John 12:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. ”

• John 12:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The people - A part of the people. It thundered - The unexpected sound of the voice would confound and amaze them; and though there is no reason to doubt that the words were spoken distinctly...

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• John 12:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Request of the Greeks. This incident is chosen to illustrate the Lord's consciousness that only through death could the final success of His work be brought about. If it was invented to gain Hi...

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• John 12:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  thundered , &c. They heard. sound, but could not distinguish what it was. Compare Acts 9:4 ; Acts 22:9 .

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• John 12:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  29. That it thundered. It was truly monstrous, that the assembled multitude were unmoved by so evident a miracle. Some are so deaf, that they hear as a confused sound what God had distinctly...

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• John 12:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it , said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. The people - said that it thundered: others - an angel spake to him - Bishop Pearce sa...

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• John 12:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The people therefore—said that it thundered:— The sound of this voice was evidently supernatural, being strong and loud as thunder; but at the same time so articulate that all who heard Jesus addre...

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• John 12:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. The people [`the multitude' ochlos ( G3793 )] therefore that stood by, and...

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• John 12:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Triumphal Entry. Close of the Public Ministry 1-11. Supper at Bethany (see on Matthew 26:6 and Mark 14:3 , which record the same incident). The event in Luke 7:36 . is different. The suppe...

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• John 12:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The people.... said that it thundered. — Better, the multitude. Nothing could be stronger testimony to the fact that this narrative was written by one who was present at the events of which he te...

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• John 12:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  IV. THE ATTRACTIVE FORCE OF THE CROSS. "Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify Thy name. There...

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• John 12:29 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Sacrifice a Law of Life John 12:20-29 These were genuine Greeks. The East came to the manger-bed; the West to the Cross. These men came to Philip probably because of his Greek name. The inartic...

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• John 12:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The shadows of the Passion were now falling across the path of the Christ. In what happened at the supper we have a vivid contrast. Mary and Judas arrest our attention. She, discovering the sorrows o...

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• John 12:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour, but for this cause came I unto this hour. (28) Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I...

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• John 12:29 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  VOICES OF GOD ‘The people therefore, that stood by … An angel spake to Him.’ John 12:29 We know the group who thus failed to recognise the voice of God—Jews, Greeks, unbelieving priests, etc...

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• John 12:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The people therefore that stood by and heard [it] ,.... Some more confusedly, who were farthest off; others more distinctly, who were nearer: the first of these, said that it thundered ; as it use...

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• John 12:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it , said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. Ver. 29. That it thundered; others said, An angel, &c. ] But the apostles and...

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• John 12:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Father, glorify thy name Whatever I suffer. For this may be considered as a further expression of his resignation, importing that he was willing to submit to whatever the Father should judge necess...

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• John 12:29 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  A SUPPER FOR HIM AT BETHANY (vs.1-8) Six days before the Passover He returned to the area of Jerusalem, coming by way of Jericho, as Luke shows us ( Luke 19:1-28 ). These days He spent in ministe...

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• John 12:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Divine Attestation to Christ; Christ's Discourse with the People.       27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, sav...

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• John 12:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The people said that it thundered; nor, it may be, were they mistaken, saving only in this, that they thought it was nothing else but thunder (being possibly at such a distance, as they could not d...

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• John 12:29 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘The crowd standing around, heard it and were saying it thundered. Others were saying, “an angel spoke to him”. The actual words of the thunderous cry from Heaven were not understood by the crowd, a...

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• John 12:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 12:20-36 . Certain Greeks coming with a desire to see Him gave our Lord an opportunity of pointing to His atoning work as the hope of salvation for all men, i...

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• John 12:29 - Scofield Reference Notes

  angel ( See Scofield) - ( Hebrews 1:4 ).

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• John 12:29 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 12:29 Misinterpretation of the Voice of God I. When we read the history of our Blessed Lord's first coming into the world, and thoroughly realise who He was that came, it is almost impossibl...

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• John 12:29 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 12:1 . Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. The days Christ was to spend upon the earth were getting...

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• John 12:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 12:1 . Six days before the passover. The Hebrew sabbath was kept from sunset to sunset. The worship of the day being closed, the jews indulged in a good supper after the light food of the day...

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• John 12:29 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And there came certain Greeks;…the same came therefore to Philip … saying, Sir, we would see Jesus The incident and its significance These Greeks belonged to those numerous Gentiles who, like t...

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• John 12:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The twelfth chapter neither belongs intrinsically to that which precedes nor to that which follows. It is a paragraph of high significance, as bearing on the construction of the Gospe...

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• John 12:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The manner of Christ's glorification:

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• John 12:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 23:8 ; Acts 23:9 ; Exodus 19:16 ; Exodus 20:18 ; Ezekiel 10:5 ; Job 37:2-5 ; Job 40:9 ; Revelation 11:19 ; Revelation 14:2 ; Revelation 18:1 ; Revelation 18:2 ; Revelation 6:1 ; Rev...

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• John 12:29 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Hour Is Come John 12:20-32 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We read in our opening verses that the Greeks who had come up to the feast desired to see Jesus. They told Philip, Philip told Andrew, and the...

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• John 12:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The multitude who stood and heard — A sound, but not the distinct words — In the most glorious revelations there may remain something obscure, to exercise our faith. Said, It thundered — Thunder di...

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