“ For John was not yet cast into prison. ”
For John was not yet cast into prison - See Luke 3:20 . The mention of this shows that John was not imprisoned until some time after our Lord entered on his ministry. The design of John was to c...
The Last Appearance of the Baptist. Convinced that the nation is not ripe for Messianic teaching, Jesus falls back on preparatory work similar to that of John, who was continuing his work at Æ non...
was . had been. not yet . Greek. oupo, compound of ou. prison . the prison. Compare Matthew 4:12 .
For John was not yet cast into prison.
After these things— Some time after the conference with Nicodemus, Jesus and his disciples, leaving Jerusalem, went into the land of Judea, or those parts of Judea which were remote from Jerusalem....
For John was not yet cast into prison. For John was not yet cast into prison. From the first three Evangelists one would naturally conclude that our Lord's public ministry only began after the...
The New Birth. John's Testimony to Jesus 1-15. Conversation with Nicodemus. The ministry at Jerusalem, though disappointing, was not fruitless. Christ's miracles and teaching had made an impressio...
Was not yet cast into prison. — This Judæan ministry, then, preceded the Galilean ministry of the earlier Gospels. (See John 4:3 , and Note on Matthew 4:12 .)
John Shows the Greatness of Humility John 3:22-30 It is expressly stated in John 4:2 that Jesus baptized through His disciples. This controversy arose with a Jew, who was comparing the respec...
Nicodemus would seem to have been one of the finest products of Judaism. He was thoroughly sincere. Moreover, he was determined to investigate for himself, and so came to Jesus by night, not because...
After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. (23) And John also was baptizing in Enon, near to Salem; because there was much w...
For John was not yet cast into prison. As he afterwards was by Herod, for the sake of Herodias, because he reproved Herod for taking her to be his wife, when she was wife to his brother Philip; see...
For John was not yet cast into prison. Ver. 24. Cast into prison ] The primitive bishops were found more frequently in prisons than palaces. Bocardo became a college of Quondams, a as the Maria...
After these things That is, some time after our Lord's conference with Nicodemus; came Jesus and his disciples From Jerusalem, where they had kept the passover together; into the land of Judea...
NICODEMUS, AND NEW BIRTH (vs.1-21) Among the many who believed because of the miracles, there was however one individual who was more seriously affected. Nicodemus comes to the Lord by night, evi...
John's Testimony to Christ. 22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and there he tarried with th...
For John was yet in the exercise of his public ministry, not cast into prison, as he was soon after.
John the Baptiser Decreases ( John 3:22-36 ). At this stage Jesus began His ministry alongside that of John the Baptist in a supporting role. It was not His intention at this stage to supersede hi...
EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 3:23 . Ænon near to Salim (Αἰνών, from עַין, Arab. عين, a spring).— Salim was long supposed to have been situated about eight miles from Beth-Shean, i.e....
This is a very wonderful chapter, because, while it teaches the doctrine of regeneration, and the necessity of a great moral and spiritual change, it yet also reveals the doctrine of salvation by fai...
John 3:1 . Nicodemus, a ruler of the jews. This rabbi is named by John as defending our Saviour in the council, and as attending the crucifixion. A gospel of the passion and the resurrection of Ch...
After these things came Jesus and His disciples unto the land of Judaea (see also on John 3:30 for the whole paragraph) Jesus and John and their disciples I. A HUMBLING EXAMPLE OF THE PETTY...
EXPOSITION This is the first of the eleven discourses recorded by this evangelist, and for the most part addressed to the cultivated, hierarcical party in Jerusalem, who questioned him in an u...
John's Second Testimony of Christ. Christ's ministry and John's baptism:
Luke 3:19 ; Luke 3:20 ; Luke 9:7-9 ; Mark 6:17 ; Matthew 14:3 ; Matthew 4:12