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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 he said, signifying what death he should die. The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth,.... The death of Christ is here signified by his being "lifted up from the earth", in allusion to the lifting up of the brazen serpent on the pole; and shows, that his death would not be natural, but violent, and would be public, and not private; and fitly expresses his mediation between God, and men, being...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die. The Pharisees said, “The world is gone after him;” but Jesus says, “No not while I am riding in state through the streets of Jerusalem; but when I am lifted up, and hung upon the cross, then shall it indeed be true, ‘I, if I be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die. Yet they did not understand it, even then, clear as it now appears to us that he spake concerning his lifting up upon the cross.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. Christ on the cross draws all men up to himself. I have heard this text quoted as if it referred to Christ being extolled in preaching. Well, it is true that, when Christ is lifted up in the ministry, there is an attractive power; but that is not the first meaning of the text. Let...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die. There is no magnet like the death of Christ. He is able still to draw men unto him because of the attractive force of his atoning sacrifice.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This he said,.... These are the words of the evangelist, interpreting the design of Christ in the above words, thereby signifying what death he should die; the phrase of being lifted up from the earth, not only signified his death, but the kind, or manner of it, that it should be by crucifixion; a person crucified being stretched forth upon a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This he said, signifying what death he should die. He alluded to his crucifixion, which is the great attractive center of mankind.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This he said, signifying what death he should die. The people answered him, As they were always doing, capaciously answering; not answering to him with sentiments that responded to his, but replying against him with their caviling.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The people answered him,.... Not the Greeks, but the Jews, and these not such as were friends to Christ, but cavillers at him: we have heard out of the law; not the five books of Moses, but the Prophets, and Hagiographa; even all the books of the Old Testament are called the law; [See comments on John 10:34]; that Christ abideth for ever;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayeth thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth forever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, the Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then Jesus said unto them,.... Not directly answering to their questions, but suggests to them their ignorance and stupidity, amidst so much light, that was about them: yet a little while is the light with you: meaning either himself, the light of the world, John 8:12, who was to be but a very little while longer with them, a few days more, and he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon, you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. When...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
While ye have light, believe in the light,.... Receive the Messiah, and credit the Gospel revelation; this is an explanation of the exhortation in the preceding verse: that ye may be the children of the light; that is, that they might appear to be such who are enlightened persons; and such are truly so, who are made light in the Lord, or who are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? Therefore they could not...