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John Gill
This he said,.... These are the words of the evangelist, interpreting the design of Christ in the above words, thereby signifying what death he should die; the phrase of being lifted up from the earth, not only signified his death, but the kind, or manner of it, that it should be by crucifixion; a person crucified being stretched forth upon a cross, and that erected, was lifted up between earth...
Matthew Henry
It was a melancholy account which we had in the close of the foregoing chapter of the dishonour done to our Lord Jesus, when the scribes and Pharisees proclaimed him a traitor to their church, and put upon him all the marks of ignominy they could: but the story of this chapter balances that, by giving us an account of the honour done to the Redeemer, notwithstanding all that reproach thrown upon...
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 lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto...
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.
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 this Son of man? As if it could not be true that...
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.
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.
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.