32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
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Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-36)Honour is here done to Christ by his Father in a voice from heaven, occasioned by the following part of his discourse, and which gave occasion to a further conference with the people. In these verses we have, I. Christ’s address to his Father, upon occasion of the trouble which seized his spirit at this time: Now is my soul troubled , John 12:27. A strange word to come from Christ’s mouth, and at…
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