SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:44
¶ Mas Jess clam y dijo: El que cree en mí, no cree en mí, sino en el que me envi;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - John 12:44
Verse 44. Jesus cried and said] This is our Lord's concluding discourse to this wicked people: probably this and the following verses should be understood as a part of the discourse which was left off at the 36th verse. Jesus cried-he spoke these words aloud, and showed his earnest desire for their salvation.
Believeth not on me, (only,) but on him that sent me.] Here he asserts again his indivisible unity with the Father:-he who believes on the Son believes on the Father: he who hath seen the Son hath seen the Father: he who honours the Son honours the Father. Though it was for asserting this (his oneness with God) that they were going to crucify him, yet he retracts nothing of what he had spoken, but strongly reasserts it, in the very jaws of death!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 44. Jesus cried and said , etc.] Upon this occasion, on account of the prevailing hardness and unbelief of the Jewish nation, and the nonconfession of him by those who did believe him to be the Messiah. He cried with a loud voice, that he might be heard, and his audience left inexcusable; it denotes the concern of his mind, the vehemence of his spirit, and that openness and freedom in which he discharged his ministry, by showing the nature, excellency, and usefulness of believing in him, and the dangerous consequences of unbelief: he that believeth on me, believeth not on me ; which is not to be understood simply and absolutely, for this would be a contradiction in terms: they that believe in Christ, do believe in him, and they do right to believe in him; Christ is the object of faith; he is proposed as such in the Gospel; and it is his Fathers will, and his own advice, that his people should believe in him: but then those that truly believe in him, do not believe in him as a mere man, but as God, as the Son of God; and not as separate from, or to the exclusion of his Father: nor do they believe in him as a new, or another God, but as the one God with the Father, and the Spirit; for he and his Father are one: nor do they believe in him only; and so the Arabic version reads; but in God the Father also: nor does their faith rest in him, but it proceeds through him, as the Mediator unto God; (see 1 Peter 1:21). Besides, he is here to be considered in his office capacity, as being sent of God; and he that believes on him as the sent of God, does not so much believe on him, as on the sender of him, as follows: but on him that sent me ; just as whatever honour or dishonour are done to an ambassador, sent by an earthly king to a foreign court, are not so much done to the ambassador that is sent, as to the king that sends him; for what is done to him, is all one as if it was personally done to his prince: so he that despises Christ, despises him that sent him; and he that receives Christ, receives him that sent him; and he that believes on Christ, believes on him that sent him; (see Luke 10:16 Matthew 10:40).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 44-50 - Our Lord publicly proclaimed, that every one who believed on him, a his true disciple, did not believe on him only, but on the Father wh sent him. Beholding in Jesus the glory of the Father, we learn to obey love, and trust in him. By daily looking to Him, who came a Light int the world, we are more and more freed from the darkness of ignorance error, sin, and misery; we learn that the command of God our Saviour in everlasting life. But the same word will seal the condemnation of all who despise it, or neglect it __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
ιησους 2424 N-NSM δε 1161 CONJ εκραξεν 2896 5656 V-AAI-3S και 2532 CONJ ειπεν 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3S ο 3588 T-NSM πιστευων 4100 5723 V-PAP-NSM εις 1519 PREP εμε 1691 P-1AS ου 3756 PRT-N πιστευει 4100 5719 V-PAI-3S εις 1519 PREP εμε 1691 P-1AS αλλ 235 CONJ εις 1519 PREP τον 3588 T-ASM πεμψαντα 3992 5660 V-AAP-ASM με 3165 P-1AS
Vincent's NT Word Studies
44. Cried (ekraxen). This is not meant to relate a reappearance of Jesus in public. The close of His public ministry is noted at ver. 36. It is in continuation of the Evangelist's own remarks, and introduces a summary of Jesus' past teaching to the Jews.Believeth - on Him that sent Me (pisteuei - eiv ton pemyanta me). This is the first and almost the only place in the Gospel where the words believe on are used with reference to the Father. This rendering in v. 24 is an error. See xiv. 1. The phrase is constantly associated with our Lord. At the same time it is to be noted that it contemplates the Father as the source of the special revelation of Christ, and therefore is not absolutely an exception to the habitual usage. The same is true of xiv. 1.
