• Part Second. Events between the Departure into Galilee and the Last Visit to Jerusalem.
John 5:1-11:57.

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JOHN.

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PART SECOND.

EVENTS BETWEEN THE DEPARTURE INTO GALILEE
AND THE LAST VISIT TO JERUSALEM.

v. 1-xi. 57.

§ I. A MIRACLE AND A DISPUTATION IN JERUSALEM. v. 1-47.

1. An Impotent Man Made Whole. 1-9.

• What feast? 1.
• If the passover, how long since the first visit to Jerusalem? Cf.ii. 13.
• How long since going to Galilee? iv. 35.
• What was the man's idea about the pool? 7.
• What troubled the water? L. of B., 189, 190.

2. Jesus Accused of Sabbath-breaking. 10-18.

• Meaning of the warning to the man? 14.
• Why tell the Jews it was Jesus? 13, 15.
• What working referred to? 17.
• How did his remark make him equal with God? 18.

3. Jesus Asserts His Powers. 19-29.

• The connection with the preceding? Cf. 18.
• What powers claimed? 21, 25; 22, 27.
• Why, "because he is the Son of man"? 27.
• Whence these powers? 19.
• Can a deist honor God? 23.

4. The Witnesses for Jesus. 30-40.

• Why witness of himself not true? 31.
• Who the witnesses? 33-39.

5. Causes of Jewish Unbelief. 41-47.

• How was their desire for earthly glory a cause? 44, 41.
• How the absence of love of God a cause? 42, 43.
• Meaning of one coming in his own name? 43.
• How does Moses accuse them? 45. [113] 
• In what sense did they not believe Moses? 46, 47.
• Is it certain that Moses wrote of Jesus?

§ II. A MIRACLE AND A DISPUTATION IN GALILEE. vi. 1-14.

1. Feeding the Five Thousand. vi. 1-14.

• Time of this miracle? 4.
• Why the name, "sea of Tiberias"? 1.
• What new in this account? 5-7.

2. Jesus and His Disciples Recross the Lake. 15-21.

• Why wish to make him king? 15, cf. Matt. xiv. 9-21.
• In what part of the lake were they? 19.
• Design of this narrative? (See the new details, and the speech following.)

3. The Multitude Overtake Jesus. 22-27.

• Where had they slept? 22, cf. Matt. xiv. 22.
• Why not think he had gone to Tiberias? 23, 24.
• Why not answer their question? 25.
• Origin of the proverb of the loaves and fishes? 26.

4. Remarks about the Bread of Life and Coming to Jesus. 28-40.

• How is believing a work of God? 29.
• Can any given to Jesus be lost? 39, cf. xvii. 12.

5. The People Murmur, and Jesus Reiterates. 41-51.

• Distinction between coming and drawing? 44.
• How the drawing done? 45.
• Is the drawing irresistible?
• How is the bread his flesh? 51.

6. More Murmuring, and Another Reiteration. 52-59.

• Why no explanation? [114]

7. Murmuring by the Disciples. 60-65.

• Point in the question about ascending? 62.
• In the remark about spirit and life? 63.

8. Jesus Deserted by All but the Twelve. 66-71.

• Force of Peter's answer? 68, 69.
• When we meet things in scripture irreconcilable with our reason, what should be our conclusion?
• In what sense a devil? 70.
• As he knew Judas, why had he chosen him?

§ III. JESUS AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. vii. 1-x. 21.

1. After Delay He Goes to the Feast. vii. 1-13.

• How much time covered by vii. 1? 2, cf. vi. 4.
• Whose narratives cover this period?
• Was this writer aware of what they had written?
• What disciples referred to? 3, cf. iv. 1.
• Why charge him with acting in secret? 4.
• Why did the world hate him? 7.
• Why say, "for fear of the Jews," when all were Jews? 13.

2. He Teaches in the Temple and Refers to His Previous
Visit. 14-24.

• Meaning of, "having never learned"? 15.
• How would willingness to obey enable one to know the teaching? 17.
• Why deny seeking to kill him? 20, cf. v. 18.
• What new defense against the charge of sabbath-breaking? 23.

3. A Division among the People. 25-36.

• Point in the first question? 25.
• In what sense did they know whence he was? 26, 28.
• Force of reason for not taking him? 30. [115] 
• What signs did he speak of? 31.
• Why not understand his remark about going to him that sent him? 33, 36.
• What the Dispersion? 35.

4. Speech on the Last Day of the Feast, and Its Effect. 37-44.

• Why the last day the great day? 37. See Lev. xxiii. 36, 39.
• How is the Spirit given to the believer like rivers of living water? 38, 39.
• Where do the scriptures say it? 38. See Prov. xviii. 4.
• In what sense the Spirit not yet given? 39.
• Did John know that Jesus had ascended?
• Ignorance of the objectors. 42.

5. Confusion among Chief Priests and Pharisees. 45-52.

• What speech had the officers heard? 32-44.
• Nature of the argument addressed to the officers? 47-49.
• Point in the question of Nicodemus? 51.
• What the mistake in their answer to him? 52.

6. Discussion about a Woman Taken in Adultery. vii. 53-viii. 11.

• What of the genuineness of this passage? See margin.
• What of its authenticity? (Accepted by the best critics.)
• Why not bring the guilty man? 3, 4.
• What accusation did they hope to make? 6.
• In what sense did he not condemn her? 11.
• The design of Jesus in thus answering the accusers?

7. Jesus Declares Himself the Light of the World. viii. 12-20.

• Connection of this paragraph? 12, cf. vii. 44.
• Why now say that his testimony of himself is true? 14, cf. 18; v. 31.
• Meaning of, "I judge no man"? 15.
• In what way is it written, "that [116] the witness of two men is true"? Deut. xvii. 6.
• Meaning of, "Where is thy father"? 19.
• What is meant by, "the treasury"? 20.

8. He Announces His Departure, and the Inability of His
Enemies to Follow Him. 21-30.

• Inference as to all who die in sin? 21.
• Why not know that he referred to God? 27.
• What meant by their lifting him up, and what the connection of thought? 28, cf. 21.
• The way to have God with us? 29.
• What was in this speech to make them believe? 30.

9. He Tells the Jews How to be Free. 31-45.

• What bondage referred to? 33.
• In what sense were they the children of the devil? 44.
• In what sense a murderer from the beginning, and the father of lying? 44.
• Why his saying the truth a cause of unbelief? 45.

10. He Challenges the Jews to Convict Him of Sin. 46-50.

• Singularity of this challenge?
• Ground of his demand for faith? 46.
• When first the charge of having a demon? 48; vii. 20.

11. Jesus Declares the Power of His Word, and His
Pre-existence. 51-59.

• In what sense, "never see death"? 51.
• What is it to keep his word? 51.
• In what sense did Abraham see his day? 56.
• Did Jesus appear older than he was? 57.
• Why wish to stone him? 59.

12. Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind. ix. 1-12.

• Explain the question of the disciples. 2.
• Meaning of the [117] answer? 3.
• The industry of Jesus. 4.
• Describe the pool of Siloam. 7; L. of B., 191.
• What faith did the blind man exhibit? 7.

13. The Pharisees Investigate the Miracle. 13-34.

• Why take the man to the Pharisees? 13.
• Steps taken in the investigation? 15, 18-21, 24.
• How would modern scientists have proceeded?
• Would a knowledge of science have helped the Pharisees?
• Bearing of the miracles on the character of Jesus? 31, 33, 16.
• Point in the charge of being born in sin? 34, cf. 2.
• Cast him out of what? 34, cf. 22.

14. Jesus Meets the Man again. 35-41.

• How did Jesus find him?
• Why did he at once believe? 37, cf. 17.
• What blindness? 39-41.

15. The Parable of the Shepherd and His Sheep. x. 1-6.

• Significance of the parable?
• Why did they not understand? 6.

16. Contrast between the True Shepherd and the Hirelings. 7-18.

• How is he the door? 7.
• Who the thieves that came before him? 8.
• Meaning of, "go in and go out"? 9.
• Who the hireling? 12, cf. 8.
• Who the other sheep? 16.
• In what sense did no one take his life from him? 18.

17. Division among His Hearers. 19-21.

• Among what class of Jews? [118]

§ IV. AT THE FEAST OF DEDICATION, BEYOND THE JORDAN,
AND
RECALLED TO BETHANY. x. 22-xi. 57.

1. Renewal of Remarks about His Sheep. x. 22-30.

• What the feast of dedication? 22; Josephus, Ant., B. XII. C.'s v, vii.
• Interval passed over?
• Were they really in suspense? 24.
• How not being his sheep the cause of unbelief? 26, 27.
• Can any of his sheep be lost? 28, 29.

2. Discussion about Stoning Jesus. 31-39.

• Where written and what the meaning? 34, 35. See Ps. lxxxii. 1-8; Ex. xxi. 6; xxii. 8, 9.
• How, "in your law"?
• His argument? 35, 36.

3. Jesus Departs beyond the Jordan. 40-42.

• What part of the Jordan? 40, cf. Matt. iii. 1.
• Cause of their belief? 42.

4. Jesus is Recalled to Bethany. xi. 1-16.

• Why not give the name in the message? 3.
• When was the anointing done? 2, cf. xii. 3; Matt. xxvi. 6-13.
• In what sense the sickness not unto death? 4.
• Force of remark about walking in the day? 9, 10.
• Why speak of dying with him? 16.

5. Lazarus Raised from the Dead. 17-44.

• Force of Martha's first remark? 21, 22.
• Why Mary the same remarks?
• Why did the Jews follow Mary and not Martha? 31.
• What caused Jesus to weep? 33-35, cf. Heb. iv. 15. [119] 
• Reasoning of the lookers-on? 36, 37.
• How did he come forth with his feet bound? 44.

6. Immediate Effects of This Miracle. 45-53.

• Why tell the Pharisees? 46.
• Real ground of their hostility? 48.
• Double meaning in the words of Caiaphas? 49-52.
• Why say, "high priest that year"? 51. Josephus, Ant., B. XVIII. C. ii.
• The anomaly in their resolve? 53.

7. Jesus Retires until the Passover. 54-57.

• What wilderness? 54.
• Why come before the passover to purify themselves? 55, cf. Num. ix. 9-11.
• Why the doubts as to his coming? 56, cf. 57.