约翰福音 12:29

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

站在旁邊的群眾聽見了，就說：“打雷了。”另外有人說：“有天使對他說話。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
站 在 旁 边 的 众 人 听 见 ， 就 说 ： 打 雷 了 。 还 有 人 说 ： 有 天 使 对 他 说 话 。

Contextual Overview

²⁷ "Now I am very troubled. Should I say, ‘Father, save me from this time'? No, I came to this time so I could suffer. ²⁸ Father, bring glory to your name!" Then a voice came from heaven, "I have brought glory to it, and I will do it again." ²⁹ The crowd standing there, who heard the voice, said it was thunder. But others said, "An angel has spoken to him." ³⁰ Jesus said, "That voice was for your sake, not mine. ³¹ Now is the time for the world to be judged; now the ruler of this world will be thrown down. ³² If I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people toward me." ³³ Jesus said this to show how he would die. ³⁴ The crowd said, "We have heard from the law that the Christ will live forever. So why do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this ‘Son of Man'?" ³⁵ Then Jesus said, "The light will be with you for a little longer, so walk while you have the light. Then the darkness will not catch you. If you walk in the darkness, you will not know where you are going. ³⁶ Believe in the light while you still have it so that you will become children of light." When Jesus had said this, he left and hid himself from them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thundered: Exodus 19:16, Exodus 20:18, Job 37:2-5, Job 40:9, Ezekiel 10:5, Revelation 6:1, Revelation 8:5, Revelation 11:19, Revelation 14:2

An angel: Acts 23:8, Acts 23:9, Revelation 18:1, Revelation 18:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:9 - that the Psalms 18:13 - thundered Psalms 29:3 - thundereth Psalms 68:33 - his voice John 11:42 - but Acts 22:9 - but 2 Peter 1:17 - there came

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The people therefore that stood by and heard [it],.... Some more confusedly, who were farthest off; others more distinctly, who were nearer: the first of these,

said that it thundered; as it used to do when "Bath Kol" was heard, which, as the Jews say a,

"is a voice that comes out of heaven proceeding from the midst of another voice,''

as thunder; wherefore some took this for thunder, and others for the voice of an angel out of the thunder:

others said, an angel spoke to him; these being nearer, perceived it was an articulate voice, which expressed certain distinct words, which they thought were delivered by an angel; for the Jews had a mighty notion of the discourse and conversation of angels with men, which their doctors pretended to understand; particularly R. Jochanan ben Zaccai, a Rabbi, who was living at this time, had learned their speech, and was well versed in it b.

a Piske Tosephot in T. Bab. Sanhedrin, art. 30. b T. Bab. Succa, fol. 28. 1. & Bava Bathra, fol. 134. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The people - A part of the people.

It thundered - The unexpected sound of the voice would confound and amaze them; and though there is no reason to doubt that the words were spoken distinctly Matthew 3:17, yet some of the people, either from amazement or envy, would suppose that this was a mere natural phenomenon.

An angel spake - It was the opinion of many of the Jews that God did not speak to men except by the ministry of angels, Hebrews 2:2; “The word spoken by angels;” Galatians 3:19; “It was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 29. The people - said that it thundered: others - an angel spake to him. — Bishop Pearce says, Probably there was thunder as well as a voice, as in Exodus 19:16-17, and some persons, who were at a small distance, might hear the thunder without hearing the voice; while others heard the voice too; and these last said, "An angel hath spoken to him."

Wetstein supposes that the voice was in the language then in use among the Jews; which the Greeks, not understanding, took for thunder; the others, the Jews, who did understand it, said it was the voice of an angel. In Revelation 6:1, the voice of one of the living creatures is compared to thunder; and in Revelation 10:3, the voice of an angel is compared to seven thunders. The voice mentioned was probably very loud, which some heard distinctly, others indistinctly; hence the variety of opinion.