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The cry of Jesus Christ (v.37)
Verse 37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
The last day of the feast of booths would have been the 8th day.
It was called the great day.
There were two possible reasons for this.
First, Jewish tradition held that on the final day of the feast there would be additional rituals to celebrate the last day.
The additional rituals were added to emphasize what they had already celebrated.
For them, the emphasis was a good way to close out the feast.
Being that it was the last one of the feast.
Second, this was the last feast of the three major feasts they celebrated every year.
So the last day of the last feast of the year they would celebrate even more.
This being done so that they could look back at the prior feasts of the year.
Either way, we do know that calling the last day of the feast of booths the final day was intentional in that the emphasis of it made that day different than the rest.
Most likely because of the reasons I gave.
Jesus at the feast on the last day did what He had done already before.
He cried out.
But He would cry out something that the people there needed to hear.
He said in verse 37,
“If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.”
Question: Why did Jesus cry out this statement here on the last day of the feast?
There was a ritual of carrying water from the pool of Siloam and pouring it at the base of the altar during the feast of booths.
The Second possible reason, there was a ritual of carrying water from the pool of Siloam and pouring it at the base of the altar.
The pool of Siloam was located in Jerusalem and it was the place where in the man born blind was told to go to wash.
a golden container filled with water from the pool of Siloam was carried in procession by the High-Priest back to the temple.
The High Priest filled a golden container from the pool and carried it to the temple in a procession.
This pool was also where Jesus instructed the blind man the pool the man was healed from his blindness.
Instructed by Jesus to go to the pool the man was healed from his blindness.
The ritual of carrying water from the pool was done daily to remember the miracle of water from the rock in the wilderness () and became a symbol of hope for when the Messiah would come and deliver His people ().
The Feast of Booths was also associated with God providing rain ().
Zechariah 14:
It was customary for the Jews to read on the first day of the feast (according to the rabbinic text Babylonian Talmud Megillah 31a).
As Jesus had done with Bread in , and with water in , He points to Himself as what people needed most.
Siloam, Pool of.
A pool or reservoir at *Jerusalem, mentioned several times in the OT, and almost certainly the modern Birket Silwān.
In the NT it is referred to only twice, namely in the incident of the man born blind (Jn.
9:1 ff.), whom Christ told to go and wash in this pool, and in Christ’s mention of the fall of a tower ‘in Siloam’ (Lk.
13:4).
In the latter reference, part of the city wall, which ran near the pool, may be intended.
Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
A ritual of bringing water from the pool of Siloam and pouring it at the base of the altar was part of the daily festival celebration.
This ritual memorialized the miracle of water from the rock in the wilderness () and became symbolic of hope for messianic deliverance ().
The Festival of Tabernacles was associated with God providing rain (), and was to be read on the first day of the feast (according to the rabbinic text Babylonian Talmud Megillah 31a).
The seventh day of the festival, the last official day (, ), had a special water-pouring ritual and lights ceremony (according to the rabbinic text Mishnah Sukkah 4.9–10; 5.2–4).
The festival came to be a celebration of God’s future restoration of Israel and the extension of salvation to the nations.
Jesus’ invitation draws on those expectations of future ideal reality under the rule of the Messiah.
was part of the daily festival celebration.
This ritual memorialized the miracle of water from the rock in the wilderness () and became symbolic of hope for messianic deliverance ().
The Festival of Tabernacles was associated with God providing rain (), and was to be read on the first day of the feast (according to the rabbinic text Babylonian Talmud Megillah 31a).
The seventh day of the festival, the last official day (, ), had a special water-pouring ritual and lights ceremony (according to the rabbinic text Mishnah Sukkah 4.9–10; 5.2–4).
The festival came to be a celebration of God’s future restoration of Israel and the extension of salvation to the nations.
Jesus’ invitation draws on those expectations of future ideal reality under the rule of the Messiah.
The Festival of Tabernacles was associated with God providing rain (), and was to be read on the first day of the feast (according to the rabbinic text Babylonian Talmud Megillah 31a).
The seventh day of the festival, the last official day (, ), had a special water-pouring ritual and lights ceremony (according to the rabbinic text Mishnah Sukkah 4.9–10; 5.2–4).
The festival came to be a celebration of God’s future restoration of Israel and the extension of salvation to the nations.
Jesus’ invitation draws on those expectations of future ideal reality under the rule of the Messiah.
A ritual of bringing water from the pool of Siloam and pouring it at the base of the altar was part of the daily festival celebration.
This ritual memorialized the miracle of water from the rock in the wilderness (Num 20:2–13) and became symbolic of hope for messianic deliverance (Isa 12:3).
The Festival of Tabernacles was associated with God providing rain (Zech 14:16–18), and Zech 14 was to be read on the first day of the feast (according to the rabbinic text Babylonian Talmud Megillah 31a).
The seventh day of the festival, the last official day (Lev 23:34, 41–42), had a special water-pouring ritual and lights ceremony (according to the rabbinic text Mishnah Sukkah 4.9–10; 5.2–4).
The festival came to be a celebration of God’s future restoration of Israel and the extension of salvation to the nations.
Jesus’ invitation draws on those expectations of future ideal reality under the rule of the Messiah.
Jesus stood up which meant He was sitting as He was teaching (customary for Rabbi’s to be seated when they taught)
and [He] cried out, which again was done with a passionate plea.
He loudly proclaimed,
and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
“If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.”
Jesus cried this out because it was speaking of who He was and what they needed.
With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
Once one has done this they would know and worship the King!
But for those who do not drink of Christ, they will be left with the plaque of sin and wrath which resides in everyone apart from saving faith.
since it would be the close of the yearly festivals.
since it would be the close of the yearly festivals.
A heart devoid of this water is plagued.
It is because a rejection of this invitation proves that there is no life in them.
Then as He stood up He cried out which was the same Greek word used for proclaimed in verse 28 used only four times in the gospel of John.
The result of belief in Jesus is that the heart that was stone and calloused to God would have life!
It was the last day of the feast of booths which was called the great day and Jesus stood up and He cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.”
Question: What did Jesus mean “If anyone thirsts?”
Prior to our chapter Jesus makes mention of thirst in .
Jesus and His interaction with the woman at the well in .
Where He says in verses 13 and 14 of ,
Later in , Jesus speaks of God being spirit and that those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.
This woman, along with anyone who isn’t drinking from what Christ is offering, is left thirsty.
Meaning that they do not have the Spirit of God.
Meaning that they do not have the Spirit of God.
Being thirsty means to be without the Spirit of God and Jesus is telling His listeners that anyone who is thirsty, let them come to Him.
Jesus said, “let him come to me and drink”
From the Greek it can be read, “come to me and drink.”
There is no let him in the original.
Jesus is simply saying come.
Come to me and drink if you are thirsty.
If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
come to me and drink.
As part of the celebration of Tabernacles, the priest poured freshly drawn water on the altar as a libation to God.
When Jesus cries out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me” (v.
37), he positions himself as the life-giving water of Tabernacles (see 4:10–14; similarly, Jesus declared himself the manna in 6:35).
The “rivers of living water” are a metaphor for the new life that Jesus gives to those who believe (see 3:5).
And life would be impossible without water.
Not the water we think of in the natural.
But the water Jesus was offering here.
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