John 12:39 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁹Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,

John 12:39 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 5:44
How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
2 Peter 2:14
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
Isaiah 6:9-10
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. …
John 10:38
But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
John 6:44
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.

Topics

Atheism Blind Blindness Disbelief Disease Godlessness Impenitence Infidelity

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 37-41)

We have here the honour done to our Lord Jesus by the Old-Testament prophets, who foretold and lamented the infidelity of the many that believed not on him. It was indeed a dishonour and grief to Christ that his doctrine met with so little acceptance and so much opposition; but this takes off the wonder and reproach, makes the offence of it to cease, and made it no disappointment to Christ, that h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 39)

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.