Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came [or 'am come' heekoo (G2240 )] from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Verse 42. _IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER, YE WOULD LOVE ME_] I came from God, and it would be absurd to suppose that you would persecute me if you were under the influence of God. The children of the same f...
IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER - If you had the spirit of God, or love to him, or were worthy to be called his children. YE WOULD LOVE ME - Jesus was “the brightness of the Father’s glory and the express ima...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The Woman Taken in Adultery. (John 8:1 .)_ 2. The Light of the World. (John 8:12 .) 3. His Testimony Concerning Himself and the Father. (John 8:13 .) 4. His Solemn Declarations. ...
CONTROVERSY WITH THE JEWS WHO BELIEVED. Many are convinced by this appeal. The following section summarises the teaching by which Jesus tried to bring the more favourably disposed of the Jewish party...
39-43. ABRAHAM IS OUR FATHER. To Christ's allusion to their father they again assert that they are Abraham's offspring. This might be true according to the flesh, but spiritually they had another fat...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
LOVE. Greek _agapao._ App-136. CAME. am here. NEITHER. not even. Greek. _oude._ CAME I. am. come. SENT. Greek. _apostello._ App-174....
Moral proof that God is not their father; if they were God's children they would love His Son. Comp. John 15:23, and -every one that loveth Him that begat loveth Him also that is begotten of Him" (1 J...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
John 8:12 TO JOHN 9:41. Christ the Source of Truth and Light In John 8:12-46 the word -true" occurs six times, the word -truth" seven times....
13–59. A comparison of the discourses in Chapter s 5–8 shews how the conflict increases in intensity. In 5 and 6. Christ proceeds almost without interruption, and the Jews demur rather than contradict...
42. Moral proof that God is _not_ their Father; if He were, they would love His Son. Comp. John 15:23 and ‘Every one that loveth Him that begat loveth Him also that is begotten of Him’ (1 John 5:1). H...
VER 41. THEN SAID THEY TO HIM, WE BE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION; WE HAVE ONE FATHER, EVEN GOD. 42. JESUS SAID TO THEM, IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER YOU WOULD LOVE ME: FOR I PROCEEDED FORTH AND CAME FROM GOD;...
_JESUS AND ABRAHAM -- JOHN 8:39-59:_ Jesus said these people wanted to kill Him for telling them the truth that God had given Him. The Jews claimed God as their father but they refused to obey Him. If...
ΉΓΑΠΆΤΕ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΆΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить. Используется в _conj._, противоречащем факту: "Если бы Бог был вашим Отцом..." (но Он не ваш Отец), ΈΞΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΞΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1831) вых...
DISCOURSE: 1655 LOVE TO CHRIST A TEST OF OUR RELATION TO GOD John 8:42. _Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me_. IF experience did not convince us, we could scarcely believe...
I PROCEEDED FORTH AND CAME FROM GOD;— "I originally proceeded from God the Father as his only-begotten Son, partaker of the same nature with him, and am come into the world immediately from him: I did...
SATAN'S CHILDREN _Text 8:41-47_ 41 Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Fat...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 8:33-59 The passage for our present consideration continues and completes the portion studied in our last chapter. It brings before us Christ as the Light reveal...
12-29 Nothing would so swiftly and surely prove the undoing of an impostor as the claim that he always pleases God. Of all living, only One has been able to stand such a severe test. In the mouth of a...
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES CONTINUED. CHRIST THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD John 7:53 to John 8:11. The woman taken in adultery. All modern critics agree that this section is no original part of the Fourth Gosp...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 8 JESUS FORGIVES A WOMAN 8:1-11 V1 But Jesus walked to the place called the Hill of *Olives. V2 Early next morning, he...
IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER, YE WOULD LOVE ME. — This follows because they would then be in a relationship of spiritual affinity to Him. God’s children would bear the spiritual image of their Father, and...
CHAPTER 19 JESUS REJECTED IN JERUSALEM. “He said therefore again unto them, I go away, and ye shall seek Me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come. The Jews therefore said, Will He...
But this claim Jesus explodes by the same argument: Εἰ ὁ θεὸς … ἀπέστειλε. Were God your Father you would love me, for I am from God. ἐξῆλθον ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ expresses “the proceeding forth from that esse...
_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
THE TEST OF SONSHIP John 8:39-47 Godly ancestors and parents will avail nothing, unless we are animated by their spirit and do their works. There were in the old world two families that ran in paral...
The end of chapter 7 is closely linked with this, in that after declaring "every man went to his own house," the writer said, "But Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives." Here we have the story of a re...
SATANIC PATERNITY OF THE UNREGENERATE John 8:37-47. _“I know that ye are the seed of Abraham; but you seek to kill Me, because My Word has no place in you.”_ How sad the condition of those preachers a...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 30-50. 1. Whether the words of Jesus contained in these verses were spoken on the same day as those which precede (Meyer) or on the following day (Godet)...
4. “I AND YOU”: 8:30-59. Jesus, in His second discourse (John 8:12-20) attributed to Himself two modes of teaching: _testimony_, by which He reveals His origin, His mission, His work, and _judgment_,...
VV. 41B-43. “ _They said therefore to him: We are not children born in fornication; we have only one father, God._ 42. _Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me; for I came for...
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed: (32) And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (33) They answered...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
42._If God were your Father, you would love me. _Christ’s argument is this: “Whoever is a child of God will acknowledge his first-born Son; but you hate me, and therefore you have no reason to boast,...
In chapter 8, as we have said, the word of Jesus is rejected; and, in chapter 9, His works. But there is much more than that. The personal glories of chapter 1 are reproduced and developed in all thes...
JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER,.... By adoption; and this was discovered by the grace of regeneration; or in other words, if they had been born of God, YE WOULD LOVE ME; for in regener...
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Ver. 42. _If God were your Father_] So that there i...
_Ye do the deeds of your father_ By your deeds ye show whose children ye are. _They said, We be not born of fornication_ We are not bastard Jews, a mixed, spurious blood, descended from Gentile idolat...
JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER, YE WOULD LOVE ME; FOR I PROCEEDED FORTH AND CAME FROM GOD; NEITHER CAME I OF MYSELF, BUT HE SENT ME....
The true ancestry of the Jews:...
A WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY (vs.1-11) While others went to their homes, the Lord spent the night in the mount of Olives, away from all the words and thoughts of men, in the calm of His Father's prese...
41-47 Satan prompts men to excesses by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into the mind tends to ruin men's souls. He is the great promoter of falsehood of every kind. He is...
This agreeth with what we have 1 JOHN 5:1, _Every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him._ But here our Saviour rather seemeth to speak of his proceeding forth and com...
John 8:42 Jesus G2424 G3767 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 If G1487 God G2316 were G2258 (G5
‘Jesus said to them, ‘If God were your Father you would love me, for I have come forth and am come from God, and I did not come of my own accord, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I am sa...
CHAPTER 8 JESUS - THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD AND THE ‘I AM' (JOHN 8:12). In this chapter Jesus is revealed as ‘the Light of the World'. This is a reminder of the one spoken of in the words of Isaiah, ‘the...
THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL (JOHN 8:31). Note how the argument is presented in stages as the case builds up against he Scribes and Pharisees. It had begun with the revelation...
The feast of Tabernacles is closed, and with it the great illumination of the temple-courts, of which the Jews were wont to boast in lofty terms. Starting from this, and from the fact that He is the t...
John 8:42. JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER, YE WOULD LOVE ME: FOR FROM GOD I CAME FORTH, AND AM HERE, FOR ALSO I HAVE NOT COME OF MYSELF, BUT HE SENT ME. Again Jesus applies the same pri...
YE WOULD LOVE ME (ηγαπατε αν εμε). Conclusion of second-class condition with distinct implication that their failure to love Jesus is proof that God is not their Father (protasis).FOR I CAME FORTH...
We will read, from the Revised Version, two passages which record attempts made to kill our Lord before his time had come. You will see, from the sermon, why we read them. (See Luke 4:16) John 8:37....
John 8:31. _Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;_ For there were many, in Christ's day, coming to him for a while, and then...
Christ thus spake to his adversaries. John 8:29. _And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone: for I do always those things that please him._ Brethren, what Christ could say, I...
John 8:28. _Then said Jesus unto them;_ That is, to the Jews who were questioning and opposing him,- John 8:28. _When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do...
CONTENTS: The woman taken in adultery. Discourse after the feast on Jesus as Light of the world. Satan, the original liar and murderer, and the Satanic brotherhood. CHARACTERS: Jesus, adulterous woma...
John 8:1. _Jesus went to the mount of Olives,_ where it is probable he slept in some booth in the gardens; and returned early to the temple, to preach to the people, before the commencement of public...
IF GOD REALLY WERE YOUR FATHER. The fact they hated the Son proved they were not God's children. Jesus bears down hard on them, because he wishes to save them from God's wrath. It isn't "make believe,...
_Then said Jesus unto those Jews which believed on Him._ A GLORIOUS LIBERATOR I. FREEDOM PROFFERED. 1. Sin makes bondage (John 8:34; Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13;...
_I speak that which I have seen with My Father; and ye do that which ye have seen with your Father_ THE MARKS OF DIVINE AND DIABOLIC RELATIONSHIP Christ had admitted (John 8:37) that the Jews were t...
VER. 37.. _know_, &c. By nature ye are Abraham's children, but in your deeds ye are degenerate. Your descent from Abraham will not therefore profit you. It will increase your damnation, for he will sa...
_Jesus said,_ &c. Put syllogistically, our Lord's argument runs this, "He who loves God, loves also the Son of God. But ye do not love Me, who am the Son of God. Therefore ye love not God. Just as the...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 8:13. They forgot His vindication of Himself (John 5:31). John 8:14. EVEN IF I BEAR RECORD, ETC.—Although He was content to let the Father witness of Him, still...
EXPOSITION Verses 7:53-8:11 (8) _The pericope adulterae. _(A)_ Excursus on the genuineness of _John 7:53-43__John 7:53-43. It is our duty to examine the various grounds on which this passage has been...
Now Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again to the temple (John 8:1-2), Now the feast is over, but Jesus is returning to the temple on the next day. and all of th...
1 Corinthians 16:22; 1 John 4:10; 1 John 4:14; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:1;
I proceeded forth - from God [ε κ τ ο υ θ ε ο υ ε ξ η λ θ ο ν]. Rev., came forth. The phrase occurs only here and in John 16:28. Exelqein is found in John 13:3; John 16:30, and emphasizes the idea of...
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD John 8:12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Jesus Christ the Life, was the Light. When we study-John 1:1, we think of Christ in the beginning as the Word, creating by His command all thin...
I proceeded forth — As God, and come — As Christ....