John 1:11
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
John 1:11 in other translations
| BSB | He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. |
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| WEB | He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him. |
| ASV | He came unto his own, and they that were his own received him not. |
| YLT | to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him; |
| DARBY | He came to his own, and his own received him not; |
| BBE | He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts. |
| Webster | He came to his own, and his own received him not. |
What does John 1:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on John 1:10-13
10-13. He was in the world, &c.--The language here is nearly as wonderful as the thought. Observe its compact simplicity, its sonorousness--"the world" resounding in each of its three members--and the enigmatic form in which it is couched, startling the reader and setting his ingenuity a-working to solve the stupendous enigma of Christ ignored in His own world. "The world," in the first two clauses, plainly means…
Barnes' Notes
His own. His own people. There is a distinction here in the original words which is not preserved in the translation. It may be thus expressed: "He came to his own land and his own people received him not." They were his people, because God had chosen them to be his above all other nations; had given to them his laws; and had signally protected and favoured them, De 7:6, 14:2.
Received him not. Did not acknowledge him to be the Messiah. They rejected him and put him to death, agreeably to the prophecy, Isa 53:3,4. From this we learn,
1st. That it is reasonable to expect that those who have been peculiarly favoured should welcome the message of God. God had a right to expect, after all that had been done for the Jews, that they would receive the message of eternal life. So he has a right to expect that we should embrace him and be saved. Yet
2nd. It is not the abundance of mercies that incline men to seek God. The Jews had been signally favoured, but they rejected him. So, many in Christian lands live and die rejecting the Lord Jesus.
3rd. Men are alike in every age. All would reject the Saviour if left to themselves. All men are by nature wicked. There is no more certain and universal proof of this than the universal rejection of the Lord Jesus.
(o) "He came unto his own" Acts 3:26, 13:46
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on John 1:6-14
John the Baptist came to bear witness concerning Jesus. Nothing more fully shows the darkness of men's minds, than that when the Light had appeared, there needed a witness to call attention to it. Christ was the true Light; that great Light which deserves to be called so. By his Spirit and grace he enlightens all that are enlightened to salvation; and those that are not enlightened by him, perish in darkness. Christ…
John 1:11 in the original Greek
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Cross references for John 1:11
- Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
- Isaiah 53:2-3
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
- John 3:32
And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
- Acts 7:51-52
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
- Luke 20:13-15
Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him. But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
- Matthew 15:24
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
- Acts 3:25-26
Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
- Romans 15:8
Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
- Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
- Romans 9:5
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
- Galatians 4:4
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
- Acts 13:26
Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
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Context
- John 1:10
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
- John 1:11
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
- John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
John 1:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | A lo suyo vino, y los suyos no le recibieron. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il vint chez soi; et les siens ne l’ont pas reçu. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Er kam in das Seinige, und die Seinigen nahmen ihn nicht an; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | In propria venit, et sui eum non receperunt. |