and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.John 11:52 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleAnd not for that nation only, etc. - These, and the preceding words in John 11:51, are John's explication of what was prophetic in the words of Caiaphas: as if John had said, He is indeed to die for the sins of the Jewish nation, but not for theirs alone, but for the sins of the whole world: see his own words afterwards, 1 John 2:1, 1 John 2:2.
Gather together in one - That he should collect into one body; - form one Church out of the Jewish and Gentile believers.
Children of God that were scattered abroad - Probably John only meant the Jews who were dispersed among all nations since the conquest of Judea by the Romans; and these are called the dispersed, John 7:35, and James 1:1; and it is because he refers to these only, that he terms them here, the children of God, which was an ancient character of the Jewish people: see Deuteronomy 32:5; Isaiah 43:6; Isaiah 45:11; Jeremiah 32:1. Taking his words in this sense, then his meaning is this: that Christ was to die, not only for the then inhabitants of Judea, but for all the Jewish race wheresoever scattered; and that the consequence would be, that they should be all collected from their various dispersions, and made one body. This comports with the predictions of St. Paul: Romans 11:1-32. This probably is the sense of the passage; and though, according to this interpretation, the apostle may seem to confine the benefits of Christ's death to the Jewish people only, yet we find from the passage already quoted from his first epistle, that his views of this subject were afterwards very much extended; and that he saw that Jesus Christ was not only a propitiation for their sins (the Jews) but for the sins of the whole world: see his 1st epistle, 1 John 2:2. All the truths of the Gospel were not revealed at once, even to the apostles themselves.
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John 1:29 The next day John sees Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.
John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to me.
Psalm 22:15,27 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue sticks to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death...
Psalm 72:19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
Isaiah 49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel...
Luke 2:32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.
Romans 3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for you were slain...
Revelation 7:9,10 After this I beheld, and, see, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds...
gather.
John 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold...
Genesis 49:10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come...
Psalm 102:22,23 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD...
Isaiah 11:10-12 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek...
Isaiah 49:18 Lift up your eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, said the LORD...
Isaiah 55:5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you know not, and nations that knew not you shall run to you because of the LORD your God...
Isaiah 56:8 The Lord GOD, which gathers the outcasts of Israel said, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered to him.
Isaiah 60:4 Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to you: your sons shall come from far...
Matthew 25:31-34 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory...
Ephesians 1:9,10 Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself...
Ephesians 2:14-22 For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us...
Colossians 1:20-23 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things to himself; by him, I say...
the children.
Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered...
Acts 18:10 For I am with you, and no man shall set on you to hurt you: for I have much people in this city.
Romans 4:17 (As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who vivifies the dead...
Romans 8:29,30 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son...
Romans 9:25,26 As he said also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved...
Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Ephesians 3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
2 Thessalonians 2:13,14 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord...
that were.
Ezekiel 11:16,17 Therefore say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen...
Ezekiel 34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep...
Ephesians 2:14-17 For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us...
James 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
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