John 12:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. ”

• John 12:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Now is the judgment of this world - Greek: “crisis.” This expression, doubtless, has reference to his approaching death, and whatever he means by judgment here relates to something that was to be...

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• John 12:31 - 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 12:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  judgment . Greek. crisis (App-177.); i.e. the crisis reached when the world pronounced judgment against Christ and His claims. prince . ruler. Greek. archon; applied to Satan as prince of this...

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• John 12:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  31. Now is the judgment of this world. The Lord now, as if he had already succeeded in the contest, boasts of having obtained a victory not only over fear, but over death; for he describes,...

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• John 12:31 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1674 THE EFFECTS OF CHRIST’S DEATH John 12:31 ; John 12:32 . 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 eart...

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• John 12:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. Now is the judgment of this world - The judgment spoken of in this place is applied by some to the punishment which...

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• John 12:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Now is the judgment of this world:— The subject of our Lord's address to the Father, and the answer which he received, naturally led him to meditate on the happy effects of his coming into the worl...

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• John 12:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. Now is the judgment of this world - the world that "crucified the Lord of glory" ( 1 Corinthians 2:8 ), cons...

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• John 12:31 - 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 12:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Now is the judgment of this world. — For the word “judgment” comp. Notes on John 3:17-19 ; John 16:11 . There is here, following on the coming of the Greeks, which He reads as a sign, and upon th...

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• John 12:31 - 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 12:31 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• John 12:31 - 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 12:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. (32) And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me, (33) This he said, signifying what death he...

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• John 12:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Now is the judgment of this world ,.... That is, in a very short time will be the judgment either of the Jewish world, when that shall be reproved, convinced, and condemned for their sin of rejectin...

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• John 12:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. Ver. 31. The prince of this world ] Gratian saith, the devil is called the prince of this world, as a king at ch...

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• John 12:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Now is the judgment of this world Which I am going to conquer and condemn, that by my death my followers may both be taught and enabled to triumph over it, and those may be convinced of sin that be...

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• John 12:31 - 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 12:31 - 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 12:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The terms judgment and world are taken so variously in the New Testament, and particularly in this very Gospel, that they have given interpreters a great liberty to vary in their senses of this p...

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• John 12:31 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘ “Now is the judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast out, and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself”. (He said this to show by what death he wo...

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• John 12:31 - 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 12:31 - Scofield Reference Notes

  judgments The Seven Judgments. (1) Of Jesus Christ as bearing the believer's sins. The sins of believers have been judged in the person of Jesus Christ "lifted up" on the cross. The result...

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• John 12:31 - 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 12:31 - 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 12:31 - 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 12:31 - 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 12:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The manner of Christ's glorification:

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• John 12:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 3:8 ; 2 Corinthians 4:4 ; Acts 26:18 ; Colossians 2:15 ; Ephesians 2:1 ; Ephesians 2:2 ; Ephesians 6:12 ; Genesis 3:15 ; Hebrews 2:14 ; Isaiah 49:24 ; John 14:30 ; John 16:11 ; Jo...

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• John 12:31 - 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 12:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Now — This moment. And from this moment Christ thirsted more than ever, till his baptism was accomplished. Is the judgment of this world — That is, now is the judgment given concerning it, whose it...

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