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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.
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.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now before the feast of the passover, — Or, just as it was about to begin, — Joh_13:1. When Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. That is a very beautiful description of Christ’s death: “His hour was that he should depart...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. Our Lord Jesus Christ had a clear foresight of all he had to endure. Future things are happily hidden from our eyes. We do not even know the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him; Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. Notice the wonderful contrast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And supper being ended, I suppose that was the Paschal supper. Joh_13:2. The devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him; What a horrible purpose for Satan to put into the heart of Judas even in the presence of Jesus! I hope that the devil will not put any such purpose into your hearts or into mine while we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus knowing that the Father given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God, He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. Notice those words, “Jesus knowing,... he took a towel, and girded himself.” If he had not known how great he was, there would not have been such...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
After that he poureth water into a bason, The one that ordinarily stood in the guest-chamber for the washing of the hands and feet of the guests.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? You must lay the stress on the pronouns in order to get the full forge of the original. “Lord, dost THOU wash my feet?” The contrast is between Peter’s Master and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. You see that Jesus does his work well. He omits none of the details of it. He puts himself in the place of a slave, and he performs a slave’s duty very thoroughly. I am afraid that, sometimes, we do our work for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? I do not wonder that he said that; would not you have been equally astonished had you been there? Peter had some faint idea who Christ was, he had confessed him in such a way that Jesus had said to him “Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter. Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. That is, Never, as long as I live, shalt thou do such a thing as that.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do those knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. I have heard this saying of our Lord applied to affliction; and it is very true that what Jesus does we do not at present understand, but we shall know by-and-by. I do not think, however, that this sentence is very applicable that way, for there was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. We have often, in commenting, noticed Peter’s fault; perhaps we have...