Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Now is the judgment of this world—the world that "crucified the Lord of glory" (I Corinthians 2:8), considered as a vast and complicated kingdom of Satan, breathing his spirit, doing his work, and involved in his doom, which Christ's death by its hands irrevocably sealed.
now shall the prince of this world be cast out—How differently is that fast-approaching "hour" regarded in the kingdoms of darkness and of light! "The hour of relief; from the dread Troubler of our peace—how near it is! Yet a little moment, and the day is ours!" So it was calculated and felt in the one region. "Now shall the prince of this world be cast out," is a somewhat different view of the same event. We know who was right. Though yet under a veil, He sees the triumphs of the Cross in unclouded and transporting light.
The people therefore that stood by, said, It thundered; others, An angel spake to him—some hearing only a sound, others an articulate, but to them unintelligible voice.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 12:31:
Job 1:6
Ecclesiastes 9:18
Isaiah 42:1
Daniel 9:27
Matthew 4:9
Luke 10:18
John 14:30-31
John 16:11
Romans 8:3-4
Ephesians 2:2
Ephesians 6:12
Colossians 2:15
1 Timothy 3:6
Hebrews 9:23
1 John 5:4
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