John 7:41 Others said, This is the Christ, But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? The crowd was asking questions about Jesus. Some believed others were hostile, and others disqualified Jesus as the Messiah because He was from Nazareth, not Bethlehem. He was born in Bethlehem although He grew up in Nazareth. They were going on what they thought they knew and was wrong and because of their lack of knowledge they were going to be destroyed spiritually because of their rejection of the truth.
John 7:42 – Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? They thought He was from Galilee, Jesus was raised in Nazareth a city in Galilee. They knew the Messiah was to come from Bethlehem, they knew who they were listening to had performed miracles, He taught the Scriptures with authority, but according to their knowledge, He was from Galilee, not Bethlehem as the Scriptures had indicated.
John 7:43 – So there was a division among the people because of Him. Some believed He was the Christ others didn’t which caused a division among the people. Although all the people saw and heard Him as well as witness the miracles some chose to reject Him as the Son of God. According to the Bible, after they have seen Jesus and during the Tribulation, there will be people that will not repent of their sins and receive Jesus (Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts – Revelation 9:21).
John 7:44 – And some of them would have taken him, but no man laid hands on him. The Romans ruled Palestine, they gave the Jewish religious leaders authority over minor civil and religious affairs. The religious leaders controlled their own Temple police and gave the officers power to arrest anyone causing a disturbance or breaking any of their ceremonial law, but these police officers couldn’t find one reason to Jesus. Although Jesus was the Son of God and had been given all power, He submitted Himself as a citizen and didn’t break any of the Jewish ceremonial laws other than healing and delivering people on the Sabbath. Secondly, it wasn’t His time to be arrested, when God has set an appointed time nothing will happen until then.
John 7:45 – Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? When the officers went to the chief priests and Pharisees they wanted to know why hadn’t they brought Jesus to them. The chief priests and Pharisees needed someone to do their dirty work for them and they chose the Temple police to do it for them.
John 7:46 – The officers answered. Never man spake like this man. The Jewish leaders saw themselves as an elite group who alone had the truth, and they resisted the truth about Jesus, they were jealous and hated Him. The Temple police heard what Jesus taught, and they knew within themselves no one else had taught like Him and they told it to the priests and Pharisees. God has given us an instinct, and we basically know when something is true or not, it’s our decision to chose truth or a lie.
John 7:47 – Then answered them the Pharisees. Are ye also deceived? They were angry with the Temple police and told them they too were deceived. Like the Temple police, many Christians have had family members and friends to tell them they are being deceived by believing the Bible and attending church. Because they don’t know the truth, therefore, they can’t agree to it because of a lack of knowledge and deny the truth.
John 7:48 – Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees, believed on him? Some of the rulers did embrace Jesus and more believed in him, but didn’t have the courage to confess their belief in Him. The cause of Christ has seldom had rulers and Pharisees on its side. Self-denial and the cross are hard lessons to rulers and Pharisees. Like the rulers and Pharisees, many reject Jesus and His teaching because of self-denial; this is what has caused thousands of religions because people don’t want to deny self, so they will make up a doctrine, throw in a few Biblical Scriptures, and the rest be the doctrine of men.
John 7:49 – But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. The Pharisees accused the people of being ignorant of the Law and therefore, they were under God’s curse. The Pharisees despised the rural people who did not rigidly observe the law; the situation was that it was the Pharisees, not the crowds, who were under God’s wrath because they had rejected His Son.
John 7:50 – Nicodemus saith unto them. (he that came to Jesus by night. being one of them). Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin who came to Jesus during the night. Nicodemus had become a secret believer, and begin to speak out for Jesus.
John 7:51 – Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? Nicodemus confronted the Pharisees with their failure to keep their own laws. The Pharisees saw themselves losing ground, the police officers came back impressed by Jesus and one of their own, now Nicodemus was defending Him.
John 7:52 – They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. With their hypocritical motives being exposed and their prestige slowly eroding, they began to move to protect themselves by asking the question was Nicodemus from Galilee, if so, he would know there had not been a prophet from Galilee. They were in error because Jonah, Hosea, Nahum, Amos were prophets who arose in Galilee, and perhaps Elijah and Elisha.
John 7:53 – And every man went unto his own house. The Scripture doesn’t indicate what else had been said for them to make the statement about a prophet not rising in Galilee then going into their own house. Or could it had been the crowd who were among the rulers and Pharisees went into their house after hearing the statement the Pharisees made about a prophet?
Posted: September 22, 2017 by Evangelist Carolyn Luke Leave a Comment
Bible Study – John Chapter 8 Verses 1 -11
John 8:1 – Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. He went out of Jerusalem, perhaps because He had no friends there that had either kindness or courage enough to give Him a night’s lodging; while His persecutors had houses of their own to go to. In the daytime when He had work to do in the Temple He willingly exposed Himself, but in the night He withdrew into the country, and sheltered Himself there.
John 8:2 – An early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him, and he sat down, and taught them. Early in the morning means “at dawn”. Because of the feast of Tabernacles had concluded the day before many visitors were still in Jerusalem. Attracted by the appearance of a noted rabbi, a crowd rapidly gathered. Three things are being exampled here (1) He wasn’t offended because none of the towns people gave Him a place to rest or lodge; rather He was concerned about their souls, raising up early to go to win souls. (2) The place, the Temple; not so much because it was a consecrated place but because it was not a place of concourse. (3) He sat down and taught them as one that was concern and passionate about their physical and spiritual well-being.
John 8:3 – And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery, and when they had set her in the midst. Those that were taken in adultery were by the Jewish law to be put to death. The scribes and Pharisees bring her to Jesus and set her in the midst of the assembly as if they would leave her wholly to the judgment of Jesus. It appears to have been a set-up(1) why were the scribes and Pharisees being at someone’s house, shouldn’t they have been in the temple? (2) How were they aware to go to this particular house? (3) Where was the man, she couldn’t have been committing adultery unless she had a partner? The Jewish leaders had already disregarded the Law by arresting the woman without the man (And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adultery and the adulteress shall surely be put to death – Leviticus 20:10).
John 8:4 – They say unto him, Master this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. The religious leaders were trying to trap Jesus into saying something that was contrary to the Law.
John 8:5 – Now Moses in the law commanded, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? The leaders were using the woman as a trap so they could trick Jesus. If Jesus said the woman should be stoned, they would accuse Him of violating Moses’ Law. If He urged them to execute her, they would report Him to the Roman who did not permit the Jews to carry out their own executions.
John 8:6 – This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground as though he heard them not. Whatever answer Jesus would have given them, He was going to either have an encounter with the Jews or the Romans; rather than giving them an answer, He stooped down and begin to write on the ground as though He didn’t hear them. It could have been rather than giving a quick answer, He was listening to what the Father was instructing Him to say. It could have been He wanted to be slow to speak and quick to hear what they were saying and needed wisdom to give them a reply.
John 8:7 – So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. By saying that only a sinless person could throw the first stone, He highlighted the importance of compassion and forgiveness. He turned the conviction of the prisoner upon the prosecutors. His seeming not to take notice of them made them the angrier. At last, He puts them all to shame and silence.
John 8:8 – And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. It is uncertain whether Jesus was ignoring them by writing on the ground or whether He was writing the Ten Commandments or listing the sins of the persecutors.
John 8:9 – And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus said that “Only someone who had not sinned should throw the first stone”, the leaders begin to walk away quietly from the eldest to the youngest. They were convicted in their conscience which is a good thing because they could have disregarded their conscience and stoned her; they had already disregarded the Law by not bringing the man.
John 8:10 – When Jesus had lifted up himself and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? When Jesus lifted Himself up, He didn’t see any of the leaders only the woman, and He asked her where were her accusers. By the leaders being gone, the question was hath no one condemned her, and since they hadn’t condemned her neither was He.
John 8:11 – She sais, No man, Lord, And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. “Sin no more” implies that Jesus forgave her, He did not condemn her, but neither did He condone her sin; He instructed her to go and sin no more. As Christians, we too must be forgivers. We don’t suppose to hate people, but hate the sin; pray for their deliverance, and love them to Jesus.
Last Updated: September 21, 2017 by Evangelist Carolyn Luke Leave a Comment
Temple of God
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God: as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them: and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, said the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you – 2nd Corinthians 6:16-17
As Christians, we should live a holy life that reflects the nature of God. He or she should separate themselves from actions, influences or people that will contaminate them. A Christian should apply biblical principles to their lives daily. Read More
Posted: September 19, 2017 by Evangelist Carolyn Luke Leave a Comment
Bible Study – John Chapter 7 Verses 41-53
John 7:41 Others said, This is the Christ, But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? The crowd was asking questions about Jesus. Some believed others were hostile, and others disqualified Jesus as the Messiah because He was from Nazareth, not Bethlehem. He was born in Bethlehem although He grew up in Nazareth. They were going on what they thought they knew and was wrong and because of their lack of knowledge they were going to be destroyed spiritually because of their rejection of the truth.
John 7:42 – Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? They thought He was from Galilee, Jesus was raised in Nazareth a city in Galilee. They knew the Messiah was to come from Bethlehem, they knew who they were listening to had performed miracles, He taught the Scriptures with authority, but according to their knowledge, He was from Galilee, not Bethlehem as the Scriptures had indicated.
John 7:43 – So there was a division among the people because of Him. Some believed He was the Christ others didn’t which caused a division among the people. Although all the people saw and heard Him as well as witness the miracles some chose to reject Him as the Son of God. According to the Bible, after they have seen Jesus and during the Tribulation, there will be people that will not repent of their sins and receive Jesus (Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts – Revelation 9:21).
John 7:44 – And some of them would have taken him, but no man laid hands on him. The Romans ruled Palestine, they gave the Jewish religious leaders authority over minor civil and religious affairs. The religious leaders controlled their own Temple police and gave the officers power to arrest anyone causing a disturbance or breaking any of their ceremonial law, but these police officers couldn’t find one reason to Jesus. Although Jesus was the Son of God and had been given all power, He submitted Himself as a citizen and didn’t break any of the Jewish ceremonial laws other than healing and delivering people on the Sabbath. Secondly, it wasn’t His time to be arrested, when God has set an appointed time nothing will happen until then.
John 7:45 – Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? When the officers went to the chief priests and Pharisees they wanted to know why hadn’t they brought Jesus to them. The chief priests and Pharisees needed someone to do their dirty work for them and they chose the Temple police to do it for them.
John 7:46 – The officers answered. Never man spake like this man. The Jewish leaders saw themselves as an elite group who alone had the truth, and they resisted the truth about Jesus, they were jealous and hated Him. The Temple police heard what Jesus taught, and they knew within themselves no one else had taught like Him and they told it to the priests and Pharisees. God has given us an instinct, and we basically know when something is true or not, it’s our decision to chose truth or a lie.
John 7:47 – Then answered them the Pharisees. Are ye also deceived? They were angry with the Temple police and told them they too were deceived. Like the Temple police, many Christians have had family members and friends to tell them they are being deceived by believing the Bible and attending church. Because they don’t know the truth, therefore, they can’t agree to it because of a lack of knowledge and deny the truth.
John 7:48 – Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees, believed on him? Some of the rulers did embrace Jesus and more believed in him, but didn’t have the courage to confess their belief in Him. The cause of Christ has seldom had rulers and Pharisees on its side. Self-denial and the cross are hard lessons to rulers and Pharisees. Like the rulers and Pharisees, many reject Jesus and His teaching because of self-denial; this is what has caused thousands of religions because people don’t want to deny self, so they will make up a doctrine, throw in a few Biblical Scriptures, and the rest be the doctrine of men.
John 7:49 – But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. The Pharisees accused the people of being ignorant of the Law and therefore, they were under God’s curse. The Pharisees despised the rural people who did not rigidly observe the law; the situation was that it was the Pharisees, not the crowds, who were under God’s wrath because they had rejected His Son.
John 7:50 – Nicodemus saith unto them. (he that came to Jesus by night. being one of them). Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin who came to Jesus during the night. Nicodemus had become a secret believer, and begin to speak out for Jesus.
John 7:51 – Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? Nicodemus confronted the Pharisees with their failure to keep their own laws. The Pharisees saw themselves losing ground, the police officers came back impressed by Jesus and one of their own, now Nicodemus was defending Him.
John 7:52 – They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. With their hypocritical motives being exposed and their prestige slowly eroding, they began to move to protect themselves by asking the question was Nicodemus from Galilee, if so, he would know there had not been a prophet from Galilee. They were in error because Jonah, Hosea, Nahum, Amos were prophets who arose in Galilee, and perhaps Elijah and Elisha.
John 7:53 – And every man went unto his own house. The Scripture doesn’t indicate what else had been said for them to make the statement about a prophet not rising in Galilee then going into their own house. Or could it had been the crowd who were among the rulers and Pharisees went into their house after hearing the statement the Pharisees made about a prophet?
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