John 10:22-33
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John
Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the temple area walking in Solomon’s Colonnade.
The Feast of the Dedication was what we now know as HANUKKAH. It celebrated the rededication of the temple in 165 BC. (This was 3 years after the altar had been desecrated by Antiochus Epiphanes. it was the crowning moment of the Maccabean revolt, which eventually gave Israel its independence for a short time.) (Swindoll, p. 206)
This was prophecied in .
Daniel
Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled—the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host that will be trampled underfoot?”
He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.”
Levit
On the first day you are to take choice fruit from the trees, and palm fronds, leafy branches and poplars, and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.
So Solomon observed the festival at that time, and all Israel with him—a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt. They celebrated it before the Lord our God for seven days and seven days more, fourteen days in all. On the following day he sent the people away. They blessed the king and then went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.
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and that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: “Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make booths”—as it is written.
Neh
The Feast of Dedication included:
Carrying of Branches
Liturgies from
(Note the subtitle)
The Candelabrum to bring light
This festival occurs in the Jewish month Kislev which is December. Why do you think John mentions the feast and it being winter?
It could mean that Jesus taught inside instead of outside because of the temperatures.
This would also be the place where the first believers after the resurrection would gather regularly to proclaim Jesus.
While the beggar held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon’s Colonnade.
The apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Colonnade.
Time is running out for Jesus and He knows it. The winter of Jesus life was approaching.
2 months after the last confrontations with the Jews
The Jews gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
They were quarreling with Jesus.
Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.
For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.
Jesus has already many times over proved who He was. Yet they doubted, why?
Was this questioning good or bad? It was bad- even to the point of being a trap.
The Messiah was to be a king- if that person as king would be named, they would be a traitor because it went against the Roman government.
Their questioning was in fact ill-will. It was a continuation of rejecting God.
Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.”
John
And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent.
John
It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
But we know where this man is from; when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.”
Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him,
John 7:2
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me. Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!
John 9
We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”
The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly man who does his will. Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.
Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father’s name speak for me,
John
How did Jesus tell them?
but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.
John 10:26
Those that do know Him do not hear His voice. Those that do not hear Him do not know Him.
These are points re-emphasized from earlier verses in .
Not knowing Jesus is not an excuse. Rather it is an indictment.
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
This is a repeat of verses 3-5, 16.
Notice the imperative that is given: Listen, know, follow.
Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”
This poor man called, and the Lord heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.
There are several references to eternal life in John’s Gospel:
Water for the thirsty
but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 4:
On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”
Something experienced now then culminating later in the resurrection of the last day
“I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.
Bread for the hungry
Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
In a relationship with the Living God
Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Those receiving eternal life will never perish.
Eternal life exists because man’s soul is immortal. The gift of eternal life is free. The Author and Creator of life has power to give it. Notice that it is not I will, but I give it: It is present tense.
Those that receive eternal life are rescued from perishing.
Once you have it, you cannot be plucked away. This idea is presented in the Old Testament as well:
Surely it is you who love the people;
all the holy ones are in your hand.
At your feet they all bow down,
and from you receive instruction,
This is one of the clearest statements in the Bible that one who believes in Jesus for salvation will never be lost. Eternal life is a gift.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him.”
“I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.
John
The Greek literal translation is “they will indeed not ever perish.”
The security of the sheep is found in the ability of the Shepherd to defend and preserve the flock.
“…no one can snatch them out of my hand.”
Snatch is from the Greek word HARPASEI. It is related to HARPAX which means ravenous wolves or robbers. The word used in (the wolf attacks) is HARPAZEI which literally means “snatches away.”
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
Notice what is prevailing here:
A Loving Relationship- He died for the sheep
A Living Relationship- He cares for the sheep
A Lasting Relationship- He keeps His sheep
I and the Father are one.”
Here is a very clear statement of the deity of Christ. This is stronger than Jesus statement in where He stated He came down from Heaven, or that He existed before Abraham lived.
The idea of the use of the word ONE does not mean they are identical persons, but rather they are ONE is essence. He is speaking about unity.
Jesus’ will is identical with the Father’s.
Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known.
I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one:
John 10
Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him,
This is the third time Jesus is about to be stoned in this Gospel: ; ; and .
All three instances sprang from the claim Jesus made that He was one with God.
John 10:32
but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
Jesus went around doing good works and miracles:
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
People were overwhelmed with amazement. “He has done everything well,” they said. “He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”
Not so much in His power, but in the Power of Him who has commissioned Him to do them.
He says He does not do anything in secret.
“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus replied. “I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.
Psalm
He has shown his people the power of his works,
giving them the lands of other nations.
Jesus works and miracles were not only works and miracles, they were acts of mercy: He healed the sick; cleansed the lepers; cast out demons, all of which mercy for those that received and for the public to see.
Notice the ingratitude of the Jews. God speaks about this:
Is this the way you repay the Lord,
O foolish and unwise people?
Is he not your Father, your Creator,
who made you and formed you?
This is what the Lord says:
“What fault did your fathers find in me,
that they strayed so far from me?
They followed worthless idols
and became worthless themselves.
Micah
“My people, what have I done to you?
How have I burdened you? Answer me.
“We are not stoning you for any of these,” replied the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”
John
The crime was blasphemy. A blasphemer was to be stoned.
Lev
anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.
The proof of the crime: being a mere man. What was their mistake? Thinking Jesus was a mere man.