Who is Jesus? John 5:17-30

Ryle These verses begin one of the most deep and solemn passages in the 4 gospels. They show us the Lord Jesus asserting His own Divine nature…Nowhere does our Lord dwell so fully on these subjects as in the chapter before us. And nowhere, we must confess, do we find so thoroughly the weakness of man’s understanding.

Psalm 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

Lewis (Many) people say about Him (Jesus): "I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher but I don’t accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice.

Lewis Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 5:16-17 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Psalm 121:4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

Colossians 1:17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

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John 7:1 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

John 7:19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?

John 7:25 Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?

John 8:37 I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.

John 8:40 …but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

Augustine Behold, the Jews understand what the Arians do not understand.

Philippians 2:6 …who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped

Simeon …we are indebted to their perverseness for one of the clearest and most important statements in all the sacred volume.

Simeon The whole Christian world is much indebted to the zeal of the blind, and bigoted, and persecuting Jews in our Lord’s day; since they elicited many important truths which might not otherwise have been brought to light.

Who is Jesus? I.Unity II.Authority III.Honor

Who is Jesus? I.Unity

John 14:31 …but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father.

Morris Jesus’ actions do not proceed from merely human motivation. He acts only in accordance with the divine revelation. Thus He looks forward to doing greater works, for He will be shown greater works. The result will be that His hearers will be astonished. The following verses show that these “greater works” are the Son’s activities in giving life and in judging.

Who is Jesus? I.Unity II.Authority

John 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit…

2 Kings 5:7 Am I God, to kill and to make alive…

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Genesis 18:25 Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?

Who is Jesus? I.Unity II.Authority III.Honor

Robertson Jesus claims the same right to worship from men that the Father has.

Stott If Jesus who thus taught with authority was the Son of God made flesh, we must bow to his authority and accept his teaching. We must allow our opinions to be moulded by his opinions, our views to be conditioned by his views. And this includes his uncomfortable and unfashionable teaching.

2 Thessalonians 1:10-12 …when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. 11 To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, 12 so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be…

2 Thessalonians 1:10-12 glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.