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NASB | Mark 15:5 But Jesus made no further answer; so Pilate was amazed. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 15:5 But Jesus gave no further answer; so Pilate was perplexed. [Is 53:7] |
Subject: What does "remaining in Him" really mean |
Bible Note: Dear NewPilgrim, As our brother Tim has pointed out, context is one of your most powerful allies in developing a sound exegesis. Context of words in phrases, phrases in sentences, sentences in passages, passages in sections, sections in books. Remember, also, to bring along the light of the rest of Scripture in your study. Be encouraged to continue digging. However, as one of my professors once said, after you've sweated through the hard work of a sound exegesis, only then look back at what others have concluded regarding a passage. "Never be so arrogant," he said, "as to imagine that you will come up with something out of Scripture that no one else has ever found in two thousand years of study." God is the great revealer, we simply uncover the truth He has spoken to us all. Here are what a few commentators (in more or less chronological order) have written on 1 John 3:9: "[We conclude] that those in whom sin reigns cannot be reckoned among the members of Christ..." --John Calvin "...does not make it [sin] his trade and business; it is not the constant course of his life; he does not live and walk in sin, or give up himself to it..." --John Gill "This cannot mean that one who is renewed has not physical ability to do wrong, for every moral agent has; nor can it mean that no one who is a true Christian never does, in fact, do wrong in thought, word, or deed, for no one could seriously maintain that: but it must mean that there is somehow a certainty as absolute as if it were physically impossible, that those who are born of God will not be characteristically and habitually sinners." --Albert Barnes "...he who is born of God does not practise sin." --John Darby "The regenerate life is incompatible with sin, and gives the believer a hatred for sin in every shape, and an unceasing desire to resist it... Sin is ever active, but no longer reigns. The normal direction of the believer's energies is against sin..." --Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown "...distinction between individual acts of sin (which a Christian may occasionally commit) and habitual sin as a lifestyle..." --W. Hall Harris III "People who are settled in habitual sin are not the children of God..." --David Guzak There is safety staying within the context of the broad concensus of Christian orthodoxy. It almost always is helping us stay safely within the context of all of Scripture. :-) In Him, Doc |