“ And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. ”
Be lifted up - See John 3:14 ; John 8:28 . Will draw - John 6:44 . The same word is used in both places. All men - I will incline all kinds of men; or will make the way open by the cro...
And I, if I be (e) lifted up from the earth, will draw (f) all [men] unto me. (e) Christ used a word which has a double meaning, for it signifies either to lift up or to get out of the way: for he i...
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...
lifted up. Greek hupsoe. Occurs twenty times. Always in John refers to the cross; see John 12:34 ; John 3:14 ; John 3:14 , and John 8:28 . In fourteen other passages ( Matthew 11:23 ; Matthe...
32. If I be lifted up. Next follows the method by which the judgment shall be conducted; namely, Christ, being lifted up on the cross, shall gather all men to himself, in order that he...
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...
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. I-- will draw all men unto me - After I shall have died and risen again, by the preaching of my word and the influence of my Spir...
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...
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. And I [ kagoo ( G2504 )], if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. The "I" here is emphatic: I, in...
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...
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth. — The pronoun is strongly emphatic. “And I ,” in opposition to the prince of this world; the conqueror in opposition to the vanquished foe. The conditional...
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 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...
THE ATTRACTIVE POWER OF CHRIST ‘I, If I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Myself.’ John 12:32 (R.V.) Nothing had ever happened to suggest to this Galilæan carpenter the str...
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth ,.... The death of Christ is here signified by his being "lifted up from the earth", in allusion to the lifting up of the brazen serpent on the pole; and show...
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. Ver. 32. And if I be lifted up, &c. ] Pope Urban VI said that these words, "Give unto Caesar the things which are Caesar'...
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...
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...
Ver. 32,33. However this term of lifting up Christ is taken in some other scriptures, it is by the evangelist himself in this text expounded concerning his death, so as there is no room for any other...
‘ “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...
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 12:32 I. In these words our Lord foretells the gathering out and knitting "together of His mystical body, which is the Church. From the time of His ascension into heaven, and the shedding abr...
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:
1 John 2:2 ; 1 Peter 2:24 ; 1 Peter 3:18 ; 1 Timothy 2:6 ; 2 Samuel 18:9 ; Deuteronomy 21:22 ; Deuteronomy 21:23 ; Galatians 3:13 ; Hebrews 2:9 ; Hosea 11:4 ; Isaiah 49:6 ; John 1:7 ; Jo...
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...
Lifted up from the earth — This is a Hebraism which signifies dying. Death in general is all that is usually imported. But our Lord made use of this phrase, rather than others that were equivalent,...