John 5
1645EABJohn 5:1
AFter this] Leviticus 23:2. Deut. 16.
was a feast of the Jewes] Of Pentecost.
market a poole] Or, gate. Nehem. 3. 1. Where the cattell drank, and the sheep for sacrifice were washed.
Bethesda] Which signifieth the house of mercy or powring out, because the waters ran out by conduits: or because there God powred out his mercy in healing all diseases.
John 5:8
take up thy bed] Take up thy bed, for the evidence and manifestation of the cure.
John 5:9
And immediately the man was made whole] Though he had beene so many yeeres lame, Christ presently healed him.
and on the same day was the Sabbath] Christ healing on the Sabbath, sheweth that works of mercy are works of the Sabbath made for man.
John 5:10
The Jewes] They pretend religion to overthrow the ground thereof, faith in Christ.
it is not lawfull for thee to carry thy bed] Jeremiah 17:22. It was not lawfull to carry, except that carrying had been within the compasse of sanctifying the Sabbath, as was the advancement of Gods glory, a work of mercy and necessitie, in which Christ shewed it lawfull.
John 5:13
a multitude being] Or, from the multitude that was.
John 5:14
sinne no more] He thus warneth, to shew him the cause of his infirmitie.
John 5:16
And therefore did the Jexes persecute Jesus] For it is the property of hypocrites, under pretence of zeale for Religion, to execute their private malice.
John 5:17
My Father worketh hitherto] My Father is beneficent in preserving you all on this very Sabbath; and my works are his, and so no violation of the Sabbath: I work by the same power, which not only at the beginning created, and still preserveth all the creatures, but also healed this man.
John 5:18
that God was his Father] Proper and peculiar to him, as a Father by nature, not adoption.
making himselfe equall with God] They understood not, that hee was God of God, co-equall and co-eternall with the Father.
John 5:19
The Sonne can doe nothing of himselfe] Or as distinct from the Fathers work: seeing as they are one God, so have they one will, and one working.
John 5:20
and sheweth him all things] By a divine and unspeakable communication.
John 5:22
the Father judgeth no man] The Father judgeth not alone, because he judgeth by the Sonne, Acts 17:31. Romans 2:16.
John 5:23
honour the Sonne] In the unity of the God-head neither of them can be worshipped without the other.
John 5:24
but is passed from death unto life] Shall as certainly as if it were already done.
John 5:25
the dead shall heare the voyce] In the first or spirituall resurrection, Revelation 20:6.
and they that heare shall live] They that beleeve shall live eternally.
John 5:27
to execute judgement] Supream power to govern and administer all things.
because be is the Sonne of man] Not onely as he is God, but also as hee is man, that all men may see their Judge, Revelation 1:7.
John 5:29
they that have done good] Matthew 25:46.
John 5:30
as I heare, I judge] As I know my Fathers judgement.
John 5:31
If I beare witnesse of my selfe] Chap. 8. 14. If I only testified ye might distrust, but now God the only sufficient witnesse of himselfe witnesseth of me.
John 5:32
There is another, &c.] Matthew 3:17.
John 5:33
and he bare witnesse] Chap. 1. 7.
John 5:34
receive not testimony from man] I ground not on mans witnesse.
John 5:35
for a season] Untill you distasted his testimony concerning me.
John 5:36
I have greater witnesse] See Matthew 3:17. & Matthew 17:5. 1 John 5:7. 2 Peter 1:17.
John 5:37
hath born witnesse of me] Matthew 3:17. & Matthew 17:5.
nor seen his shape] Deuteronomy 4:12. John 1:18.
John 5:39
Search the Scriptures] Or, yee doe search. as Acts 17:11.
John 5:43
if another shall come] If a false Prophet.
John 5:44
How can ye beleeve] Chap. 12. 43.
John 5:45
there is one that accuseth you] Moses, or the Law, in the workes whereof you trust to be justified, shall condemn you, who continue not in every thing written therein, neither beleeve in Christ of whom he testified.
John 5:46
for he wrote of me] Genesis 3:15. Deuteronomy 18:15.