Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
John 7:17
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine. The
Common Version is ambiguous. The Revised Version is clear: "If any man
willeth to do", etc. The difficulty is in the way of the Jews
recognizing the teaching of Jesus as divine, was that they were not
willing to do God's will. This spirit of disobedience is the source of
most, if not all, skepticism. Unbelief is due, not to the head, but to
the heart. He who in his heart says, "Thy will be done, give me light
and I will walk in it", will find that Christ is just the teacher
demanded by his soul, and that the gospel meets his soul's want. Jesus
will so meet the wants of his soul that he will be satisfied and will
know the doctrine, that it comes from him who made the soul. The great
German poet, Heine, was a scoffer until old and tortured with chronic
disease. Then he said:
``I have discarded my proud philosophy and learned to trust in
the consolations of religion.'
He had no more outward evidence than before, but his heart had changed.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
John 7:17
John 14:20
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