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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. Faith in Christ is faith in God, he that trusts the Son hath accepted the witness of the Father.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. Not with bodily eyes, for there were many that saw Christ, who never saw the Father: they saw Christ as a mere man, and were offended at the meanness of his outward appearance; they saw nothing divine in him, nor the glory of the Father through him; but with the eyes of the understanding, whoever saw...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. Wonderful expression. Perhaps, we never fully realize it. Christ is seeable. God is not, but when we see the Christ, we do virtually see all of God that we may desire to see: the Invisible hath made himself visible in Christ — in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I am come a light into the world,.... And even as the light of it, being the sun of righteousness, that was to arise, and now was risen, to enlighten men with the light of the living; see John 3:19; that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness; God's elect themselves, whilst in a state of unregeneracy and unbelief, are in darkness;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. True faith in Christ sheds light on everything concerning which light is desirable. You shall understand things when you have come unto the right standpoint, when you have gotten to believe in Christ. I wonder not that those who doubt concerning him,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if any man hear my words and believe not,.... Men may hear the Gospel of Christ, and not understand it; and they may understand it literally and grammatically, though not spiritually and experimentally, and not believe it; not so much as give credit or an assent to the truth of it, but reject and deny it; for though faith comes by hearing to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for came not to judge the world, but to save the world. Under this present dispensation, it is not the time of judgment. The Lord leaves you that are unbelievers to yourselves. He does not come as yet to judge you; there is a second coming, when he will be both judge and witness, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He that rejecteth me,.... As the Messiah, with abhorrence and contempt, as many among the Jews did, who would not have him to reign over them, but sought to put him to death: and receiveth not my words; the doctrines of the Gospel, but disbelieves them, and denies them to be true, looking upon them as the doctrines of a mere man, and an impostor:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. Look, ye, to that, the gospel which you refuse will judge you at the last day. We know that the Lord Jesus Christ shall judge the world, saith Paul, “according to my gospel,” and he that sins against...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I have not spoken of myself,.... As man, or as separate from his Father; his doctrine was not human, but divine, and therefore a rejection of it cannot escape notice at the future judgment: but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment what I should say, and what I should speak; Christ, as man, had his mission, and commission, and his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. God at the back of Christ. Omnipotence supporting love. The expostulations of Christ, not left to our will to do as we like with them, but solemnly sanctioned by the royalties of God, so that to refute them is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting,.... By "his commandment" is not meant the law; that indeed is often styled the commandment; and it is the commandment of God; and many excellent things are said of it; and among the rest it is called "life", Deuteronomy 30:15, but not everlasting life: it only promised a continuation of natural...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. If the great Head of the Church was thus only a messenger, the deliverer of a message from the Father, should not we, who at our best are such poor ministers of Christ, take heed to it that we also can say, “Even as the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. The eternal authority of God is at the back of the testimony of Christ. Oh! that men would not be so unwise as to reject it Now in our reading at the 41st verse we met with these words: “These things, said Esaias, when he...