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Selected Verse: John 2:25 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Joh 2:25 |
Strong Concordance |
And [2532] [3754] needed [5532] [2192] not [3756] that [2443] any [5100] should testify [3140] of [4012] man [444]: for [1063] he [846] knew [1097] what [5101] was [2258] in [1722] man [444]. |
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King James |
And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
knew what was in man--It is impossible for language more clearly to assert of Christ what in Jer 17:9-10, and elsewhere, is denied of all mere creatures. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Should testify of man - Should give him the character of any man.
He knew what was in man - This he did because he had made all Joh 1:3, and because he was God, Joh 1:1. There can be no higher evidence than this that he was omniscient, and was therefore divine. To search the heart is the prerogative of God alone Jer 17:10; and as Jesus knew what was in "these disciples," and as it is expressly said that he knew what was in man - that is, in "all people" - so it follows that he must be equal with God. As he knows "all," he is acquainted with the false pretentions and professions of hypocrites. None can deceive him. He also knows the wants and desires of all his real friends. He hears their groans, he sees their sighs, he counts their tears, and in the day of need will come to their relief. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
He needed not (οὐ χρείαν εἰχεν)
Literally, he had not need.
Testify (μαρτυρήσῃ)
Rev., better, bear witness. The same word is in Joh 1:7, Joh 1:8, Joh 1:15, Joh 1:32 (see on Joh 1:7).
Of man (περὶ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου)
Better, as Rev., concerning man.
He knew (αὐτὸς ἐγίνωσκεν)
The pronoun is expressed, and with a view to emphasis, as Rev., "He himself knew." The imperfect expresses continuance: He was all along cognizant as the successive cases presented themselves; thus falling in with the next words, "what was in the man," i.e., in each particular man with whom He had to do. No such characteristic as this was attributed to the gods of Paganism. "While, then, the gift of anything like general foreknowledge appears to be withheld from all the deities of invention, that of 'the discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart,' is nowhere found; nor was it believed of any member of the Olympian community, as it was said of One greater than they, 'He knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man,'" (Gladstone, "Homer and the Homeric Age," ii., 366). |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
He - To whom all things are naked, knew what was in man - Namely, a desperately deceitful heart. |
9 The heart [03820] is deceitful [06121] above all things, and desperately wicked [0605]: who can know [03045] it?
10 I the LORD [03068] search [02713] the heart [03820], I try [0974] the reins [03629], even to give [05414] every man [0376] according to his ways [01870], and according to the fruit [06529] of his doings [04611].
10 I the LORD [03068] search [02713] the heart [03820], I try [0974] the reins [03629], even to give [05414] every man [0376] according to his ways [01870], and according to the fruit [06529] of his doings [04611].
1 In [1722] the beginning [746] was [2258] the Word [3056], and [2532] the Word [3056] was [2258] with [4314] God [2316], and [2532] the Word [3056] was [2258] God [2316].
3 All things [3956] were made [1096] by [1223] him [846]; and [2532] without [5565] him [846] was [1096] not [3761] any thing [1520] made [1096] that [3739] was made [1096].
7 The same [3778] came [2064] for [1519] a witness [3141], to [2443] bear witness [3140] of [4012] the Light [5457], that [2443] all [3956] men through [1223] him [846] might believe [4100].
32 And [2532] John [2491] bare record [3140], saying [3004], [3754] I saw [2300] the Spirit [4151] descending [2597] from [1537] heaven [3772] like [5616] a dove [4058], and [2532] it abode [3306] upon [1909] him [846].
15 John [2491] bare witness [3140] of [4012] him [846], and [2532] cried [2896], saying [3004], This [3778] was he [2258] of whom [3739] I spake [2036], He that cometh [2064] after [3694] me [3450] is preferred [1096] before [1715] me [3450]: for [3754] he was [2258] before [4413] me [3450].
8 He was [2258] not [3756] that [1565] Light [5457], but [235] was sent to [2443] bear witness [3140] of [4012] that Light [5457].
7 The same [3778] came [2064] for [1519] a witness [3141], to [2443] bear witness [3140] of [4012] the Light [5457], that [2443] all [3956] men through [1223] him [846] might believe [4100].