43 ¶ The day fol 43. The next day after that mentioned ver. 35, lowing Jesus would (see note [e],) Jesus was passing into Galilee go forth into Gali lee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me. 44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, 8 the Messias to come, foretold by Moses and the prophets, a man like one of us, by name Jesus, the and the prophets, son of Joseph, that dwells at Nazareth in Galilee. did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of 46 And Nathanael come out of Naza 46. Nathanael argued against this from a known said unto him, Can observation among the Jews, that Nazareth being in there any good thing Galilee, and Galilee, as they conceived, looked on by reth? Philip saith God as a mean despicable place, out of which, say unto him, Come and they, ch. viii. 52, never any prophet arose, it was incredible that any one born in Nazareth should be 47 Jesus saw Na- the Messias. To this deceivable arguing Philip gives thanael coming to no other answer than this, That if he would go to him, Behold an Is- him, and see and hear him, he would soon be of raelite indeed, in another mind. see. him, and saith of unto him, Whence whom is no guile! 47. As Nathanael made his approach to Jesus, as 48 Nathanael saith soon as he was within distance of hearing him, Jesus knowest thou me? said, Lo here is a man which is truly an Israelite, Jesus answered and a man of that simplicity and integrity that is much said unto him, Be- valued with God, of that temper described in Jacob, fore that Philip call- Gen. xxv. 27. ed thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. 49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel. 50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these. 51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, 151 Hereafter shall see ye i Ere long (see note [] Matt. xxiii.) ye shall see heaven the heaven opened to receive me up thither, and the open, and the angels holy angels of God visibly appearing to you and atand descending up- tending on me, (Acts i. 9, 10,) after the manner that in on the Son of man. the vision they once appeared unto Jacob. of God ascending AND the third day their was a 'marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there : 2 And both Jesus 2 was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. 3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus "saith unto him, They have no wine. thee? mine hour is not yet come. CHAP. II. a mentioned the want of wine to Christ as an occasion and season of revealing his power by shewing a miracle to all there present in supplying them. 4 Jesus saith unto 4. But Christ repressed her, saying, that this mather, Woman,[a]what ter of his office to which he was sent by God was a have I to do with thing wherein she, though his earthly parent, was not to interpose; farther telling her that it was not yet 5 His mother saith seasonable for him to shew forth his power unto all, unto the servants, intimating his purpose that he would do it more priWhatsoever he saith vately than by her words she appeared to design it. unto you, do it. 5. Whereupon, that none but the waiters might set there six 3water- take notice of it, (who knowing the wine was all pots of stone, after spent could not choose but know if any supply were the manner of the made,) she bids them be obedient to him, and without 4 purifying of the any noise do what he should bid them. Jews, containing two 6. And there were there six vessels of stone, cisterns of a competent bigness, out of which they were 7 Jesus saith unto wont to draw water for every man's use; these were them, Fill the water- set there to wash in, after the manner of the Jews, pots with water. And they filled them who constantly wash before meals: see note [a] Mark vii. up to the brim. 6 And there were or three firkins apiece. 8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it. 9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew 15 Within a while, an' &ρT. 1 marriage feast, yάuos. 2 and his disciples were invited 3 cisterns, υδρίαι. to the feast, ἐκλήθη καὶ ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν γάμον. 4 cleansing, or washing, kalapioμóv. not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, IO And saith unto b b him, Every man at It is the manner of men at feasts to bring their the beginning doth guests the stronger, richer wines at the beginning, set forth good wine; then that which is not so rich; but thou hast reserved and when men have well drunk, then that the richest piece till the latter end of the feast. which is 5 worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. II This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth с gave evidence of the presence of his divinity, (see his glory; and his dis- note [b] ch. i.,) and accordingly his disciples beciples believed on lieved on him as the Son of God. him. 12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his dis ciples: and they con tinued there not And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 And found in the temple those that d that set up a trade to sell sacrifices to them that sold oxen and sheep came thither from far, and that returned money by and doves, and the 7 changers of money way of exchange: see note [b] Matt. xxi. sitting: 15 And when he 15. And using no other weapon but only a whip of had made a scourge little cords, which he found there, he drave them all of small cords, he out of the temple, no man making any resistance, (in drove them all out like manner as he after did again, Matt. xxi. 12,) and of the temple, and the sheep, and the the sheep 8 oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not "my e the temple set apart for God's peculiar presence Father's house an and service, a shop of trade to buy and sell in it. 5 smaller, τὸν ἐλάσσω. τῶν σημείων ὁ Ἰησοῦς. see note [b] Matt. xxi. 6 Jesus made the beginning of his miracles, ἐποίησε τὴν ἀρχὴν 7 exchangers, κερματισταί. 8 money-merchants, KоλAußioтŵr : dise. house of merchan- f interpreted that act of his as an act of zeal, by which some malefactors were punished in the very 17 And his disci- fact without legal process and condemnation among ples f remembered that it was written, the Jews, and to that purpose called to mind that of The zeal of thine the psalmist, Psalm lxix. 9, The zeal of thy house house hath eaten me hath fed or gnawed upon me, and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me; that is, I am as tender of any dishonour done to thy house or thee as if it were done to myself, (see Rom. xv. 3,) and so am stirred up with zeal to vindicate it. up. 18 Then answer 18. Hereupon the Jews came and questioned him, ed the Jews and said saying, What commission dost thou bring? what unto him, What sign evidence of thy coming from God, or, what miracles shewest thou unto us," seeing that thou dost thou do by which it may appear to us that thou doest these things? art invested with such authority as these acts of thine pretend to? 19 Jesus answered 19. Jesus said unto them, The sign that is to be and said unto them, shewn to you is this, that when you have put me to Destroy this temple, death, I now tell you, that I shall within three days and in three days I rise again: see Matt. xii. 39. will raise it up. 20 Then said the 20. This being said by him in a parabolical manJews, Forty and six ner, calling his body this temple, and the putting years was this temple him to death the destroying of this temple, and his in building, and wilt resurrection the rearing it again; they mistook his thou rear it up in three days? meaning, and thought he had spoken of the temple of Jerusalem, (and laid it up as an accusation against him, Matt. xxvi. 61,) and argued against it as an impossible thing for him to rebuild that in so small a time. 21 But he spake of the temple of his body. 21. But the truth was, he spake of his body's being 22 When therefore killed, and rising again the third day, which after the he was risen from the manner of prophets he thus expressed, and mentioned dead, his disciples this as the miracle by which his doctrine was to be confirmed. remembered that he had said this unto Jesus had said. them; and they be- 22. This speech of his the disciples called to mind. lieved the scripture, after his resurrection, and upon that, added to many and the word which other completions of his own predictions, and the predictions of scripture concerning him, they believed Now when he was in Jerusalem at those prophecies as fulfilled in him, and believed his the passover, in the own words as agreeable thereto, and so resolved that feast day, many be- he was the Messias. 23 when they saw the lieved in his name, 23. Many others did so also at Jerusalem when he miracles which he came thither, and acknowledged the power by which he acted to be divine, being convinced thereof by the miracles which he did there at the time of the feast of the passover and unleavened bread. did. 9 that, TI, 24 But Jesus did 24, 25. But Jesus knowing the secrets of men's not commit himself hearts, and wanting no information concerning any unto them, because he knew 10 all men, man, (being able to dive into the inside of a man, into 25 And needed not his very thoughts,) consequently discerned what kind that any should tes- of belief this was in these men, how unlikely to bear tify of man: for he any stress, to hold out in time of temptation, and his knew what was in time of suffering being not yet come, he would not venture himself to the hazard of their unconstancy, and therefore did not so freely converse as to abide and eat and drink with them. A man. THERE was a man of the Pharisees, a ruler of the Jews: CHAP. III. a one of the Jewish sanhedrim. 2. Who durst not be seen or known to come to named Nicodemus, Jesus, and therefore did it by night, (ch. vii. 50, and 2 The same came to xix. 9,) and said unto him, Master, we are convinced Jesus by night, and that thou art sent by God to teach and instruct us in said unto him, Rab- his way, for this thy miracles testify, which could not bi, we know that be done without God's special hand, and would never come from God: for be allowed by God to confirm falsities. thou art a teacher with him. no man can do these 3. Jesus, willing to undeceive him, and that he might miracles that thou not flatter himself that the acknowledging of him to doest, except God be be the Messias, or sent from God, would be sufficient, without the undertaking his service, owning and con3 Jesus answered and said unto him, fessing of him (in despite of all fear of men) without Verily, verily, I say being his proselyte, and forsaking his former course, unto thee, Except a tells him positively, that unless he would be born again, man be born again, which is a phrase to denote a proselyte of Christ, and, when occasion required, forsake all for Christ's sake, even his former course of life and dignity in the Jewish state, (contrary to his coming to him by night, and acknowledging him secretly,) he should not see the kingdom of God, be a Christian here, (which is a privilege of a greater height than that of being a Jew or a member of their sanhedrim,) or a saint hereafter. he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can 4. Nicodemus, attending only to the literal sound a man be born when not sense of Christ's words, asks how a man of full he is old? can he years can again be born. enter the second time womb, and be born? 5. Jesus answers him, Except a man be received as into his mother's a proselyte, and that not of an ordinary sort, such as 5 Jesus answered, are among you Jews, but a Christian proselyte, such Verily, verily, I say as are received by baptism in the Christian church, so unto thee, Except a as to undertake the law of Christ, and renounce his man be [a] born of former (whether heathen or) Jewish course, the first water and of the Spi- expressed by being washed in water, the ceremony of into the kingdom of the Jews' proselytism, (now also made use of by Christ,) by which a man was said by the Jews to be rit, he cannot enter God. 10 all things, or, every man: for some ancient copies read wάvτa. teacher, ἀπὸ Θεοῦ ἐλήλυθας διδάσκαλος. 1 come from God a |