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Who Has Believed Our Report?

37 But although He had done so many asigns before them, they did not believe in Him,  
38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke:
a“Lord, who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”  
39 Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:
40 “Hea has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts,
bLest they should see with their eyes,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.”  
41 aThese things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.  

Walk in the Light

42 Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but abecause of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;  
43 afor they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.  
44 Then Jesus cried out and said, a“He who believes in Me, bbelieves not in Me cbut in Him who sent Me.  
45 And ahe who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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John 12:39-40

Therefore they could not believe, because Esaias said again, He hath blinded their eyes, that they should not see, etc.—That this expresses a positive divine act, by which those who wilfully close their eyes and harden their hearts against the truth are judicially shut up in their unbelief and impenitence, is admitted by all candid critics [as OLSHAUSEN], though many of them think it necessary to contend that this is in no way inconsistent with the liberty of the human will, which of course it is not.



John 12:37-41

It is the manner of this Evangelist alone to record his own reflections on the scenes he describes; but here, having arrived at what was virtually the close of our Lord's public ministry, he casts an affecting glance over the fruitlessness of His whole ministry on the bulk of the now doomed people.

though he had done so many miracles—The word used suggests their nature as well as number.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 12:39:

Acts 28:26
Hebrews 1:6

 

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