John 11:48

Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)

ܘܶܐܢ ܫܳܒ݂ܩܺܝܢ ܚ݈ܢܰܢ ܠܶܗ ܗܳܟ݂ܰܢܳܐ ܟ݁ܽܠܗܽܘܢ ܐ݈ܢܳܫܳܐ ܡܗܰܝܡܢܺܝܢ ܒ݁ܶܗ ܘܳܐܬ݂ܶܝܢ ܪܽܗ݈ܘܡܳܝܶܐ ܫܳܩܠܺܝܢ ܐܰܬ݂ܪܰܢ ܘܥܰܡܰܢ ܀

Bible Verse Review
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we let: Acts 5:28, Acts 5:38-40

all: John 1:7, Luke 8:12, Luke 11:52, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:16

and the: Deuteronomy 28:50-68, Daniel 9:26, Daniel 9:27, Zechariah 13:7, Zechariah 13:8, Zechariah 14:1, Zechariah 14:2, Matthew 21:40-42, Matthew 22:7, Matthew 23:35-38, Matthew 27:25, Luke 19:41-44, Luke 21:20-24, Luke 23:28-31

Reciprocal: Numbers 24:24 - and shall afflict Eber Jeremiah 42:16 - that the sword Ezekiel 11:8 - General Daniel 2:40 - the fourth Matthew 2:3 - he Matthew 21:16 - Hearest Matthew 25:29 - shall be taken Mark 1:37 - All Luke 16:16 - and every Luke 19:39 - rebuke John 3:2 - for John 3:26 - and all John 7:32 - Pharisees heard John 11:50 - General John 12:11 - General Acts 4:2 - grieved Acts 4:16 - What Acts 4:17 - let Acts 5:24 - they Acts 17:8 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If we let him thus alone,.... Going about from place to place, teaching the people, and doing such miracles:

all men will believe on him; the whole nation will receive him as the Messiah, and proclaim him their king, and yield a cheerful obedience to all his commands:

the Romans will come; against us, with their powerful armies; interpreting the setting him up as Messiah, to be an instance of rebellion against Caesar, and his government:

and take away both our place and nation; that is, will destroy the temple, their holy place, the place of their religion and worship; and their city, the place of their habitation, and lay waste their country; and take away from them that little share of power and government they had, and strip them both of their civil and religious privileges: the Persic version renders it, "they will take away our place, and make a decree against our religion".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All men - That is, all men among the Jews. The whole nation.

And the Romans shall come - They were then subject to the Romans - tributary and dependent. Whatever privileges they had they held at the will of the Roman emperor. They believed, or feigned to believe, that Jesus was intending to set up a temporal kingdom. As he claimed to be the Messiah, so they supposed, of course, that he designed to be a temporal prince, and they professed to believe that this claim was, in fact, hostility to the Roman emperor. They supposed that it would involve the nation in war if he was not arrested, and that the effect would be that they would be vanquished and destroyed. It was on this charge that they at last arraigned him before Pilate, Luke 23:2-3.

Will take away - This expression means to destroy, to ruin, to overthrow, Luke 8:12; Acts 6:13-14.

Our place - This probably refers to the temple, Acts 6:13-14. It was called “the place” by way of eminence, as being the chief or principal place on earth - being the seat of the special worship of God. This place was utterly destroyed by the Romans. See the notes at Matthew 24:0.

And nation - The nation or people of the Jews.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 48. All men will believe on him — If we permit him to work but a few more miracles like these two last (the cure of the blind man, and the resurrection of Lazarus) he will be universally acknowledged for the Messiah; the people will proclaim him king; and the Romans, who can suffer no government here but their own, will be so irritated that they will send their armies against us, and destroy our temple, and utterly dissolve our civil and ecclesiastical existence. Thus, under the pretense of the public good, these men of blood hide their hatred against Christ, and resolve to put him to death. To get the people on their side, they must give the alarm of destruction to the nation: if this man be permitted to live, we shall be all destroyed! Their former weapons will not now avail. On the subject of keeping the Sabbath, they had been already confounded; and his last miracles were so incontestable that they could no longer cry out, He is a deceiver.

Both our place and nation. — Literally, this place, τον τοπον: but that the temple only is understood is dear from Acts 6:13-14; Acts 2:0 Macc. 1:14; 2:18; 3:18; 5:16, 17; 10:7; where it is uniformly called the place, or the holy place, because they considered it the most glorious and excellent place in the world. When men act in opposition to God's counsel, the very evils which they expect thereby to avoid will come upon them. They said, If we do not put Jesus to death, the Romans will destroy both our temple and nation. Now, it was because they put him to death that the Romans burnt and razed their temple to the ground, and put a final period to their political existence. See Matthew 22:7; and the notes on chap. 24.