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The Setting/Introduction (v.14)
2. A Question and Christ’s Response (v.15-19)
3. The Crowds answer and Christ’s Response (v.20-24)
1.
The Setting/Introduction (v.14)
Verse 14 About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.
The setting has us about the middle of the feast where Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.
Last week in the beginning of chapter 7 we saw that Jesus, after speaking in the synagogue in Capernaum, would go about/walk around Galilee.
The setting has us about the middle of the feast where Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.
Jesus avoided going south to Judea because according to verse 1, the Jews were seeking to kill him there.
the Jews were seeking to kill him.
Jesus’ brothers in verses 3 and 4 said to Him,
“Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.
For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly.
If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), .
And John waisted no time telling us that they did not believe in Him in verse 5.
Which was something we looked into given that these were His very own brothers.
We spoke of how it did not matter whether we are born into a Christian family, or even a broken home.
Saving faith happens only by God granting it no matter the background.
God saves by grace which does not consider the person’s merit or achievements.
Which was an encouraging truth that we found in the fact that even His own brothers did not believe.
This was an encouraging truth which we found in the fact that even His own brothers did not believe.
Jesus went on to explain how His time had not yet come and that the world could not hate those who did not believe.
John 7:6-
His time had not yet come, meaning that the time of His death and resurrection was already appointed and it was not at the time that His brother had asked.
If He did go to Judea He would have been killed by the people there.
He also said to His brothers that the world could not hate them.
This was because they were of the world.
They did not believe.
The world hates Christ because He testified that its works were evil and unbelievers could not testify that their works were evil because they themselves were of the world.
The world hates Chrst me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
His brothers would afterwards, go to the feast, which was the feast of booths, and Jesus would go not publicly but privately according to verse 10.
The setting has us about the middle of the feast where Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.
The people there were complaining about what He had said about Himself.
Afterwards He went up to the temple there and began to teach.
The people there were complaining about what He had said about Himself.
the people there were complaining about what He had said about Himself.
And we saw that there was division among them about who He was.
John 7:12-
As He was teaching there we see the response to His teaching.
They marveled at what He was teaching there in the temple.
He refused to go to Judea and He did not succumb to man’s timing.
He was on divine time.
And He made it clear that His time had not yet come.
He was on divine time.
His time had not yet come.
We continue onto verses 15-24 where we see,
2. A Question and Christ’s Response (v.15-19)
Read Verse 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”
The question asked here was: “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”
This came because they marveled at what He was teaching there at the temple.
To marvel meant to wonder at some event or object.
It meant, to be amazed.
They were amazed at what Jesus had spoken because they said he has learning but never studied.
This may have meant that they assumed Jesus to not have studied under a Rabbi.
What we do see here is that they acknowledged that He had learning.
Meaning that He knew the Scriptures.
They were marveled by it.
Mainly because of the depth and knowledge in which Jesus spoke.
This reminded me of what Jesus had spoken earlier in John 6:45-46.
Jesus had spoken of those who heard and learned from the Father as those who would come to Him.
Which proved their belief in Him.
Which proves that they believe.
But Jesus however speaks not as One who has been taught by God, but He was teaching as One sent by the Father.
as One who’s teaching is from God.
This is what He tells them in verse 16.
Read Verse 16 So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
Anything Jesus spoke was directly from the Father who sent Him.
So the question, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?...”
Is answered with “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.”
This again highlights the humility of the Son and the reason for their marveling at it.
Jesus, the very word of God, always referred to the Father as the authority and reason for anything spoken and done by Him.
And those who have learned from the Father and have been drawn by Him, they will see and hear that this is from God!
Verse 17 tells us who it is that could understand what Jesus had spoken.
“My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
Read Verse 17 If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
Anyone who’s will is to do God’s will, will have discernment.
They will know “whether the teaching is from God or whether Jesus is speaking on His own authority.”
This goes back to those who do not believe.
If you do not believe genuinely, you cannot be about God’s will.
And if this is the case, you will reject the Scriptures for what they say about Christ.
This passage shows us that one without saving faith can be amazed by teaching even coming from Christ Himself without genuine saving faith.
Remember ?
They were not about God’s will because they did not believe.
They were amazed by Him yet they refused to come to Him.
And the evidence of this was found in their seeing Christ as:
Only a good man
He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.”
13 Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), .
Leading the people astray
Which proves that they did not have faith.
Jesus tethered all that He had spoken and taught to the Father who sent Him.
Jesus did not come on His own authority which we can see over and over again.
To be amazed by Jesus is not enough.
One has to believe that Jesus was sent by the Father and was Himself the Christ, the Son of God!
Jesus constantly spoke of being sent by the Father.
John 5:36-
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