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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;
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, If ye continue in My Word, then are ye My disciples indeed;
Verse 31. _IF YE CONTINUE IN MY WORD_] Or, _in this doctrine of_ _mine_. It is not enough to _receive_ God's truth-we must _retain_ and _walk_ in it. And it is only when we receive the truth, love it,...
IF YE CONTINUE IN MY WORD - If you continue to obey my commandments and to receive my doctrines. THEN ARE YE ... - This is the true test of Christian character. John 14:21; “he that hath my commandmen...
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...
JESUS AND ABRAHAM (JOHN 8:31-59) 31. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. The words spoken by the Savior in the preceding discourse convinced many of his hearers. They "believe...
So Jesus said to the Jews who had come to believe in him: "If you remain in my word, you are truly my disciples: and you will know the truth: and the truth will make you free." Few New Testament pass...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
SAID. spake, as in John 8:27; John 8:28. TO. Greek _pros,_ App-104. BELIEVED ON. had believed. App-160. Thus distinguishing these Jews from the true believers of John 8:30. Note the emphatic word "y...
_Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him_ Better, _Jesus said_, THEREFORE, _to the Jews who_ HAD BELIEVED HIM. There is a change in the expression respecting their belief. In John 8:30 S....
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....
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...
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...
31. Besides the ‘many’ who had full faith in Him there were some of His opponents disposed to believe His statements. Their faith, poor as it proves, is better than that of the many in John 2:23; beli...
31. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed in him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed; 32. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33. They ans...
_JESUS TALKED ABOUT THE FATHER AND HIS TRUTH -- JOHN 8:21-38:_ Jesus told the people that He was going away and that they could not go where He was going. The reason that it was impossible for them to...
ΠΕΠΙΣΤΕΥΚΌΤΑΣ _perf. act. part. (adj.)_, _см._ John 8:24. _Perf._ указывает на длительное действие в прошлом. Возможно, ссылка на тех, кто открыто заявил о своей вере (Morris; но _см._ также Schnacken...
IF YE CONTINUE IN MY WORD, &C.— "If you persevere in the belief and practice of my word, you are really my _disciples,_ and have a just title to that honourable appellation. Moreover, you shall be ful...
TRUTH BRINGS FREEDOM _Text 8:31-36_ 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples; 32 and ye shall know the truth, and the tr...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 8:12-32 The following is a Summary of the passage which is to be before us:— The first division of John 8 forms a most striking and suitable introduction to the...
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; THEN SAID JESUS TO THOSE JEWS WHICH BELIEVED ON HIM, IF YE CONTINUE IN MY WORD, THE...
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...
BELIEVED ON HIM] RV 'believed him.' They had believed His statement (John 8:24) that He was the Messiah, but they had not believed 'on' Him with religious faith as the Light and Life of men. 31, 32. C...
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...
THEN SAID JESUS TO THOSE JEWS WHICH BELIEVED ON HIM. — Better, _to those Jews who had believed Him._ The act of faith is mentioned in the previous verse. They are here placed among the believers, with...
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...
_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
To those who have just been described as believing on Him Jesus went on to say, Ἐὰν ὑμεῖς … ὑμᾶς. “If you” ὑμεῖς emphasised in distinction from those who had not believed “abide in my word” not conten...
THE SOURCE OF TRUE LIBERTY John 8:31-38 Sin is not a necessary part of our being. _The servant abideth not in the house for ever._ Your child is an integral part of the household; he has become one w...
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...
(12) Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, [then] are ye my disciples indeed; (12) The true disciples of Christ continue in his doctrine, that profiting more...
If you persevere in the true faith, and in the observance of my words, you shall be my disciples indeed. It is not sufficient to believe; you must likewise do what my words command you to do: nor will...
DEGREES OF FAITH John 8:30-32. _“He speaking these words, many believed on Him. Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed on Him, If you may abide in My Word you are truly My disciples; you shall k...
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)...
“ _As Jesus spoke thus, many believed on him._ 31. _Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had become believers on him: If you abide in my word, you shall be really my disciples_, 32 _and you shall kn...
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_,...
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...
_DISCIPLESHIP_ ‘Then are ye My disciples indeed.’ John 8:31 It was in the early days of the Church that ‘the disciples were called Christians’ (Acts 11:26); but in these later days there is much ne...
31._If you continue in my word. _Here Christ warns them, in the first place, that it is not enough for any one to have begun well, if their progress to the end do not correspond to it; and for this re...
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...
THEN SAID JESUS TO THOSE JEWS THAT BELIEVED ON HIM,.... For he knew instantly who they were, and when they believed on him; and therefore he immediately turned himself to them, and thus addressed them...
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, _then_ are ye my disciples indeed; Ver. 31. _If ye continue in my word_] _Non quaeruntur in Christianis initia, sed fin...
_As he spake these words, many believed on him_ Believed that he was the Messiah, and were strongly inclined to follow him as such. Some have supposed that the ambiguity of the expression, in John 8:2...
CONTINUE IN MY WORD; continue to believe my declarations and obey my commands. DISCIPLES INDEED; true disciples. The only sure test of love to Christ is continued belief of his word and obedience to...
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...
30-36 Such power attended our Lord's words, that many were convinced, and professed to believe in him. He encouraged them to attend his teaching, rely on his promises, and obey his commands, notwiths...
BELIEVED ON HIM, in the sense before expressed. Our Saviour well enough saw their hearts, and in what manner they believed, and what sort of disciples they were, viz. only nominal: they have the name...
Cyprian Treatise IX On the Advantage of Patience and again, "If ye continue," saith He, "in my word, ye shall be truly my disciples; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."[2...
John 8:31 Then G3767 Jesus G2424 said G3004 (G5707) to G4314 Jews G2453 who G3588 believed G4100 ...
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...
‘Jesus therefore said to those Judaisers who had believed in him, “If you dwell in my word then are you my disciples indeed, and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free”.' Jesus then...
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...
John 8:31. JESUS SAID THEREFORE TO THE JEWS WHICH HAD BELIEVED HIM. The word ‘therefore' closely joins this section with the last. Are we then to regard the Jews of this verse as included in the ‘many...
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...
WHICH HAD BELIEVED HIM (τους πεπιστευκοτας αυτω). Articular perfect active participle of πιστευω with dative αυτω (trusted him) rather than εις αυτον (on him) in verse John 8:30. They believed him ...
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...
John 8:12. _Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. The Pharisees_ These wasps were a...
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...
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...
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 YOU OBEY MY TEACHING. Following Jesus is an "either/or" proposition. The _test_ of being a disciple of Jesus, is in obeying his teaching. "The Jews" would include some of the Jewish authorities, an...
_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;...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 8:31 To ABIDE IN Jesus’ word means to continue believing what Jesus has said and to continue obeying him (see note on 15:4; also John
1-59 CHAPTER 8 VER. 1. _But Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives._ On the last day of the Feast Jesus had taught in the temple, and confuted the Pharisees, while they, after their wont, returned home t...
_Then said Jesus_, &c. He wished to confirm them in the faith they had accepted. If ye are so faithful and constant as to follow Me through persecutions and crosses, even to heaven itself, ye will be...
_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 John 2:19; 1 John 2:24; 1 Samuel 12:14; 1 Timothy 2:15; 1 Timothy
Believed on Him [π ε π ι σ τ ε υ κ ο τ α ς α υ τ ω]. Note the different phrase, distinguishing the Jews from the mixed company in ver. 30. Rev., rightly, believed Him. If ye continue [ε α ν υ μ ε ι ς...
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...