it is useless there. It neither
 reproduces, nor is food. It is when it falls into the ground and
 undergoes dissolution, that it brings forth fruit. It is
 fruitful by giving itself up. So, too, Christ must give himself
 up. His death was needful in order that he might impart life to
 the nation. There is a lesson here for disciples who would "bear
 much fruit.
 # 15:8
 (PNT 379)
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 # Joh 12:25
    \\He that loveth his life shall lose it.\\ He announces a
 principle that underlies all exaltation. He gave his life and
 found eternal exaltation; the grain gives its life and lives a
 hundred-fold; those who consecrate their lives, give them up for
 others, dedicate them to their holy work, will live eternally.
 (PNT 379)
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 # Joh 12:26
    \\If any man serve me, let him follow me.\\ This is Christ's
 direct answer to the Greeks. His service is to be rendered, not
 by secret interviews, but by obeying him, for so the word
 "follow" is to be understood.
 (PNT 379)
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 # Joh 12:27
    \\Now is my soul troubled.\\ It is the shadow of the cross
 and the tomb. The best comment on this verse is to compare it
 with the account of the agony in the garden. Here he exclaims:
    \\Father, save me from this hour.\\ There, "If it be
 possible, let this cup pass from me" [Mt 26:39]. Here, he adds:
    \\But for this cause came I to this hour.\\ There,
 "Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done."
 # Lu 22:42
 Here the perfect resignation that follows the struggle in his
 soul is in the prayer, "Father, glorify thy name."
 (PNT 379)
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 # Joh 12:28
    \\Then came a voice from heaven, saying, I have both
 \\glorified it.\\ At Gethsemane the angel came to strengthen
 him; here the Father's voice speaks in approval. Three times the
 Father's voice was heard from the sky: first, when Christ was
 buried in Jordan, a type of his own burial;
 # Mt 3:17
 second, when Moses and Elijah talked with him on the holy mount
 about his death;
 # Mt 17:5
 third, when he had his struggle of soul in view of death
 portrayed here, and triumphed.
    \\Will glorify it again.\\ God had glorified his name by the
 wonders wrought by Jesus; he would glorify it by his
 resurrection, his exaltation, the scenes of Pentecost, and the
 triumphs of the church.
 (PNT 379)
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 # Joh 12:29
    \\An angel spoke to him.\\ All heard the sound of the divine
 voice, but it was not clear to all what it was.
 (PNT 379)
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 # Joh 12:30
    \\This voice came not because of me.\\ He had already won the
 victory before the voice came. It was rather to confirm the
 faith of his disciples, who still stumbled over the prospect of
 his death.
 (PNT 379)
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 # Joh 12:31
    \\Now is the judgment of this world.\\ Now, "this hour," the
 "hour" referred to in
 # 12:23,27
 This was the hour for which he had come into the world, the hour
 of the cross; that was to be the hour of judgment, the crisis,
 which should determine who should rule the world. The cross
 became a throne. It gave him the crown.
    \\Now shall the prince of this world be cast out.\\ The cross
 cast him out, dethroned him; he is now a usurper and shall
 finally be cast into the lake of fire.
 (PNT 380)
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 # Joh 12:32
    \\If I shall be lifted up from the earth.\\ Lifted up, first,
 to the cross; second, from the grave; third, to heaven and the
 eternal throne.
 (PNT 380)
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 # Joh 12:34
    \\We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for
 \\ever.\\ The multitude were perplexed. Their idea of the
 Messiah was an eternal king. Now he spoke of death.
 (PNT 380)
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 # Joh 12:35
    \\Yet a little while is the light with you.\\ He refuses to
 answer their questions directly, but imparts to them needed
 truths. The light was then present with them. Let them seek the
 light and walk in it while they had opportunity. The opportunity
 might soon pass away and the darkness come.
 (PNT 380)
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 # Joh 12:36
    \\Believe in the light, that ye may be the children of
 \\light.\\ That they might receive light from the Light of the
 world, they must believe on him.
 (PNT 380)
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 # Joh 12:37
    \\Yet they believed not on him.\\ They had a kind of
 intellectual faith, but were filled with doubts when they could
 not understand. There was no real trust.
 (PNT 380)
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 # Joh 12:38
    \\That the saying of Isaiah the prophet\\, etc.
    See note on "Mt 13:14"
 They were blinded because they closed their eyes, and God's law
 is that those who will not see, shall not see.
 (PNT 380)
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 # Joh 12:42
    \\Among the chief rulers also many believed on him.\\ Members
 of the Sanhedrin. We have the names of two, Joseph of Arimathea
 and Nicodemus. See
 # 19:38,39
    \\They did not confess [him].\\ For fear of excommunication.
 The Pharisees had decided to excommunicate those who did. See
 # 9:22
 The two rulers just named afterwards became bolder.
 (PNT 381)
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 # Joh 12:47-48
    \\I judge him not.\\ He shall sit on the throne of judgment,
 not to condemn the world he came to save. The words he left in
 the world will decide the destiny of every man. All shall be
 "judged by the things written in the books."
 # Re 20:12
 (PNT 381)
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 # Joh 13:1
  SUMMARY OF JOHN 13
  \\The Lord Washes the Disciples' Feet\\

  The Passover Meal
  The Lord Washes the Disciples' Feet
  The Traitor Pointed Out
  The Departure of Judas
  The Discourse to the Disciples
  Peter Warned

    \\Now before the feast of the passover.\\ Immediately before,
 just as Christ was about to sit down with his disciples to the
 paschal feast.
    \\Jesus knew that his hour was come.\\ The scenes of this
 hour were in immediate view of the cross. On the next day the
 Lord was crucified.
 (PNT 381)
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 # Joh 13:2
    \\Supper being ended.\\ "During the Supper" (ASV). It is
 likely that Christ arose near the beginning of the feast, washed
 the feet, and then sat down again to the feast. See
 # 13:12
    \\The devil having now put into the heart of Judas
 \\Iscariot.\\ The devil planted the seed, but the soil of his
 heart was ready. The devil has no power except where there is
 preparation for him. The covetous disposition of Judas had
 prepared the way.
 (PNT 381-382)
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 # Joh 13:3
    \\Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his
 \\hands.\\ It was with a full consciousness of his divinity, of
 his divine power and majesty, of the glory that he had and would
 enjoy with God, that he stooped to the menial office that he was
 about to fill.
 (PNT 382)
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 # Joh 13:4
    \\He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments.\\
 Shortly after they had sat down to the table, he arose, laid
 aside his outer robe, girded a towel upon him, and began the
 lowly office of washing the feet of twelve men, without a word
 of explanation. Something more than ordinary must have caused so
 remarkable an act. The fact that the cause has been lost sight
 of, has caused many to misunderstand the significance, and to
 think the Saviour was instituting a church ceremonial, rather
 than giving a deep, practical, spiritual lesson for all ages. I
 will endeavour to explain the circumstances:
 (1) The disciples still expected the immediate manifestation of
     the kingdom. When they sat down to this Supper they felt it
     was a kind of state occasion, and a strife arose among them
     for precedence. Each wanted the "chief seat at the feast."
     An account of this unseemly controversy over the old
     question, "Who should be greatest?" is found in
     # Lu 22:24-30
 (2) Their sandals had been laid off according to custom. They
     sat down to the table with dry and dusty feet, but no one
     brought water to wash their feet, an eastern duty of
     hospitality made necessary by their hot, dusty climate.  No
     apostle volunteered to attend to the office, the duty of a
     servant.
 (3) Then, while they were filled with their ambitious, envious
     feelings, and had engaged in strife right at the Lord's
     table, after waiting long enough to have it shown that no
     one would condescend to the menial, but needful duty, the
     Lord, full of conscious divinity, arose, girded on the
     towel, and began the office. A rebuke to their ambitious
     strife, far more powerful than words could have spoken: such
     a rebuke that never again do we see a hint of the old
     question, "Who should be greatest?" It was Christ's answer
     to their unseemly conduct, and a lesson to those Christians
     "who love the pre-eminence" for all time.
     # 3Jo 1:9
     It said, "Let him that would be greatest become the servant
     of all."
     # Mr 10:44
 (PNT 382)
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 # Joh 13:6
    \\Lord, dost thou wash my feet?\\ The language of Peter is
 that of confusion, of astonishment and of remonstrance. The
 emphasis is on the word "thou."
 (PNT 382)
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 # Joh 13:8
    \\If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.\\ Washing,
 with the Jews, was a symbolical act, signifying purification
 from uncleanliness. That Christ referred to more than a washing
 with water was understood by Peter as is evident from his reply.
 Christ could only wash with blood the obedient.
 (PNT 382)
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 # Joh 13:10
    \\He that is washed needeth not except to wash [his] feet.\\
 We must seek the spiritual meaning. He who is once cleansed by
 the blood of Christ only needs, after this, to come to Christ
 for partial cleansing; for the forgiveness of the special sins
 that make him unclean.
 (PNT 382)
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 # Joh 13:12
    \\Know ye what I have done to you?\\ They knew the act, but
 did they comprehend its meaning?
 (PNT 383)
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 # Joh 13:13-14
    \\Ye call me Master and Lord.\\ Ye ought to follow the
 example of humility, self-sacrifice, and service to others, that
 your Lord sets you. Instead of seeking the pre-eminence,
 disputing concerning the seats of honour, and shrinking from
 humble service to each other, ye should follow my example.
 (PNT 383)