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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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.