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John
Chapter
7 (Continued) {Note: On the first seven days of the Feast of the Tabernacles, a great show was put on - 'the Golden Pitcher March'. The Priests would carry a golden pitcher to the fountain of 'Si-loom' (sp) surrounded by singers, musical instruments, on and on, and would march through the middle of Jerusalem. They would then dip the golden pitcher into the fountain and draw water. Then the whole procession would dance back to the Temple where they would sing Isaiah 12:3 'with joy shall you draw water from the well of salvation'. On the 8th day, they did not get the water so Jesus is now telling them that He is the water they should want to drink.} {Note: This is a very dramatic event in the Greek syntax. Changing the tense of the verbs grabs your attention. First, histemi means to stand. It is in the perfect active indicative tense meaning that Jesus did this and the results would last forever. There were many positive types in the crowd just waiting for the gospel message.} {Note: Next comes krazo in the aorist active indicative. Jesus shouted the entire message. The Temple was large and filled with people. Jesus was an excellent orator. His voice carried throughout the Temple . . . per RBT even to the room where the Sanhedrin was plotting to kill Him They also heard the message.} {Note: The third verb with a tense change is lego - linear action sart - dramatic present active participle. It means to keep on communicating.} {Note: This is a very important verse in the Greek - sorry, but the syntax is extremely important! Dipsao means to thirst. It is in the present active subjunctive. The subjunctive recognizes they may or may not be thirsty. NEXT, and this is really important, follows erchomai in the imperative mood! An imperative following a subjunctive indicates that though human will permits the fact that some may be positive at the point of God consciousness, but RBT says the imperative here indicates that those who ARE positive at the point of God consciousness WILL ALWAYS be positive at the point of gospel hearing.} {Note: Pisteuo here is in the present active participle form. It means to have faith or believe. There is no merit in believing. The merit goes to the object of belief - Jesus Christ.}
{'Water'
Here Said to Represent God the Holy Spirit} {Note: Pisteuo is a dramatic present here. It is a dramatic event to receive eternal salvation. When Jesus spoke, He was 6 months before the cross and then after resurrection and ascension plus 10 days, the Holy Spirit would be received by all believers in the Church Age. Sometimes pisteuo is in the aorist tense because it is a cumulative aorist. Every point in time that some person in the Church Age believes and receives salvation, is gathered into one point of time, divorced from time and perpetuated forever.}
{Verses
40-52: Results of Our Lord's Message} {Note: In the Old Testament, only Moses had both the gift of Prophet and the office of Prophet. So, he was unique. He told of another unique 'the Prophet' to come - prophesizing on Jesus Christ. These were positive based on understanding of the Old Testament.}
{Positive
Based on Accepting the Message Itself.}
42~~"Don't
the scriptures say {Note: Religion always distorts the scripture to try and make it fit their preconceived ideas. They are mistakenly saying this does not match Jesus.}
43~~So
there became a division {violent factions} {Note: Jesus was the most controversial man of His day and most likely ever. 'Controversy' does not imply 'bad' as most think. It just means that He was a topic of conversation where the debaters had differing and strong opinions.}
44~~Some
of them were wanting to violently seize Him, {Note: We see from the next verse, that 'some' here refers to the Temple guards/police that the Sanhedrin Counsel sent to capture Jesus. They listened to His message, and it was His message that stopped them - they were positive.}
45~~Then
the officers {temple police}
46~~The
officers received an answer from their inner resources, discerned
and said {apokrinomai}, "Not ever, not at any time, {Note: The temple police have spent all their careers listening to the chief priests and Pharisees 'talking' in the temple. They are really slapping the Sanhedrin members across their faces when they say this!} {Note: Laleo means to speak/teach in categories. Lego means to speak/teach exegetically.}
47-48~~Then
the Pharisees received an answer {Note: The Sanhedrin start with the debater's technique. You are stupid. The mob learn from us and without us know nothing! WE are your spiritual leaders. Therefore, you should follow us NOT the masses who, in this case are ignorant rabble and will go to hell for following Jesus!}
50-51~~Nicodemus,
who had gone to Jesus by night {John 3:1} {Note: Nicodemus, who RBT says is a believer at this point, answers their desire to kill Jesus with a point of law! They have judged Jesus without a fair trial! The law was very good. It was the application of the law by these religious jealous men that was evil.}
52~~They
{Sanhedrin} received an answer from their inner resources, discerned
and said {apokrinomai}, {Note: Nicodemus stayed objective with the law. The Sanhedrin went subjective and used 'name calling' as their response. All the Sanhedrin were 'pure Jews' from the Southern Kingdom and Galilee was 'up north' and a mixture of many peoples and considered scum by the ethically biased Southerners.} 53~~And each one departed to his own house. {Note: The Sanhedrin Counsel broke up without arresting Jesus or punishing Nicodemus or the temple police. They are fuming though and readying their next plot to destroy Jesus (again this is from their mental attitude sins of jealousy, bitterness, envy, and mental murder - they will eventually convert these sins to the overt sin of the murder of Jesus.} ************************************************** Joshua_Sozo and Syndein are the Trademarks of Syndein a California DBA of Kenneth Sidley & Associates, Inc., a California Corporation. All rights reserved. Copyright© Syndein 1982-2010. All rights reserved. This page is sponsored by Kenneth Sidley, CPA, an Orange County California CPA (949) 706-3133. Please call Ken for high quality, low cost CPA services in Orange County California. This includes audit, review, compilation, tax returns, Quickbooks, and business consulting services. This page is sponsored by Moxxor For Pain Free Living. Moxxor is a highly concentrated Omega 3 product that has reduced inflammation in this writer. Please go to this website to read more about Moxxor.
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