Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Hereafter, etc.—The key to this great saying is Jacob's vision (Genesis 28:12-22), to which the allusion plainly is. To show the patriarch that though alone and friendless on earth his interests were busying all heaven, he was made to see "heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon a" mystic "ladder reaching from heaven to earth." "By and by," says Jesus here, "ye shall see this communication between heaven and earth thrown wide open, and the Son of man the real Ladder of this intercourse."
Because I said, etc.—"So quickly convinced, and on this evidence only?"—an expression of admiration.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 1:51:
Genesis 28:12
Matthew 18:10
Mark 13:26
John 1:38
1 Corinthians 13:12
Revelation 3:14
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