John

Chapter 7 (Continued)
{Verses 25-27: Second Reaction of the People - Sarcasm and Humor}
25-27~~Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say,
"Isn't this the man they are trying to kill? 26~~
Yet here He is, speaking with confidence/courage,
and they are saying nothing to Him {His logic is irrefutable}.
Do the rulers really know that this man is the true Christ? 27~~
But we know {know a little and assume they know everything!}
where this man comes from.
Whenever the Christ comes,
no one will know where He comes from."

{Note: Part of the crowd now says, 'Think the rulers know He is Christ and are just not telling us? (hehe) Then others who THINK they know doctrine say but we know Him and where he comes
from . . . but on one knows when the Christ will come! They know enough to be dangerous. They are mixing the two advents of Christ.}

{Jesus Reveals the Old Testament was a Shadow - Man Only knows God Through Him}
28-29~~Then Jesus shouted in the temple,
while He kept on teaching and kept on saying,
"You both know Me and know where I come from!
And I have not come on My own initiative,
but the One Who sent Me is true . . .
HE {God the Father and His Plan and His doctrine} . . . you know not! 29~~ But I inherently know Him,
because I have come from the immediate source of Him
and He sent Me {at a point in time for a specific purpose}."

{Jesus Protected Until Time for the Cross}
30~~ So then they kept on attempting to violently seize Jesus,
but no one 'offered violence against Him/'laid a hand on Him',
because His time/hour had not yet come
  {still 6 months until the cross (on the Passover)}.

{Note: There is no mention of human protection here for Jesus. RBT says this is most likely angelic protection until the time was at hand for Him to go to the cross.}

{Salvation of Many in the Crowd}
31~~And, many of the crowd believed {pisteuo}
on Him and kept on saying,
"When the Christ comes,
He won't perform more miraculous signs
than this Man did, will He?"

{Note: This is the aorist active indicative of pisteuo. This is faith. And faith is the only human system of thinking that is non-meritorious. Pisteuo also is a transitive verb. Aorist tense - at a point in time this happens. The point of time is taken out of time and perpetuated forever. Once you believe, you are saved and that is forever.}

{Pharisees Upset Part of the Crowd is Defending Jesus}
32~~The Pharisees having heard
that the crowd kept on murmuring
things concerning Him,
so the chief priests and the Pharisees
sent temple guards/police to violently seize him.

{Verses 33-39: Revelation of God the Holy Spirit}
33~~Then Jesus said,
"I keep on being with you for only a little while longer {6 months},
and then I am going to depart suddenly
to the One {God the Father} Who sent Me."

{Note: Regardless of the temple police or Satan himself, Jesus will be protected until God calls Him home. Principal applies to all believers.}

34~~"You will look for Me
but will not find Me,
and where I am you cannot come."

{Note: Believers and unbelievers will take this verse differently. Human nature says, "I want to see Jesus now personally". But, we do see Jesus today! The bible is the Mind of Christ. The 'cannot come' is for the unbelievers in the crowd.}

35~~Then the Jews
who were hostile to Jesus said to one another,
"Where is He going to go that we cannot find Him?
He is not going to go to the Jewish people
dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is He?"

{Note: Where would He go? Maybe He will go where we would not even be seen! Sarcastic response that those lowly scum called Greeks will respond! Religion blasphemes . . . religion always blasphemes! This actually is a prophetic description of the ministry of the apostle Paul. Saul of Tarsus was a Pharisee and could very well have been in this crowd! He would become the apostle to the Gentiles and the greatest apostle of them all! The least becomes the greatest - grace.}

36~~"What did He mean by saying,
'You will look for Me but will not find Me,
and where I am you cannot come'?"

Continued

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