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Yohanes 7:48

Adakah seorang di antara pemimpin-pemimpin yang percaya kepada-Nya, atau seorang di antara orang-orang Farisi?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Pharisees;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Pharisees, the;   Prophecies Respecting Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nicodemus;   Pharisees;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Nicodemus;   Pharisees;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Christianity;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Galilee;   Pharisees;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nicodemus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Scribes;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Death of Christ;   Error;   Nationality;   Pharisees (2);   Popularity ;   Ruler (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ruler;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Adakah seorang di antara pemimpin-pemimpin yang percaya kepada-Nya, atau seorang di antara orang-orang Farisi?
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Adakah seorang jua pun daripada sekalian penghulu atau orang Parisi, yang percaya akan Dia?

Contextual Overview

45 Then came the seruauntes to the hye priestes & pharisees: and they sayde vnto them, why haue ye not brought him? 46 The seruauntes aunswered: Neuer man spake as this man doeth. 47 Then aunswered them the pharisees: Are ye also deceaued? 48 Doth any of the rulers or of the pharisees beleue on hym? 49 But this [common] people which know not the lawe, are cursed. 50 Nicodemus sayth vnto the, he that came to Iesus by nyght, and was one of them: 51 Doth our lawe iudge any man, before it heare hym, and knowe what he hath done? 52 They aunswered, and saide vnto him: Art thou also of Galilee? Search & loke: For out of Galilee aryseth no prophete. 53 And euery man went vnto his owne house.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 7:26, John 7:50, John 12:42, Jeremiah 5:4, Jeremiah 5:5, Matthew 11:25, Acts 6:7, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Corinthians 1:22-28, 1 Corinthians 2:8

Reciprocal: Job 32:9 - Great Proverbs 11:12 - that Mark 8:11 - Pharisees Mark 10:2 - the Pharisees Luke 6:20 - Blessed Luke 11:35 - General Luke 11:45 - thou John 9:34 - and dost John 11:49 - Ye Acts 17:34 - the Areopagite James 2:5 - Hath not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Have any of the rulers,.... In the sanhedrim, or of the synagogues; or the civil magistrates, the noble, rich, and wealthy:

or of the Pharisees, believed on him; men famous for wisdom, learning, and holiness. It must be owned, there were but very few of this sort, and perhaps not an instance of this kind had as yet occurred to them; there was Nicodemus, who is mentioned in the context, who was both a ruler and a Pharisee; and Joseph of Arimathea, a rich counsellor; but they neither of them openly showed themselves to be the disciples of Christ till his death: and besides these, there were some women, as Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, Susanna, and some other women, who ministered to him of their substance; but the far greater part of his followers were poor and illiterate: and this has been the common case of those that have believed in Jesus, for the most part, ever since, and therefore should not be a stumbling to any. God is pleased to hide the great things of the Gospel from the wise and prudent, the rich and noble, and preach and reveal them to the poor and foolish: nor is a doctrine a whit the truer for being espoused by the rich, and wise men of this world, but rather to be suspected on that account.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The rulers - The members of the Sanhedrin, who were supposed to have control over the religious rites and doctrines of the nation.

The Pharisees - The sect possessing wealth, and office, and power. The name Pharisees sometimes denotes those who were high in honor and authority.

Believed on him - Is there any instance in which those who are high in rank or in office have embraced him as the Messiah? This shows the rule by which they judged of religion:

  1. They claimed the right of regulating the doctrines and rites of religion.
  2. They repressed the liberty of private judgment, stifled investigation, assumed that a new doctrine must be heresy, and labored to keep the people within inglorious bondage.
  3. They treated the new doctrine of Jesus with contempt, and thus attempted to put it down, not by argument, but by contempt, and especially because it was embraced by the common people. This is the way in which doctrines contrary to the truth of God have been uniformly supported in the world; this is the way in which new views of truth are met; and this the way in which those in ecclesiastical power often attempt to lord it over God’s heritage, and to repress the investigation of the Bible.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 48. Have any of the rulers - believed on him? — Very few. But is this a proof that he is not of God? No, truly. If he were of the world, the world would love its own. The religion of Christ has been in general rejected by the rulers of this world. A life of mortification, self-denial, and humility, does not comport with the views of those who will have their portion in this life. It has ever been a mark of the truth of God that the great, the mighty, and the wise have in general rejected it. They are too much occupied with this world to attend to the concerns of the next.


 
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