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Verse 41. _YE DO THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER._] You have certainly
another father than Abraham-one who has instilled his own malignant
nature into you; and, as ye seek to murder me for telling you the
tr...
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THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER - See John 8:38. Jesus repeats the charge,
and yet repeats it as if unwilling to name Satan as their father. He
chose that they should infer whom he meant, rather than bring a...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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a "I know that you are the descendants of Abraham, but you are trying
to find a way to kill me, because there is no room in you for my word.
I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father. So...
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WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
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DO. are doing.
DEEDS. works, as in John 8:39.
BE NOT BORN. have not been begotten (see Matthew 1:2)....
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_Ye do the deeds of your father_ Better, _Ye_ ARE DOING _the_ WORKS
_of your father_. The word here rendered -deeds" is the same as that
rendered -works" in John 8:39. -Ye" is emphatic, in contrast to...
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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....
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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...
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ΟΥ̓Κ ἘΓΕΝΝΉΘΗΜΕΝ (BD1) for οὐ
γεγεννήμεθα (CD2).
41. ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ Π. Τ. ἘΡ. _Ye_ ARE DOING _the_ WORKS _of your
father_: ὑμεῖς in emphatic contrast to Ἀβραάμ. This
shews them that He means spiritual not li...
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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...
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Ver 37. I know that you are Abraham's seed; but you seek to kill me,
because my word has no place in you. 38. I speak that which I have
seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with yo...
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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;...
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_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...
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ΠΟΡΝΕΊΑΣ (G4202) _gen. sing._ разврат,
незаконные сексуальные отношения,
ΓΕΓΕΝΝΉΜΕΘΑ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΓΕΝΝΆΩ (G1080)
вынашивать; _pass._ рождаться. _Perf._
подчеркивает их длительное
существован...
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WE BE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION, &C.— The Jews, it seems, perceived at
length that Jesus talked not so much of natural, as of spiritual
bondage; and replied, "In that respect undoubtedly we are the chil...
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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...
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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...
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Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born
of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
YE DO THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER. THEN SAID THEY TO HIM, WE BE NOT BORN
OF FORNICA...
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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...
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8:41 do (b-2) _ poieo_ ; usually 'practise' (see ch. 5.29), but it
hardly suits here or in vers. 39,40; still it refers to habitually or
characteristically doing, not a mere act....
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FORNICATION] i.e. impure or superstitious worship, as often in the OT.
The Jews claim to be the true spiritual, as well as the natural,
descendants of Abraham. Inheriting his covenant and faith, they...
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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...
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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...
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YE DO THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER. — It is better to read _works_
rather than “deeds,” as in John 8:39. They did not the works of
Abraham. They did the works of that father, who is now more clearly
point...
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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...
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ὑμεῖς … ὑμῶν. You do not the works of Abraham: you do
the works of your father. And yet (John 8:37) He had acknowledged them
to be the children of Abraham. The only possible conclusion was that
beside...
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_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“ _They answered and said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said
to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of
Abraham._ 40. _But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told yo...
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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_,...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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41._We were not born of fornication. _They claim no more for
themselves than they did formerly, for it was the same thing with them
to be Abraham’s children and to be God’s children. But they erred
gr...
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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...
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YE DO THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER,.... Not Abraham, but the devil.
THEN SAID THEY UNTO HIM, WE BE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION: meaning either
literally, that they were not a brood of bastards, children of
w...
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Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born
of fornication; we have one Father, _even_ God.
Ver. 41. _We have one Father, even God_] Yet God is not in their
heads, Psalms 10...
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_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...
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WE BE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION; perceiving that Jesus uses the word
father in a spiritual sense, they reply that they are no spurious race
sprung from idolaters, but are the true children of God, since...
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YE DO THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER. THEN SAID THEY TO HIM, WE BE NOT BORN
OF FORNICATION; WE HAVE ONE FATHER, EVEN GOD.
Whether the Jews would not or could not understand the words of Jesus
is not apparen...
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The difference between earthly and spiritual parenthood:...
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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...
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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...
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YE DO THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER; you imitate him who is indeed your
father; by whom our Saviour (as we shall hear more afterwards) meaneth
the devil. This they fume at, and tell him they were not BORN...
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A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity
d, and spoke of His divinity alone, which is not of the world: so that
in proportion as they had inclined to believe Him to be only man, in
that proportio...
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John 8:41 You G5210 do G4160 (G5719) deeds G2041 your G5216 father
G3962 Then G3767 said G2036 ...
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“You do the works of your father.”
He repeated His enigmatic statement. ‘You (Judaisers) are doing just
what your father does.' They could now hardly fail to realise that
there was an unpleasant impl...
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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...
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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...
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John 8:41. YE DO THE WORKS OF YOUR FATHER. Yet the principle of John
8:39 cannot but be true: certainly they are doing the works _of their
father._
THEY SAID TO HIM, WE WERE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION;...
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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...
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YE DO THE WORKS OF YOUR FATHER
(υμεις ποιειτε τα εργα του πατρος
υμων). Who is not Abraham and not God as Jesus plainly
indicates.WE WERE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION
(ημεις εκ πορνειας εγεννηθημεν). F...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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YOU ARE ONLY DOING WHAT YOUR FATHER DID. They were _spiritually_ the
Devil's children. WE ARE HIS TRUE SONS. They claim to be true sons of
the living God. [Some versions translate this: "We _were not...
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_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;...
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_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...
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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...
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_Ye do the works of your father._ He persists in saying that they were
not Abraham's children, but does not say whose children they were.
_Then said they unto Him, We be not born of fornication,_ &c....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 14:1; Exodus 4:22; Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 16:21;...
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Ye do. Or, are doing.
Fornication [π ο ρ ν ε ι α ς]. From pernhmi, to sell....
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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...
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Ye do the deeds of your father — He is not named yet. But when they
presumed to call God their Father, then he is expressly called the
devil, John 8:44....
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In the former verses the Jews made their boast that they were the
children of Abraham: in these that they are the children of God. WE
HAVE ONE FATHER, EVEN GOD. This our Saviour disproves, telling the...