“ Jesus answered and said,This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. ”
Came not because of me - Not to strengthen or confirm me; not that I had any doubts about my course, or any apprehension that God would not approve me and glorify his name. For your sakes - T...
(7) Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. (7) Christ foretells to the deaf the manner of his death, the overcoming of the devil and the world, and in conclu...
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...
answered , &c. See App-122. because of . on account of. Greek. dia. App-104. John 12:2 . for your sakes . on account of (Greek. dia. App-104.) you.
30. This voice came not for my sake. Had Christ no need of being strengthened, or did the Father care less for him than for us? But we must attend to this principle. As it was on our account...
Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes - Probably meaning those Greeks who had been brought to him by Ph...
This voice came not because of me, &c.— Dr. Heylin renders this better, This voice came not for my sake, but for yours. It is literally, This voice came not for me, but for you—" not to assu...
Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. Jesus answered, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes - х ou ( G3756 ) di' ( G1223 )...
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...
This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. — More exactly, not for My sake did this voice come, but for your sakes. These words are an answer to the thoughts, spoken and unspoken, of...
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...
Belief May Become Impossible John 12:30-41 The question of the Greeks led our Lord's thoughts to His death. He saw, too, the baptism of suffering through which His followers must pass. From all...
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...
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...
Jesus answered and said ,.... To the people that stood by, and were disputing among themselves about what they heard, whether it was thunder, or the voice of an angel: this voice came not because...
Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. Ver. 30. But for your sakes ] That ye might believe; which if ye do not, how shall ye escape that neglect so great...
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...
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...
The Divine Attestation to Christ; Christ's Discourse with the People. 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, sav...
This voice came not to instruct me, I very well knew, before it came, that my Father had glorified his own name, and would do it again; it came not principally nor solely for me, but chiefly to confi...
‘Jesus answered and said, “This voice occurred not for my sake, but for your sake”.' Jesus then explained to them the purpose of the voice from Heaven. It was true that His Father had spoken to Him...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The manner of Christ's glorification:
2 Corinthians 8:9 ; John 11:15 ; John 11:42 ; John 5:34
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...