USE OF THE WORD SON

1. Used by eastern people to denote "sameness"

a. Gen. 4:20 Jabal was father of such as dwell in tents

b. Gen. 4:21 Jubal was father of such as handle harp/pipe

c. Mk. 3:17 sons of thunder, explosive character

d. Lk. 10:6 son of peace, a peaceful man

e. Lk. 20:34 the sons of this world, worldly minded

f. Jn. 17:12 the son of perdition, wicked man

g. Acts 4:36 son of consolation, helpful, consoling

SAME USAGE HERE IN JOHN 5:18

1. Jews understood this, 10:30-33

2. compare,

Mt. 27:54 = truly this was the son of God

Lk. 23:47; certainly this was a righteous man,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE SAME SAYING BY THE SAME MAN.

3. even so, IN THIS PASSAGE, cp. Isa. 9:6

4. THE TERM SON OF GOD IS USED AS A TITLE, equal to the title of Messiah (Christ)

Mt.16:16 thou art the Christ, the S. of the living God

Mtt.26:63 Tell us whether thou are the C. ,the Son of God

Mk. 14;61 Art thou the C., the S of the Blessed

Jn. 1:27 Thou art the Ch.,the S. of God.

Jn. 1:49; thou art the S of God, thou art King of Israel

Jn. 6:69 thou art the C. the S of the living God.

5. STATEMENTS MADE AT THE CRUCIFIXION:

Mt. 27:40 if thou art the S. of God, come down

Mt. 27:43 for He said, I am the S. of God

Mk. 15:32 Let the Christ, the king of Israel, now come down

Lk. 23:35 if this is the Christ of God.

Lk. 23:37 If thou art the king of the Jews,

Lk. 23:39 art not thou the Christ?

MORE OBSERVATIONS ON HIS SONSHIP

2 Sam. 7:12-16. A dual prophecy of both Solomon and Christ. It is the picture of relationship of Father to Son, of the subordination of the son to the Father. In reference to Christ it speaks of His coming into the world and the role he played of submission to the Father. Part of vs. 14 is quoted in Heb. 1:5 to Show it is fulfilled in Christ.

Heb. 1:5 "I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a son.

NOT ALWAYS A SON. Future tense of verb. Verb is from "eimi, which means TO BE, TO BECOME. This relationship had a beginning.

Phil.2:8 "and being FOUND in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea the death of the cross.

a. "being found, humbled, becoming" are all in the AORIST tense which denotes a time in which all this began. There was a time when Jesus began his servitude; the time was when he came into the world as a man. The aorist tense in this passage is to be compared with the present tense of verse 6 in the word "existing", which denotes a continuous action. If he became a servant when he came into the world, that is when it began, then he wasn't a servant of God before he came into the world. His sonship in this sense had a beginning.