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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
What [manner] of saying is this that he said,.... It is not easy to be understood; and if that is not meant, which is suggested, what should he mean by saying, ye shall seek me, and shall not find me, and where I am, thither ye cannot come? repeating the words of Christ just now expressed by him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come? In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried,— I think I see him standing up in the midst of the great throng. That congregation would soon be scattered, never to come together again; so he stood up in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In the last day, that great day of the feast,.... That is, of tabernacles, as appears from John 7:2, which was usually called חג, "the feast", in distinction from the passover and Pentecost (q); and the eighth day of it was called הרגל האחרון, "the last day of the feast" (r), as here: and it was a "great day", being, as is said in Leviticus 23:36,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly- Or, “out of the very midst of him”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, — Shouted, spoke with all his might; and he stood, although he usually sat to deliver his message. But now, as if his whole being was roused to it utmost energy, on account of the last day of the gathering having come, when perhaps the people would go home, and he would be unable...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He that believeth on me,.... Which explains what is meant by coming to Christ, and drinking; for these acts are no other than for a man to go out of himself to Christ, and live by faith on him, and his grace. To which what follows is a great encouragement; as the Scripture hath said: some refer these words to the preceding clause concerning...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Shall flow rivers of living water. What a glorious gospel sermon that was! It comes to us down through the ages, and is as true now as when Jesus spake it. Ho, thirsty ones, come ye to him, and drink; and he will slake your thirst, and create in you a well of living water which shall bubble up for ever and ever.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. He will not only drink enough to satisfy his own thirst, but he will himself become a fountain, streams of grace shall be communicated to his fellow-men through him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But this spake he of the Spirit,.... These are the words of the evangelist, explaining the figurative expressions of Christ; showing, that by rivers of living water, he meant the Spirit in his gifts and graces; and which is the plain sense of the passages referred to by him, particularly Isaiah 44:3, and which, as before observed, the Jews...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. The Prophet about whom Moses spoke.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) He was not given then; but later, on the day of Pentecost, he was given, and he has never been withdrawn.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Many of the people therefore,.... Of the common people, and it may be chiefly those that came out of the country: when they heard this saying; or discourse of Christ, on the last and great day of the feast, relating to the large measure of grace, and the effusion of the Spirit on him, that believed: said, of a truth this is the prophet; spoken of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? So there was a division among the people because...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Others said, this is the Christ,.... The true Messiah, which they concluded, not only from the miracles, John 7:31, but from his speaking of rivers of living water flowing from him that believes in him; for the same prophecy that speaks of miracles to be performed in the times of the Messiah, speaks also of waters breaking out in the wilderness,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Others said, This is the Christ. The Messiah.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? This was blessed testimony even out of the mouth of Christ’s enemies. They objected against Christ what was indeed the fact, for he did come of the seed of David, and from the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hath not the Scripture said,.... These objectors were those who were accounted the more wise and knowing; who were conversant with the Scriptures, and pretended at least to a large knowledge of them: that Christ cometh out of the seed of David; that he should be a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots; that he should be one...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So there was a division among the people concerning him. Some, though they did not go so far as to believe him to be the Messiah, yet took him to be a prophet, and a very extraordinary one; others made no difficulty to assert him to be the Christ; and others objected to it on account of the country from whence he came, and so fulfilled the words...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So there was a division among the people because of him. And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him. He was immortal till his work was done. The hour for his death had not yet struck, and he must live on till the appointed time.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And some of them would have taken him,.... Some of the latter sort, who did not believe he was the Messiah; who were the most averse to him, and hot and furious against him; these were for seizing him at once in a violent manner, and for carrying him before the sanhedrim, as an impostor and blasphemer to be examined and tried, and judged by them,...