has a title to heaven, which death and hell and Satan can- not overthrow. Happy are they that know this truth ! It is an essential part of the good news of the Gospel.
After all, the great point we have to consider is whether we believe. What shall it profit ns that Christ has died for sinners, if we do not believe on Him ? " He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life : and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life ; but the wrath of God abideth on him." (John iii. 36.)
Notes. John YI. 41 — 51.
41. — [The Jews then murmured at him.] The verb is here in the imperfect tense. It seems to mean " the Jews were then mur- muring, or beginning to murmur about Him," It was a mur- muring that went on among themselves concerning our Lord, and was not openly expressed. "At Him," would be more literally rendered " about Him."
I venture to think there is a break, pause, or slight interval implied at this point of the conversation. The speakers called here " the Jews," do not appear to be the same who followed our Lord over the lake after being fed with the loaves and fishes, and began the conversation by saying, " Wlien earnest thou hither ?" (Verse 25.) They would rather appear to be the principal people, or leaders, in the synagogue at Caper- naum. They had probably heard our Lord's M'ords to the people who had followed Him over the lake, and were murmuring at them. — To my own mind it is by no means clear that there was not at this point a change in the pJace where the conversation was carried on. Up to this point it looks as if the conversation was carried on in the open air. At this point our Lord may have gone into the synagogue, and the rulers of it may have taken up the subject and been murmuring about it when He went in. — I throw out this theory with diffidence. It must at least be conceded, that the e:xpressions at verse 25, ''when they had found him at the other side of the sea,. ...when camest thou hither ?" can hardly be supposed to mean that our Lord was then in the synagogue. On the other hand, it is perfectly clear from verse 59, that the latter part of His discourse, at any rale, was spoken " in the synagogue at Capernaum." Whore, then, I ask, does the slight break come in, which is necessary to reconcile these beginning and ending statements ? I reply that it seems to me to come in here, at this very 41st verse. The language, I think, implies a slight pause in time, and a change