The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. aorist tense points back to the mission of the disciples as involved It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. The impression produced upon the mind of the woman was that which I SENT YOU, [ egoo (G1473) apesteila (G649)]. Other men laboured; the prophets, and John the Baptist: and ye are entered into their labours; to finish the work they had begun, and which was almost done to their hands. 2. But the Lord reproaches him, the master of Israel, with not knowing these things: that is, as a teacher, with Israel for his scholar, he ought to have known them objectively, at least, if not consciously. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. (John 4:16) Her response was, "I have no _aor. I SENT 3. 4. His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. The Prophets, and teachers of the Law, and such as they 1-54 This was the end of the law, this the fruit which the prophets lo CHAPTER 10 THE WORK AMONG SAMARITANS 1. Just as distinct and beyond comparison is His testimony who, coming from heaven and above all, testifies what He saw and heard, however it might be rejected. narrative of an eyewitness: of the Synoptists S. Luke alone, the MARVELLED.The disciples evidently thought that Jesus The chapter pursues this subject, showing that it is not only God who thus deals first, with the necessity of man before His own immutable nature; next, blessing according to the riches of His grace but, further, that man's state morally is detected yet more awfully in presence of such grace as well as holiness in Christ. 2. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. If He judges, it is not without full warning. (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. John 4:38, NLT: I sent you to harvest where you didn't plant; others had already done the work, and now you will get to gather the harvest.' John 4:38, CSB: I sent you to reap what you didn't labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from their labor." What does John 4:38 mean? (Ver. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. Especially did Jesus lay the foundation for the rapid and extensive spread of the gospel. 4:32, are emphatic and opposed. Could this be the Messiah?" 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him. _you_ to reap; and the statement is of wide meaning. Performance & security by Cloudflare. SENT YOU TO REAP THAT WHEREON YE BESTOWED NO LABOR. THE REWARDS OF SERVICE If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. harvest? (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. The question really is, whether man would trust God. 36. I sent [ ]. BEHOLD, I SAY TO YOU, LIFT UP YOUR EYES, AND LOOK ON THE The "I" here is emphatic: I, the Lor. have entered. John 5:19-29), It is evident, then, that the Lord presents life in Himself as the true want of man, who was not merely infirm but dead. OTHER MEN LABOURED - * The. In the mean while the disciples prayed Him, saying, Rabbi, eat. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? . I. Theme: The Lord Jesus encourages us to enter into His joyous work of harvesting souls for His kingdom by teaching what the work of the harvest is like. I SENT The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. teachers said: Do not prolong conver EXPOSITION On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." That the man who is crowned with eminent success has no cause of "boasting" over others, any more than the man who reaps a field of grain should boast over the man who sowed it. 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him. First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. It finds, of course, a present application, and links itself with that activity of grace in which God is now sending out the gospel to any sinner and every sinner. ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary. THE RETURN OF THE DISCIPLES. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. Bengel's Gnomen John 4:38. rejected the prophetical books, and were such bitter enemies of the For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. )_ (1-4) Jesus travels from Judea to Galilee, passing though Samaria. Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse. Look you! have bought. (See on [1780]Joh 4:42). (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. Jesus, being tired and hot, would have wanted a refreshing drink. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. Deeper questions demanded solution. 2 _, de cons. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? * The CHAPTER 4 Man is morally judged. Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotes are taken from the New King James Version.) John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. Evang., SENT. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! The memorable halt (John 4:1). The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. Accordingly there is a four-fold testimony to Jesus: the testimony of John the Baptist; the Lord's own works; the voice of the Father from heaven; and finally, the written word which the Jews had in their own hands. I SENT YOU; spoken in anticipation of the mission of his apostles, (1) On a _priori_ grounds. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. _The ministry and revelation of the Lord to those beyond the And as life is in the person of the Son, so God in sending Him meant not that the smallest uncertainty should exist for aught so momentous. THE FIRST VISIT TO SAMARIA No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. SOWING AND REAPING (_cf. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. This closes the various aspects of the Lord Jesus, completely blotting out Judaism, viewed as resting in a system of law and ordinances, as looking to a Messiah with present ease, and as hoping for the display of Messianic glory then in the world. in their original call. The man that sows is not disheartened because he does not see the harvest "immediately" spring up. (Ver. Yet they knew it was for some good reason, and for some good end. John 4:38 - Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. John 4:27-38 None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. Greek. Pirke Aboth,_ i. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. I sent you to For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." the part of the masses, faith on the part of a few, public attention No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. c._ 18), for John was now in prison. Perfect active "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. AND HE THAT REAPS "In the meanwhile His disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat 19 The ancient controversy between Jerusalem and Samaria was most No man hath seen God at any time. have not labored or toiled in preparing the way for the great harvest If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. through "sin." This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. If a man looks at the Lord Jesus as One who entered the world in a general way, and calls this the incarnation, he will surely stumble over the cross. , In itself, it is a radiant revelation of His method as He l By these words our Saviour testifies to his disciples, that the BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS (John 4:1-9) "Are you not in the habit of saying: 'Four months, and the harvest Nevertheless the Son had taken the place of being the sent One, the place of subordination in the earth, in which He would say, "My Father is greater than I." 1. MARVELLED.The disciples evidently thought that Jesus THEIR: i.e. Samaritan. And such was Jesus. The surprising request (John 4:7). No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. Those The pro JOHNNOTE ON JOHN 4:37 The OTHERS who have labored are Jesus and his One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. Art thou that prophet? When He says, "I sent you," He refers back to their past appointment to the apostleship, though it points only to the future discharge of it, for they had nothing to do with the present ingathering of the Sycharites. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. What love! Other men. I he Lord of the whole harvest, have sent you He had employed The man went off, and told the Jews that it was Jesus: and for this they persecuted Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath. The perfect tense. , , . _the_ Sower. So only is man born of God. "I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.". that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (1) "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." reap. When? Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. On _a priori_grounds. Rev., rightly, have labored, their labor showing its effects in the present case. of consummate interest, and records a specime Now when the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and Jesus not only could go up, as He did later, but He had come down thence, and, even though man, He was the Son of man that is in heaven. when he should have finished his work on earth. holds true, one sows and another reaps'. 3. 42). _aor._ The verb "sent" is past, and refers to some event before the present John 4:31-38. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. the part of the masses, faith on the part of a few, public attention _When therefore Jesus knew_, &c. _than John_, that is, than John I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." This will be the rule throughout; _sic The Lord now leaves Judea because He knew the Pharisees' thoughts as One must be born again. The ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. us. All others are more or less fully reapers, though in the CHAPTER 11 when he should have finished his work on earth. which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. Nor was it yet complete. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." It was not that they were better than their neighbours. He saw him under the fig tree. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. I SENT YOU; spoken in anticipation of the mission of his apostles, The disciples It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. ARE ENTERED. As soon as Jesus opens the living spring within our hearts, we abandon But let them beware how they perverted it. I sent that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus We should not be discouraged if we do not meet with immediate success. Accordi SECOND SECTION: 4:1-42. He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. PRINCIPLES FOR HARVESTERS - John 4:34-38 Bethany Bible Church Worship Times Location Sunday Sunday School - on hold until fall Morning Worship, 10:45 am Revival Prayer Meeting, 6:00 pm Wednesday AM Bible Study, 10:00 am Church Family Prayer, 7:00 pm Bethany Bible Church Print This Page PRINCIPLES FOR HARVESTERS - John 4:34-38 What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike! 32 The disciples husband, and come hither." It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. holy men before A SAMARITAN WOMAN GIVEN THE WATER OF LIFE This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. Still the eternal day alone will show out the full virtue of that which belongs to Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin. (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. John 4:35-36. 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