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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Father, glorify thy name,.... The perfections of his nature, particularly his justice and holiness, meaning in himself; by his sufferings and death; intimating hereby, that his Father's glory was what he had in view, and that the securing of that would give him an infinite pleasure amidst all his sorrows. The Arabic version, and Nonnus, read...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. This was one of the three occasions on which testimony was openly borne to Christ by his Father; first at his baptism, then at his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Father, glorify thy name. That is a grand answer to the Saviour’s question, “What shall I say?” And, when you do not know how to pray, you may always present that petition, “Father, glorify thy name.” You have some dear one at home very ill; you would be glad if the precious life might be spared, yet you are not sure whether you may ask for it?...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, 1 have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. “You needed to be strengthened as to the divine character and authority of my mission; you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Father, glorify thy name. What a prayer! Jesus swallows up his temptation to escape the cup by this all-absorbing petition, “Father, glorify thy name.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: They only heard the sound, and it was like thunder in their ears.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, an angel spake to him. This was the third time that mysterious voice had been heard; — first, at his baptism; the second time, on the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Father, glorify thy name. When we are pleading about that glorious name of Jehovah, we may pray with vehemence and importunity: “Father, whatever I do or suffer, glorify thy name.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. Ah! they did not understand the voice of God, or the cause of the voice speaking to them. If the men of the world in our Saviour’s day did...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The people therefore that stood by and heard [it],.... Some more confusedly, who were farthest off; others more distinctly, who were nearer: the first of these, said that it thundered; as it used to do when "Bath Kol" was heard, which, as the Jews say (a), "is a voice that comes out of heaven proceeding from the midst of another voice,'' as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Others said, An angel spoke to him. They distinguished the sound of some one speaking; but they did not recognize the voice of God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Jesus answered and said,.... To the people that stood by, and were disputing among themselves about what they heard, whether it was thunder, or the voice of an angel: this voice came not because of me; at least not only and chiefly; it was not so much in answer to his prayer, or in order to comfort him under the apprehensions he had of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out. See how the eye of faith reads things differently from the eye of sense. You and I would have said, “Now is Christ coming to his lowest point. Now is his name to be cast out from among...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. “To make you believe that God is with me, and that I am his Son.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. The old Roman empire seemed to stand as fast as the eternal hills, but God had come to judge the whole state of affairs as it was then in the world; and, inasmuch as Christ the pure and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This is the sermon, which has the Greeks for a text. They are already coming, being drawn to Christ: but when he dies,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. Satan may have thought that he had triumphed when Christ was crucified, but that death upon the cross was the death-blow to the devil’s usurpation.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now is the judgment of this world,.... That is, in a very short time will be the judgment either of the Jewish world, when that shall be reproved, convinced, and condemned for their sin of rejecting Christ, and crucifying him, by the Spirit, in the ministration of the Gospel; and they still continuing in their impenitence and unbelief, in process...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now is the judgment of this world: This is a wonderful sentence, — as if, in Christ’s death, the world was judged, and condemned; and so it was; nothing ever so convicted the world of high treason against God as when men said of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s well-beloved Son, “This is the Heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be...