13 And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.
Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.
No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.
(Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth? He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.)
Jesus, being conscious that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,
And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?
Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.
What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had said these words to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God. And they went out, preaching everywhere, the Lord working with them, and giving witness to the word by the signs which came after. So be it.
They are not in heaven, for you to say, Who will go up to heaven for us and give us knowledge of them so that we may do them?
Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.
I came out from the Father and have come into the world: again, I go away from the world and go to the Father. His disciples said, Now you are talking clearly and not in veiled language. Now we are certain that you have knowledge of all things and have no need for anyone to put questions to you: through this we have faith that you came from God.
I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.
Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only he who is from God, he has seen the Father.
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Commentary on John 3 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 3
In this chapter we have,
Jhn 3:1-21
We found, in the close of the foregoing chapter, that few were brought to Christ at Jerusalem; yet here was one, a considerable one. It is worth while to go a great way for the salvation though but of one soul. Observe,
This great truth of the necessity of regeneration being thus solemnly laid down,
Jhn 3:22-36
In these verses we have,
From the certainty of Christ's doctrine, John takes occasion,