Johannes 7:39

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Detta sade han om Anden, vilken de som trodde på honom skulle undfå; ty ande var då ännu icke given, eftersom Jesus ännu icke hade blivit förhärligad.

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this spake: John 14:16, John 14:17, John 14:26, Proverbs 1:23, Isaiah 12:3, Isaiah 32:15, Isaiah 44:3, Joel 2:28, Luke 3:16, Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4-8, Acts 2:4, Acts 2:17, Acts 2:38, Acts 4:31, Romans 8:9, Ephesians 1:13, Ephesians 1:14, Ephesians 4:30

Of: John 7:12, John 1:21, John 1:25, John 6:14, Deuteronomy 18:15-18, Matthew 16:14, Matthew 21:11, Luke 7:16, Acts 3:22, Acts 3:23

for: John 16:7, Psalms 68:18, Isaiah 32:15, Acts 2:17, Acts 2:33, 2 Corinthians 3:8

glorified: John 12:16, John 13:31, John 13:32, John 14:13, John 17:5, Acts 3:13

Reciprocal: Numbers 11:17 - I will take Proverbs 18:4 - words Isaiah 59:21 - My spirit Matthew 11:11 - greater Matthew 12:32 - but John 4:14 - shall be John 8:54 - it is John 14:12 - because John 17:1 - glorify Acts 5:32 - whom Acts 19:2 - We have Acts 26:18 - faith Romans 4:11 - father Romans 8:2 - Spirit Romans 8:11 - dwelleth Galatians 3:14 - might Galatians 4:6 - God 1 John 5:6 - by water and Revelation 22:1 - A pure

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But this spake he of the Spirit,.... These are the words of the evangelist, explaining the figurative expressions of Christ; showing, that by rivers of living water, he meant the Spirit in his gifts and graces; and which is the plain sense of the passages referred to by him, particularly Isaiah 44:3, and which, as before observed, the Jews supposed were intimated by their drawing and pouring water at the feast of tabernacles.

Which they that believe on him should receive; the apostles, and others, that had believed in Christ, and had received the Spirit, as a spirit of regeneration and sanctification; as a spirit of illumination and conversion; as a spirit of faith and adoption; but on the day of Pentecost they were to receive a larger, even an extraordinary measure of his gifts and grace, to qualify them for greater work and service:

for the Holy Ghost was not yet [given]; the word "given" is not in the original text; but is very properly supplied, as it is in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Persic versions. The Arabic version renders it, "for the Holy Ghost was not yet come"; he was; he was in being as a divine person, equal with the Father and Son, so he was from everlasting; and he had been bestowed in his grace upon the Old Testament saints, and rested in his gifts upon the prophets of that dispensation; but, as the Jews themselves confess f,

"after the death of the latter prophets, Haggai, Zachariah, and Malachi, the Holy Ghost removed from Israel.''

And they expressly say, be was not there in the time of the second temple. Maimonides says g,

"they made the Urim and Thummim in the second temple, to complete the eight garments (of the priests) though they did not inquire by them; and why did they not inquire by them? because the Holy Ghost was not there; and every priest that does not speak by the Holy Ghost, and the Shekinah, does not dwell upon him, they do not inquire by him.''

They observe h there were five things in the first temple which were not in the second, and they are these,

"the ark with the mercy seat, and cherubim, the fire (from heaven), and the Shekinah, ורוח הקודש, "and the Holy Ghost", and the Urim and Thummim.''

Now, though he had removed, he was to return again; but as yet the time was not come, at least for the more plentiful donation of him: the reason of which was,

because that Jesus was not yet glorified; he had not as yet gone through his state of humiliation; he had not yet suffered, and died, and rose again, and ascended, and sat down at the right hand of God; for the Holy Spirit was to come upon his departure, and in consequence of his sufferings and death, and being made sin, and a curse for his people; and through his mediation and intercession, and upon his exaltation at the Father's right hand; when being made, and declared Lord and Christ, this should be notified by the effusion of his Spirit; see Acts 2:33.

f T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 9. 2. Sota, fol. 48. 2. & Sanhedrin, fol. 11. 1. g Hilchot Cele Hamikdash, c. 10. sect. 10. Vid. T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 73. 2. h T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 21. 2. Vid. Jarchi & Kimchi in Hagg. i. 8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of the Spirit - Of the Holy Spirit, that should be sent down to attend their preaching and to convert sinners.

For the Holy Ghost was not yet given - Was not given in such full and large measures as should be after Jesus had ascended to heaven. Certain measures of the influences of the Spirit had been always given in the conversion and sanctification of the ancient saints and prophets; but that abundant and full effusion which the apostles were permitted afterward to behold had not yet been given. See Acts 2:0; Acts 10:44-45.

Jesus was not yet glorified - Jesus had not yet ascended to heaven - to the glory and honor that awaited him there. It was a part of the arrangement in the work of redemption that the influences of the Holy Spirit should descend chiefly after the death of Jesus, as that death was the procuring cause of this great blessing. Hence, he said John 16:7, “It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart I will send him unto you.” See also John 7:8-12; John 14:15-16, John 14:26. Compare Ephesians 4:8-11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 39. Was not yet given] δεδομενον, given is added by the Codex Vaticanus, (B.) the Syriac, all the Persic, later Syriac with an asterisk, three copies of the Slavonic, Vulgate, and all the Itala but three; and several of the primitive fathers. The word seems necessary to the completion of the sense.

Certain measures of the Holy Spirit had been vouchsafed from the beginning of the world to believers and unbelievers: but that abundant effusion of his graces spoken of by Joel, Joel 2:28, which peculiarly characterized the Gospel times, was not granted till after the ascension of Christ: 1. Because this Spirit in its plenitude was to come in consequence of his atonement; and therefore could not come till after his crucifixion. 2. It was to supply the place of Christ to his disciples and to all true believers; and therefore it was not necessary till after the removal of his bodily presence from among them. See our Lord's own words, John 14:16-18; John 14:26; John 15:26; John 16:7-15.