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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. And many of the Samaritans...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And many more believed because of his own word; And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world. Would God that many might be brought to know that Christ, the Saviour, tonight! Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. For he had respect to the Law. As long as the Law lasted, Christ observed it. Oh, that we were as careful to obey the rules of the Gospel as our Lord was to observe the ritual of the Law! Moreover, he went to Jerusalem because he had an opportunity of addressing great...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. This pool of Bethesda was rightly called “the house of mercy”; but it might have just as truly named “the house of misery”: for its “five porches” were the abode of many who were in misery, and who needed mercy.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, Invalid persons, diseased, and scarcely able to move. Joh_5:3. Of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. What a sight for the Great Physician to look upon! The whole world must have been to him like one huge hospital, full of “impotent folk, blind, halt withered.” Wherever he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. It was the last remnant of miracle. Such things were common enough in Judaea in her better days; but now the times of the prophets had ceased, and the day of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. That was a great portion of the man’s life. If he was a full-grown man when he was attacked with the infirmity, he had now become old and gray. What a long time to be afflicted, thirty and eight years! Have we not with us at this time some who have been afflicted with the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Jesus saw him lie. The Great Physician fixed his eye on him, for his was an extraordinary case. Probably he was known and talked of as the man who had been paralyzed eight and thirty years. Note that it does not say, “When the man saw Jesus,” but “when Jesus saw him.” He did not know Jesus; possibly he had not even heard of his healing power...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, Shuffling along, as best I may, to the water’s edge, — Joh_5:7. Another steppeth down before me. Then, of course, the curative miracle is wrought, and the curative power of the water is gone until another season, when the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. This is our Sabbath. Oh, that we might have the same miracle wrought here tonight, upon many spiritually impotent folk!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured,. It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed, He answered them, And he did answer them, too. It was a crushing answer.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk. That was his warrant. None but God could have made him whole. God can set aside any of his laws if he pleases; at any rate, whatever he commands, must be right.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then asked they him, What man is that which saith unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk? They asked, “What man” had given this command. Why, if it had been a mere man who had said it, the impotent man could not either have taken up his bed, or have walked!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. He never sought notoriety; but avoided popular demonstrations in his favor. The man who had been healed had exercised faith in Jesus, but he knew very little about him. A certain something in the air and mien of Christ had won his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. Probably, this man’s illness had been caused by sin. Christ bids him henceforth keep clear of sin, lest a worse calamity should come upon him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole. Full of joy, full of delight, he must tell out the name of him who had cured him, as grateful patients like to sound the praises of their physician when he has been the means of healing them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. This was a mere pretense, an idle excuse for their enmity. They not only hated Christ; but they must besmear him with their calumnies, and make him out to be an evil-doer although he was goodness itself.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. The whole work of nature is continued on Sabbath-days as well as other days. Stars shine through the Sabbath-night, and the sun rises and sets on the Lord’s-day as on all the days of the week. God’s work continues. “My Father worketh,” saith Christ, “and I work.” “My work is my...