John 12:44 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Jesus cried and said,He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. ”

• John 12:44 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Jesus cried and said - John does not say where or when this was; it is probable, however, that it was a continuation of the discourse recorded in John 12:30-36 . Jesus saw their unbelief, and pr...

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• John 12:44 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (11) Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth (i) not on me, but on him that sent me. (11) The sum of the gospel, and therefore of salvation, which Christ witnessed in the midst of J...

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• John 12:44 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Final Summary of Jesus-' Public Teaching. This summing up of what was most important in the teaching of Jesus throws interesting light on the author's method of recording the speeches. Belief in Je...

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• John 12:44 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  He that believeth, &c. Faith in the Lord does not rest in Him, but passes on to recognize that He is the manifestation of the Father. Compare John 1:14 ; John 1:18 ; John 3:33 . sent. G...

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• John 12:44 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  44. And Jesus cried. The object of Christ, in this statement, is to encourage his followers to a proper and unshaken steadfastness of faith; but it contains also an implied reproof, by which...

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• John 12:44 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. Jesus cried and said - This is our Lord's concluding discourse to this wicked people: probably this and th...

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• John 12:44 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Jesus cried, &c.— To strengthen the faith of those who believed on him, and to inspire them with courage to confess him, (see John 12:42 .) our Lord cried and said in the temple, "Be it kn...

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• John 12:44 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. Jesus, [ Ieesous ( G2424 ) de ( G1161 ), rather, 'But Jesus'] cried - expressive of the...

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• John 12:44 - 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 12:44 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The last few verses ( John 12:37-43 ) have given us the thoughts of St. John as he looked back on the unbelief of Judaism. He had given our Lord’s closing word in John 12:36 , and there stated that...

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• John 12:44 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  V. RESULTS OF CHRIST'S MANIFESTATION. "But though He had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on Him: that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lo...

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• John 12:44 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Commandment of the Father John 12:42-50 The fear of being cast out of the synagogue was a very real one, John 9:22 ; and the yoke laid on Israel by the Pharisees was a very crushing one. O...

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• John 12:44 - 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 12:44 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth forever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? (35) Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a...

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• John 12:44 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Jesus cried and said ,.... Upon this occasion, on account of the prevailing hardness and unbelief of the Jewish nation, and the non-confession of him by those who did believe him to be the Messiah....

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• John 12:44 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. Ver. 44. Jesus cried, &c. ] As being now to cry his last to them, and is therefore so earnest in h...

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• John 12:44 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jesus On some occasion or other, soon after this, in order to strengthen the faith of those timid and diffident disciples (if such they could be called) last mentioned, and to inspire them with cou...

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• John 12:44 - 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 12:44 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Last Discourse with the Jews.       44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent...

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• John 12:44 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The words, at first view, seem to contain a contradiction, and denying the same act as to the same person; as if any man could believe, and yet not believe on Christ; but there is nothing less in the...

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• John 12:44 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in me believes not (only) in me but in him who sent me. And he who closely observes me sees him who sent me'. This then was the essence of Jesus' proc...

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• John 12:44 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 12:37-43 . The Evangelist’s statement of the causes of Jewish unbelief, and of the timidity of many who believed, which prevented them confessing Christ. Joh...

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• John 12:44 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 12:20-24 . And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we...

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• John 12:44 - 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 12:44 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But though He had done so many miracles … yet they believed not on Him Our Lord’s ministry I. ITS DETAILS. 1. The doctrines He taught ( John 12:44-50 ). These words are an abridged statement...

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• John 12:44 - 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 12:44 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Of Faith in Christ and God. John 12:42-50

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• John 12:44 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:21 ; Isaiah 55:1-3 ; John 11:43 ; John 13:20 ; John 7:28 ; Mark 9:37 ; Matthew 10:40 ; Proverbs 1:20 ; Proverbs 8:1

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• John 12:44 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Jesus said with a loud voice — This which follows to the end of the chapter, is with St. John the epilogue of our Lord's public discourses, and a kind of recapitulation of them. Believeth not on me...

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