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John 8:56
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day; and he saw it and was glad.
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day; and he saw it and was glad.
Verse John 8:56. _ABRAHAM REJOICED TO SEE MY DAY_] Or, _he earnestly_ _desired to see my day_; ηγαλλιασατο, from αγαν, _very much_, and αλλομαι, _I leap _- his soul leaped forward in earnest hope and...
YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM - The testimony of Abraham is adduced by Jesus because the Jews considered it to be a signal honor to be his descendants, John 8:39. As they regarded the sayings and deeds of Abrah...
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...
YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM REJOICED TO SEE MY DAY... AND WAS GLAD. Saw it in promise by prophetic vision; whether or not "Abraham was greater" he rejoiced in the hope of the revelation of Christ....
"Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it and was glad." The Jews said to him: "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them: "This is the truth I t...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
REJOICED. leaped for joy. Greek. _agalliao._ Compare John 5:35. TO. in order that (Greek. _hina)_ he might. SEE. App-133. Therefore Abraham must have heard of it from Jehovah, for "faith cometh by h...
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....
_rejoiced to see my day_ Literally, EXULTED _that he might see My day_, the object of his joy being represented as the goal to which his heart is directed. This is a remarkable instance of S. John's p...
Christ first answers the insinuation that He is vain-glorious, implied in the question -whom makest Thou Thyself?" Then He shews that He really is greater than Abraham....
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...
54–56. Christ first answers the insinuation that He is vainglorious, implied in the question ‘whom makest Thou Thyself? Then He shews that He really is greater than Abraham....
Ὁ ΠΑΤῊΡ ὙΜΩ͂Ν. Whom you so confidently claim (John 8:39; John 8:53): _he_ rejoiced in expecting One whom _ye_ scornfully reject. ἨΓΑΛΛΙΆΣΑΤΟ ἽΝΑ ἼΔΗΙ. EXULTED THAT HE MIGHT _see My day;_ the object of...
Ver 52. Then said the Jews to him, Now we know that you have a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. 53. Are you greater than o...
_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...
ΉΓΑΛΛΙΆΣΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΓΑΛΛΙΆΩ (G21) ликовать, радоваться (Morris). Это относится к радости, которую дает спасение. Здесь Авраам предвкушает ее (EDNT). Основанием для этого высказыван...
DISCOURSE: 1657 ABRAHAM’S VIEWS OF CHRIST John 8:56. _Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad_. ONE cannot read any of our Lord’s discourses without seeing the need of...
YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM REJOICED, &C.— When the figurative word _day_ is used not to express the period of any one's existence, but to denote his peculiar office and employment, it must needs signify that...
CHRIST DEFAMED _Text 8:48-59_ 48 The Jews answered and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon? 49 Jesus answered, I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, an...
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...
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM REJOICED TO SEE MY DAY, [ eegalliasato (G21) hina (G2443) idee (G1492)] - 'exulted,' or 'exceedingly rej...
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...
'I _am_ greater than your Father Abraham, for Abraham looked forward with exultation to the manifestation of one greater than himself, one in whom all the nations of the earth should be blessed.' HE...
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...
YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM REJOICED TO SEE MY DAY. — They had asked in scorn if He were greater than their father Abraham (John 8:53)..His words have shown that He was. He now, with the thoughts of John 8:39...
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...
And as regards The connection they claim with Abraham, this reflects discredit on their present attitude towards Jesus; for Ἀβραὰμ ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν, “Abraham in whose parentage you glory,” ἠγαλλιάσατο ἵνα...
_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
THE ETERNAL CHRIST John 8:48-59 It is absolutely true that the Christian disciple does see death as the king of terrors or as a grim monster. Jesus has robbed death of its sting; He has destroyed Him...
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...
(20) Your father Abraham (t) rejoiced to see my (u) day: and he (x) saw [it], and was glad. (20) The power of Christ showed itself through all former ages in the fathers, for they saw in the promises...
Abraham, your father, rejoiced that he might see my day, my entrance into this world, my incarnation, my birth, my manifestation in Israel, my death and passion. (St. Irenæus, Origen, St. Cyril, &c.)...
JESUS PRE-ABRAHAMIC John 8:52-59. _“The Jews said to Him, Now we know that Thou hast a demon.”_ Sharpers, sent out for that specific purpose, hung on His lips, like lightning upon the skirts of the cl...
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_,...
“ _Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; he who glorifies me is my Father, he of whom you say that he is your God;_ 55 _and yet you do not know him, but I know him; and if I say th...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 51-59. 1. In John 8:51 Jesus turns the discourse to the more positive side, and brings out one of the great thoughts presented in this Gospel, namely, tha...
Why do ye not understand my speech; even because ye cannot hear my word. (44) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode...
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...
56._Your father Abraham. _He grants to them, in words only, what he formerly took from them, that _Abraham is their father _But he shows how idle is the objection drawn from the name of _Abraham _“He...
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...
YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM REJOICED TO SEE MY DAY,.... Or "he was desirous to see my day", as the Syriac and Arabic versions rightly render the word; or "very desirous", as the Persic version: and indeed, th...
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw _it_, and was glad. Ver. 56. _Your father Abraham rejoiced to see_] He saw it afar off, and saluted it, ασπασαμενοι, Hebrews 11:13. His good old...
_Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day_ Ηγαλλιασατο ινα ιδη την ημεραν, _exulted with desire, to see my day._ “The words ινα ιδη, _that he might see_, immediately following the verb, show,” as Dr...
REJOICED TO SEE MY DAY; to hear of and obtain clear views of the coming of Christ....
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...
54-59 Christ and all that are his, depend upon God for honour. Men may be able to dispute about God, yet may not know him. Such as know not God, and obey not the gospel of Christ, are put together, 2...
You glory much in this, that you have Abraham to your father. This father of yours foresaw my coming into the world, and my dying upon the cross. He saw it by the eye of faith, in the promise which wa...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians and again, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it, and was glad; for before Abraham was, I am; "[55] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II exis...
John 8:56 Your G5216 father G3962 Abraham G11 rejoiced G21 (G5662) to G2443 see G1492 (G5632) My...
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 CHALLENGE COMES TO ITS CLIMAX BY JESUS REVEALING THAT HE IS THE ‘I AM' (JOHN 8:48). In this final section Jesus deals with their insults by facing them up with the issues of life and death, and t...
“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad'. Abraham had been told by God that ‘by you all the families of the earth will be blessed' and that ‘kings would be born of him'...
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 8:56. TOUR FATHER ABRAHAM EXULTED THAT HE SHOULD SEE MY DAY; AND HE SAW IT AND REJOICED. This translation, though more exact than that of the Authorised Version, does not fully bring out the mean...
REJOICED (ηγαλλιασατο). First aorist middle indicative of αγαλλιαομα, a word of Hellenistic coinage from αγαλλομα, to rejoice.TO SEE (ινα ιδη). Sub-final use of ινα and second aorist active subjun...
John 8:56 Christ's Day, or Christmas Joys I. The text does not tell us that Abraham had any distinct foresight of the manner of Christ's birth. That was a mystery which remained locked up in the secr...
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...
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...
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....
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...
YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM. God made the promise to Abraham (Genesis 12:3; Genesis 18:18; Galatians 3:16). By _faith,_ he looked forward to Gods act in Christ to set men free. MY DAY. This refers to the Firs...
_Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day_ ABRAHAM’S VISION OF CHRIST’S DAY (Christmas day Sermon):--Here is joy, joy at a sight, at the sight of a day, and that day Christ’s, and no day is so pro...
_Abraham is dead and the prophets_ ABRAHAM AND JESUS I. THE GREATNESS OF ABRAHAM: 1. The ancestor of the Jews. “Our father,” said they (John 8:53); “Your father,” conceded Christ (John 8:56). It wa...
_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 8:56 ABRAHAM REJOICED that he would see the day of Christ. He SAW IT AND WAS GLAD. Jesus possibly refers to a consistent pattern of joyful faith in Abraham’s life, rather than one sp...
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...
_Your father Abraham_, &c. He longed for it with exulting mind; "He feared not, but exulted," says S. Augustine. "Believing he exulted with hope, that he might see by understanding." It is a catachres...
_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 Peter 1:10; Galatians 3:7; Genesis 22:18; Hebrews 11:13; Heb
Rejoiced [η γ α λ λ ι α σ α τ ο]. With exultant joy. See on 1 Peter 1:6. To see [ι ν α ι δ η]. The Greek construction is peculiar. Literally, that he should see; i e., in the knowledge or anticipation...
He saw it — By faith in types, figures, and promises; as particularly in Melchisedec; in the appearance of Jehovah to him in the plains of Mamre, Genesis 18:1; and in the promise that in his seed all...
That is, "Abraham having received. promise, that the Messias should come of his seed, he exceedingly rejoiced to see the day of my coming in the flesh, though afar off, with the eye of his faith, and...