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The reason for His proceeding to Galilee is given in John 4:44.— αὐτὸς γὰρ ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐμαρτύρησεν, “for Jesus Himself testified”. The evangelist would not have presumed to apply to Jesus the proverbial expression, προφήτης … οὐκ ἔχει, but Jesus Himself used it. The saying embodies a common ...
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John 4:43-44.[198] Τὰς δύο ἡμέρας] The article is to be...
- 44 Now He Himself Had Testified That a Prophet Has No Honor in His Own Hometown
(44) A prophet hath no honour.--The statement that a prophet...
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54 Jesus answered, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is your God. 55 Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him.
This would put John's remark about a prophet's honor in context. Jesus is going to Galilee, the region, but bypasses His hometown of Nazareth, since the people there have no particular interest in His message.
Jesus rejects their charge and continues to insist on his relationship with his Father: I honor my Father and you dishonor me (v. 49). In failing to honor Jesus they are disobedient to God's will, which is that "all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father" (5:23).
Jan 8, 2019 · I’m going to share 18 passages that show that even if we only had Mark and the Old Testament documents, we could still arrive at John’s conclusions about Jesus’ deity. These verses taken together present a pretty clear picture: Mark believes Jesus is God.
May 14, 2021 · The argument that John 5:18 – implies that Jesus is equal to God is bit of a fallacy. Jesus did not say this the Jews did, because he was becoming popular and they wanted to stop him and charge him with blasphemy to get rid of him.
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Christ alone could say, “I honour my Father,” “I seek not my own glory.”. The perfect life was based on a perfect motive. Our Lord claims, then, to be sinless in a very different sense from that in which a man might defy an opponent to prove against him a specific form of wrongdoing in a court of law.
