Johannes 12:37

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Men fastän han hade gjort så många tecken inför dem, trodde de icke på honom.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 1:11, John 11:42, John 15:24, Matthew 11:20, Luke 16:31

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:8 - if they Numbers 14:11 - believe me 2 Chronicles 10:15 - that the Lord Psalms 28:5 - Because Psalms 78:32 - believed Matthew 21:25 - Why Mark 4:12 - That seeing Mark 8:12 - Why Luke 22:67 - If John 3:2 - for John 3:11 - ye John 4:48 - Except John 5:40 - ye will not John 6:30 - see John 6:36 - That John 6:44 - man John 6:65 - that no John 9:18 - General John 9:30 - herein John 10:25 - the works John 10:26 - because John 10:37 - General John 11:46 - General 1 Corinthians 2:14 - receiveth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But though he had done so many miracles before them,.... Openly, and in the presence of them; meaning those miracles which were done at Jerusalem, as those which brought Nicodemus to him, and to an acknowledgment of him as a teacher sent from God; and particularly the cure of the lame man at Bethesda's pool, the giving sight to the man that was born blind, by anointing his eyes with clay, and sending him to wash in the Pool of Siloam, and the raising Lazarus from the dead at Bethany, which was within two miles of Jerusalem, in the presence of many of them who were come there to comfort Martha and Mary. Yet

they believed not on him; the miracles done by Christ before their eyes, which they could not deny, nor disprove, and were so many, and so great, were aggravations of their unbelief; and such indeed is the nature of that sin, and so deeply rooted is it, that the most powerful means, and mighty works, will not bring a person to believe in Christ, without the powerful and efficacious grace of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So many miracles - This does not refer to any miracles performed on this occasion, but to all his miracles performed in view of the nation, in healing the sick, opening the eyes of the blind, raising the dead, etc. John here gives the summary or the result of all his work undeniable proof of his being the Messiah, yet the nation did not believe on him.

Before them - Before the Jewish nation. Not in the presence of the people whom he was then addressing, but before the Jewish people.

They believed not - The Jewish nation did not believe as a nation, but rejected him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 37. Yet they believed not on him — Though the miracles were wrought for this very purpose, that they might believe in Christ, and escape the coming wrath, and every evidence given that Jesus was the Messiah, yet they did not believe; but they were blinded by their passions, and obstinately hardened their hearts against the truth.