John 5:30

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - John 5:19-47

EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTESJohn 5:19. The Son can do nothing of Himself.—This statement refers back to and justifies that of John 5:17. He is still speaking of the eternal relation in which He stands to the Father, but also of that relationship as manifested in His activity as the Son Incarnate. Even when in the form of a servant He sees and knows the Father’s working as men cannot see and know it, and His actions are the works of the Father.John 5:20. Loveth.—φιλεῖ expresses a feeling of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - John 5:1-47

Shall we turn in our Bibles to the fifth chapter of the gospel of John.John has just recorded in the fourth chapter the ministry of Jesus in the Galilee when He was at the city of Cana and the nobleman came to Him concerning his son, who was sick. And Jesus spoke the word and some twenty miles distance the Spirit of God did a work and healed the nobleman's son.So after this, that would be after His ministry there in Cana, and the healing of the nobleman's son,There was a feast of the Jews; and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - John 5:1-47

John 5:2 . Now there is at Jerusalem a pool, called Bethesda, which signifies a house of mercy, beneficence, or alms. The pool was situate at too great a distance from the temple to be a place for washing the sacrifices, but people washed here who had any ceremonial impurity. The verb being in the present tense, proves that both Jerusalem and the pool existed when the evangelist wrote, as stated in the introduction. This gospel therefore was written before the destruction of the city. John... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - John 5:30

John 5:30I can of My own self do nothing; as I hear I judgeChrist’s present judgmentThis verse is a conclusion of this part of Christ’s apology for His curing of the man, and commanding him to carry his bed on the Sabbath day, and for His asserting His unity and equality with the Fathel; wherein, from the former purpose, be sums up these conclusions: 1.That He is inseparable from the Father in operation (John 5:19), having no private power of His own (as they conceived of Him as a mere man);... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - John 5:30

30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. Ver. 30. I can of mine own self do nothing ] But by the power communicated unto me, in that eternal generation. As I hear ] SoJohn 5:19; John 5:19 ; "as I see," which Beza understandeth to be spoken in respect of his human nature, as it is hypostatically united to the Divine. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - John 5:30

can: John 5:19, John 8:28, John 8:42, John 14:10 I judge: John 8:15, John 8:16, Genesis 18:25, Psalms 96:13, Isaiah 11:3, Isaiah 11:4, Romans 2:2, Romans 2:5 because: John 4:34, John 6:38, John 8:50, John 17:4, John 18:11, Psalms 40:7, Psalms 40:8, Matthew 26:39, Romans 15:3, Hosea 10:7-2 Samuel : Reciprocal: Numbers 16:28 - of mine 1 Kings 3:9 - to judge Isaiah 28:6 - for a spirit Isaiah 42:3 - he shall Daniel 11:36 - do Mark 14:36 - nevertheless Luke 22:42 - not John 7:16 - but John 8:29... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - John 5:30

I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.I can do nothing of myself — It is impossible I should do any thing separately from my Father.As I hear — Of the Father, and see, so I judge and do; A because I am essentially united to him. See John 5:19. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 5:17-47

First great discourse, furnished by John, of Jesus to the hostile Jews, John 5:17-47. The best biblical scholars consider this defence, or self-explanation, to have been delivered by Jesus before the Sanhedrim. It bears, hence, some slight resemblance to the Apologia, or defence of Socrates before the Helioea, or popular court, of Athens. The two discourses resemble at least in this, that both refuse to extenuate, but boldly magnify and glory in the matter charged. Hence Luther calls this “a... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 5:30

30. Of mine own self Either as Son of God or Son of man he received the sustentation of the Father, and hence his action was sustained by omnipotent authority. Judgment is just Even though human, the work of a man, that judgment has no human fallibility or wrong. Seek not mine own will At his temptation Satan would have seduced him to seek his own will. But, in the freedom of his own will, he chose to lose his own will in the will of his Father; and thenceforth forever does his finite... read more

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