Gjoni 11:52

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not: John 1:29, John 12:32, Psalms 22:15, Psalms 22:27, Psalms 72:19, Isaiah 49:6, Luke 2:32, Romans 3:29, 1 John 2:2, Revelation 5:9, Revelation 7:9, Revelation 7:10

gather: John 10:16, Genesis 49:10, Psalms 102:22, Psalms 102:23, Isaiah 11:10-12, Isaiah 49:18, Isaiah 55:5, Isaiah 56:8, Isaiah 60:4, Matthew 25:31-34, Ephesians 1:9, Ephesians 1:10, Ephesians 2:14-22, Colossians 1:20-23

the children: Hosea 1:10, Acts 18:10, Romans 4:17, Romans 8:29, Romans 8:30, Romans 9:25, Romans 9:26, Ephesians 1:5, Ephesians 3:11, 2 Thessalonians 2:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:14

that were: Ezekiel 11:16, Ezekiel 11:17, Ezekiel 34:12, Ephesians 2:14-17, James 1:1, 1 Peter 1:1

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 14:1 - the children Jeremiah 31:10 - He Daniel 9:26 - Messiah Matthew 12:30 - gathereth Matthew 24:31 - gather Mark 13:27 - shall gather Luke 15:8 - and seek Acts 10:11 - and a Acts 13:48 - and as Galatians 3:28 - for 2 Timothy 2:10 - for Hebrews 2:10 - many

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And not for that nation only,.... For though Christ, as prophet, was sent to the Jews only, and was the minister of the circumcision, yet as a priest he did not die for them only, but for the Gentiles also; even for the whole mystical Israel of God all the world over, whether among Jews or Gentiles; see 1 John 2:2.

But that also he should gather together in one, the children of God that were scattered abroad; by which may be meant, not only the elect of God among the Jews, who were scattered amidst the nations of the world, for whom Christ died, and to whom the Gospel was in the first place sent, and who were gathered together into a Gospel church state; see John 7:35; but rather the elect of God among the Gentiles, called "the children of God", in opposition to a notion of the Jews, who took this character to themselves, on account of their national adoption, and denied it to the Gentiles, reckoning them no other than as dogs; and because they were the children of God by special adoption, in divine, predestination, and in the covenant of grace; and were so considered, when given to Christ, who looked upon them as in this relation, when he assumed their nature, and died in their room and stead; and not merely because they would hereafter appear to be the children of God in regeneration, and by faith in Christ Jesus, and have the witnessings of the Spirit that they were so; and much less because they had a fitness and disposition to be the children of God, since they were by nature as others, children of wrath: and these are said to be "scattered abroad", both from God, as they were by the fall, and by their own transgressions; which separated between God and them, and set them at a distance from him; for in their nature head, and nature state, they are afar off from him, and from one another; which may regard not only distance of place, being scattered about in the several parts of the world, but their disagreement in mind and judgment, in religion and manners; every one pursuing his own way, going astray like lost sheep: now Christ died for them, in order to bring them nigh to God, to the one true and living God; and to gather them together under one head, himself, their common head; by whom they were represented in his crucifixion, burial, and resurrection; and to make them one body, and bring them into one fold, into one church state here, and at last to one place, to heaven, there to be for ever with him; and so the Persic version renders it, "that he might gather them into one place": and in this, the red heifer was a type of Christ; whose blood was sprinkled directly before the tabernacle of the congregation, and without the camp; and which was done, as a Jewish writer says q,

"to call to mind the design of the heifer, which was to bring המרוחקים, "those that were afar off", from the camp of the Shekinah, to be near unto it.''

q Abarbinel in Lev. xix. 3, 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Should gather together in one - All his chosen among the Jews and Gentiles. See John 10:16.

The children of God - This is spoken not of those who were then Christians, but of all whom God should bring to him; all who would be, in the mercy of God, called, chosen, sanctified among all nations, John 10:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 52. And not for that nation only, c.] These, and the preceding words in John 11:51, are John's explication of what was prophetic in the words of Caiaphas: as if John had said, He is indeed to die for the sins of the Jewish nation, but not for theirs alone, but for the sins of the whole world: see his own words afterwards, 1 John 2:1-2.

Gather together in one — That he should collect into one body-form one Church out of the Jewish and Gentile believers.

Children of God that were scattered abroad. — Probably John only meant the Jews who were dispersed among all nations since the conquest of Judea by the Romans; and these are called the dispersed, John 7:35, and James 1:1; and it is because he refers to these only, that he terms them here, the children of God, which was an ancient character of the Jewish people: see Deuteronomy 32:5; Isaiah 43:6; Isaiah 45:11; Jeremiah 32:1. Taking his words in this sense, then his meaning is this: that Christ was to die, not only for the then inhabitants of Judea, but for all the Jewish race wheresoever scattered; and that the consequence would be, that they should be all collected from their various dispersions, and made one body. This comports with the predictions of St. Paul: Romans 11:1-32. This probably is the sense of the passage; and though, according to this interpretation, the apostle may seem to confine the benefits of Christ's death to the Jewish people only, yet we find from the passage already quoted from his first epistle, that his views of this subject were afterwards very much extended; and that he saw that Jesus Christ was not only a propitiation for their sins (the Jews) but for the sins of the whole world: see his 1st epistle, chap. 2. ver. 2. 1 John 2:2 All the truths of the Gospel were not revealed at once, even to the apostles themselves.