The Gospel of John Quotes

“The mother of Jesus appears twice in this Gospel—here, and at the cross (19:25 ff.). There is also an allusion to her in 6:42. In none of these places is”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

“It was only those whose faith and allegiance were beyond question that he admitted into the inner secret of his person and purpose.”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

“There are two levels of believing in Jesus’ name—that spoken of in John 1:12, which carries with it the authority to become God’s children, and that spoken of here.”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

“question of the chronological relation of John’s account of the temple cleansing to the Synoptic version which dates it during Holy Week is not easy to answer; an adequate answer, indeed, would require a separate excursus.150 It seems probable that John takes it out of its chronological sequence and places it, with programmatic intent, in the forefront of his record of Jesus’ Jerusalem ministry. If his readers understand the significance of this incident, they will know what the ministry was all about.”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

“The Evangelist explains that the words of Jesus referred to his body,”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

“The Jews” here are members of the establishment, especially the temple authorities, as in Mark 11:25 f. Their request for a “sign” was misguided. What sign could have been more eloquent than that which they had just witnessed?”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

“What Jesus did is best classified as an act of prophetic symbolism. If he had Zechariah 14:21 in his mind when he protested against his Father’s house (cf. Luke 2:49) being turned into a supermarket, we may recall that the preceding verses of Zechariah 14 tell how all nations will go up to Jerusalem to worship.”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

“The money-changers also performed a convenient service for visitors to the temple, who might bring all sorts of coinage with them and require to have it exchanged for something more acceptable.”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

“We looked on his glory,” said the Evangelist of the incarnate Word in his prologue. Now he has narrated the first of a sequence of “signs”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

“But if it is a miracle of the old creation, it is a parable of the new creation. Christ has come into the world to fulfill and terminate the old order, and to replace it by a new worship “in spirit and truth” which surpasses the old as much as wine surpasses water.”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

“The filling of the jars to the brim indicates that the appointed time for the ceremonial observances of the Jewish law had run its full course; these observances had so completely fulfilled their purpose that nothing of the old order remained to be accomplished. The time had come therefore for the new order to be inaugurated. The wine symbolizes the new order as the water in the jars symbolized the old order. The “chief steward”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

“The water, provided for purification as laid down by Jewish law and custom, stands for the whole ancient order of Jewish ceremonial, which Christ was to replace by something better. The servants, mindful”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

“The kind of action she wanted him to perform, for the limited purpose she had in mind, was not in keeping with his messianic vocation; perhaps it smacked too much of the turning of stones into loaves of bread (one of the Synoptic temptations).”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

“Some interpreters see a symbolic significance in “the third day.” Jesus’ manifesting his glory (verse 11) on the third day has been held to foreshadow his resurrection. It is very doubtful if the Evangelist had any such thought in his mind.”
― F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition