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For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
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The Foundation of Love
Commentators unanimously highlight that the basis for Jesus's authority is the profound, unique love between the Father and the Son. This love signifies a perfect unity of essence and purpose. The Father 'shows' the Son everything not because the Son is ignorant, but as an expression of their complete partnership, where the Father communicates His will and power to the Son (Barnes, Calvin, Gill).
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Father loves the Son. This authority he traces to the love which the Father has for him—that peculiar, ineffable, infinite love which …
Loveth (φιλε). In 3:35 we have αγαπα from αγαπαω, evidently one verb expressing as noble a love as the other. Sometimes a distinct…
19th Century
Anglican
For the Father loveth the Son. — Do people deny His divinity? God is His Father. There is, therefore, oneness of essence.…
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Baptist
The Son, as well as the Father, is the Quickener of the dead. The Son is also the Judge of all men.
The Son is loved by the Father. Their relationship is that of a Father and a Son who are united by love. The Father has revealed to the Son the pur…
16th Century
Protestant
For the Father loveth the Son. Everybody sees how harsh and far-fetched is the exposition of this passage which is given by the Fathers. “…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the Father loveth the Son As being his Son, his image, the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his…
The divine power of the miracle proved Jesus to be the Son of God, and he declared that he worked with, and like his Father, as he saw fit. These a…
13th Century
Catholic
Here we have Christ’s teaching on his life-giving power.
First, his teaching is presented.
Second, it is confirmed, at …
