SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:11
A lo que era suyo vino, y los suyos no le recibieron.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - John 1:11
Verse 11. He came unto his own] ta idia-to those of his own family, city, country:-and his own people, oi idioi-his own citizens, brethren, subjects. The Septuagint, Josephus, and Arrian, use these words, ta idioi and oi idioi, in the different senses given them above.
Received him not.] Would not acknowledge him as the Messiah, nor believe in him for salvation.
How very similar to this are the words of Creeshna, (an incarnation of the Supreme Being, according to the theology of the ancient Hindoos!) Addressing one of his disciples, he says: "The foolish, being unacquainted with my supreme and divine nature, as Lord of all things, despise me in this human form; trusting to the evil, diabolic, and deceitful principle within them. They are of vain hope, of vain endeavours, of vain wisdom, and void of reason; whilst men of great minds, trusting to their divine natures, discover that I am before all things, and incorruptible, and serve me with their hearts undiverted by other beings." See Bhagvat Geeta, p. 79.
To receive Christ is to acknowledge him as the promised Messiah; to believe in him as the victim that bears away the sin of the world; to obey his Gospel, and to become a partaker of his holiness, without which no man, on the Gospel plan, can ever see God.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. He came unto his own , etc.] Not all the world, who are his own by right of creation; for these, his own, are opposed to the world, and distinguished from them; and his coming to them designs some particular favour, which is not vouchsafed to all: nor yet are the elect of God intended; though they are Christs own, in a very special sense; they are his by his own choice, by his Fathers gift, by his own purchase, and through the conquest of his grace, and are the objects of his special love; and for their sake he came in the flesh, and to them he comes in a spiritual way, and to them will he appear a second time at the last day unto salvation: but they cannot be meant, because when he comes to them they receive him; whereas these did not, as the next clause affirms: but by his own are meant the whole body of the Jewish nation; so called, because they were chosen by the Lord above all people; had distinguishing favours bestowed upon them, as the adoption, the covenants, the promises, the giving of the law, and the service of God; and had the Shekinah, and the symbol of the divine presence in a remarkable manner among them; and the promise of the Messiah was in a particular manner made to them; and indeed, he was to be born of them, so that they were his kindred, his people, and his own nation: and this his coming to them is to be understood not of his incarnation; though when he came in the flesh, as he came of them, so he came to them, particularly being sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and was rejected by them as the Messiah; yet his incarnation is afterwards spoken of in ( John 1:14) as a new and distinct thing from this; and to understand it of some coming of his before his incarnation, best suits with the context, and the design of the evangelist. Now Christ, the word, came to the Jews before his incarnation, not only in types, personal and real, and in promises and prophecies, and in the word and ordinances, but in person; as to Moses in the bush, and gave orders to deliver the children of Israel out of Egypt: he came and redeemed them himself with a mighty hand, and a outstretched arm; in his love and pity he led them through the Red Sea as on dry ground; and through the wilderness in a pillar of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night; and he appeared to them at Mount Sinai, who gave unto them the lively oracles of God: and his own received him not ; they did not believe in him, nor obey his voice; they rebelled against him, and tempted him often, particularly at Massah and Meribah; they provoked trim to anger, and vexed, and grieved his holy Spirit, as they afterwards slighted and despised his Gospel by the prophets. Of this nonreception of the word by the Jews, and their punishment for it, the Targumist on ( Hosea 9:17) thus speaks: my God will remove them far away, because, hyrmyml wlybq al , they receive not his word; and they shall wander among the people.
And so they treated this same Logos, or word of God, when he was made flesh, and dwelt among them. Somewhat remarkable is the following discourse of some Jews among themselves f28 : when the word of God comes, who is his messenger, we shall honour him. Says R. Saul, did not the prophets come, and we slew them, and shed their blood? (compare this with ( Matthew 23:30,31,37).) how therefore now, wrbdm lbqn , shall we receive his word? or wherefore shall we believe? Says R. Samuel, the Levite, to him, because he will heal them, and deliver them from their destructions; and because of these signs we shall believe him, and honour him.
But they did not.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-14 - John the Baptist came to bear witness concerning Jesus. Nothing mor fully shows the darkness of men's minds, than that when the Light ha appeared, there needed a witness to call attention to it. Christ wa the true Light; that great Light which deserves to be called so. By his Spirit and grace he enlightens all that are enlightened to salvation and those that are not enlightened by him, perish in darkness. Chris was in the world when he took our nature upon him, and dwelt among us The Son of the Highest was here in this lower world. He was in the world, but not of it. He came to save a lost world, because it was world of his own making. Yet the world knew him not. When he comes as Judge, the world shall know him. Many say that they are Christ's own yet do not receive him, because they will not part with their sins, no have him to reign over them. All the children of God are born again This new birth is through the word of God as the means, 1Pe 1:23, an by the Spirit of God as the Author. By his Divine presence Chris always was in the world. But now that the fulness of time was come, he was, after another manner, God manifested in the flesh. But observe the beams of his Divine glory, which darted through this veil of flesh. Me discover their weaknesses to those most familiar with them, but it wa not so with Christ; those most intimate with him saw most of his glory Although he was in the form of a servant, as to outward circumstances yet, in respect of graces, his form was like the Son of God His Divin glory appeared in the holiness of his doctrine, and in his miracles. He was full of grace, fully acceptable to his Father, therefore qualifie to plead for us; and full of truth, fully aware of the things he was to reveal.
Greek Textus Receptus
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