He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Ver. 11. He came unto his own] His peculiar picked people; as "touching the election, beloved for the Father's sake," Romans 11:28; (ownness makes love), though the more he loved the less he was beloved. This may be the best man's case,2 Corinthians 12:15. Learn we to deserve well of the most undeserving. God shines upon the unthankful also,Luke 6:35. Christ came to the "stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,"Acts 7:51. His comfort was (and may be ours), "Though Israel be not gathered, yet I shall be glorious," &c., Isaiah 49:5 .
And his own received him not] Nay, they peremptorily and pertinaciously "denied the holy One and the just; and desired a murderer to be given unto them," Acts 3:14. For the which their inexpiable guilt, they are, as it were, cast out of the world by a common consent of nations, being a dejected and despised people. Howbeit, we long and look daily for their conversion, their resurrection, as St Paul calleth it,Romans 11:15. And Augustine argueth out of the words, Abba, Father, that there shall one day be a consent of Jews and Gentiles in the worship of the one true God. There are those who say out ofDaniel 12:11, that this will occur A.D. 1650. Fiat, fiat. Do it, do it.