Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 8:10
Hath no man condemned thee? — Hath no judicial sentence been passed upon thee?
Hath no man condemned thee? — Hath no judicial sentence been passed upon thee?
JOHN 8:10 VIhsou/j {A} The text was elaborated by adding (in one form or another) a clause referring to Jesus’ looking at the woman....
HATH NO MAN CONDEMNED THEE? - Jesus had directed them, if innocent, to cast a stone, thus to condemn her, or to use the power which he gave them to condemn her. No one of them had done that. They had...
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. ...
PERICOPE ADULTERS. JOHN 7:53 TO JOHN 8:11. JESUS AND THE WOMAN ACCUSED OF SIN. The well-known story of the woman taken in adultery has no claim to be regarded as part of the original text of this gos...
WOMAN, WHERE ARE THINE ACCUSERS? Then he lifted himself up, looked around and saw that his enemies were gone, and then addressed the woman. As Augustine says: "Misery was in the presence of Mercy." ...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
And each of them went to his own house; but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he was again in the Temple precincts, and all the people came to him. He sat down and went on teachi...
SAW. App-133. NONE. Greek. _medeis._ BUT. except. Greek. _plen,_ NO MAN. no one. Greek. _oudeis._ CONDEMNED. App-122....
_none but the woman_ The word for -but" or -except" occurs nowhere in S. John's writings excepting Revelation 2:25; frequently in S. Luke, five times in S. Matthew, five times in S. Paul's Epistles, o...
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...
1–11. The number of various readings in this section is very large, and we have not the data for constructing a satisfactory text....
10. Omit καὶ μηδένα θεασάμενος πλὴν τῆς γυναικός after ἸΗΣΟΥ͂Σ, and ἐκεῖνοι οἱ κατήγοροί σου after ΕἸΣΙΝ. ΓΎΝΑΙ for ἡ γυνή. 10. A gloss, καὶ μηδένα θεασάμενος πλὴν τῆς γυναικός, has been inserted here...
Ver. Jesus went to the mount of Olives. 2. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3. And the Scribes and Pharisees br...
_GO AND SIN NO MORE -- JOHN 8:1-11:_ Jesus spent the night in Mount Olives. Early the next morning the people were waiting for Him in the Temple. He did not disappoint them. He came to the Temple, sat...
ΆΝΑΚΎΨΑΣ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.)_, _см._ John 8:7. ΚΑΤΈΚΡΙΝΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΑΚΡΊΝΩ (G2632) осуждать....
DISCOURSE: 1649 THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY DISMISSED John 8:10. _When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man co...
HATH NO MAN CONDEMNED THEE?— Hath no man _punished thee,_ in casting the first stone at thee? For the critics observe, that the words κρινω and κατακρινω are frequently used in the sense of _chastisin...
See the chapter comments for John 8:1-59....
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 8:1-11 We begin with the customary Analysis:— In this series of expositions of John’s Gospel we have sedulously avoided technical matters, preferring to confine...
When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? WHEN ('AND WHEN') JESUS HAD LIFTED UP HIMSELF, AN...
41 Ever since the days of Moses the nation of Israel has been waiting for the Prophet Who was to be like him, and lead the nation out of worse than Egyptian bondage into the heritage of the kingdom. T...
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...
WHERE ARE THOSE THINE ACCUSERS? — Here again the Cambridge MS. has a shorter reading — “Where are they?” “Hath no man condemned thee?” or, more exactly, _Did no man condemn thee?_ The “man” is in cont...
CHAPTER 17 THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY. “And they went every man unto his own house: but Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the peopl...
ἀνακύψας … Jesus, lifting His head and seeing that the woman was left alone, says to her: Ἡ γυνή … κατέκρινεν; “Woman,” nominative for vocative, as frequently, but see critical note, “where are they?...
THE ACCUSERS SELF-CONDEMNED John 8:1-11 This passage has been the subject of much controversy, but there is no possibility of accounting for it except on the supposition that this incident really to...
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...
(3) When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? (3) Christ would not take upon himself the offic...
CHAPTER 3 THE ADULTEROUS WOMAN John 8:1-11. I merely insert this caption through courtesy to the English reader; but will be excused from the exposition, as this item is entirely absent from the orig...
By the οὐδὲ ἐγώ, _neither do I_, Jesus gives the woman to understand that there was nevertheless one there who, without acting in contradiction to the rule of justice laid down in John 8:7, might real...
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery: and when they had set her in the midst, (4) They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. (5)...
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...
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...
WHEN JESUS HAD LIFT HIMSELF UP,.... From the earth, towards which he stooped, and on which he had been writing: AND SAW NONE BUT THE WOMAN; that is, none of those that had brought her there, and had...
When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? Ver. 10. _Where are those thine accusers?_] She migh...
_When Jesus saw none but the woman_ None of those who had been soliciting his judgment, but only the woman they had brought before him; _he said, Where are those thine accusers?_ Is there no one remai...
SAW NONE; none of her accusers. CONDEMNED THEE; passed upon thee a judicial sentence of condemnation....
WHEN JESUS HAD LIFTED UP HIMSELF, AND SAW NONE BUT THE WOMAN, HE SAID UNTO HER, WOMAN, WHERE ARE THOSE THINE ACCUSERS? HATH NO MAN CONDEMNED THEE?...
The Savior's solution:...
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...
1-11 Christ neither found fault with the law, nor excused the prisoner's guilt; nor did he countenance the pretended zeal of the Pharisees. Those are self-condemned who judge others, and yet do the s...
The close of the former verse told us, that though the scribes and Pharisees were gone, yet the woman was left in the midst, expecting Christ's sentence. Christ knew well enough that the scribes and P...
John 8:10 When G1161 Jesus G2424 up G352 (G5660) and G2532 saw G2300 (G5666) one G3367 but...
‘And Jesus lifted himself up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Does no man condemn you?” Jesus then ‘lifts Himself up' again. It is the same verb but with what a different meaning. This time i...
John 8:10. AND JESUS LIFTED UP HIMSELF AND SAID UNTO HER. WOMAN, WHERE ARE THEY? Did no man condemn thee? The word ‘condemn,' for which it is not possible to substitute another, conveys most imperfect...
The almost unanimous voice of modem criticism pronounces the narrative before us to be no genuine part of the Gospel of John. The section is wanting in the oldest and most trustworthy MSS. of the Gosp...
LIFTED UP HIMSELF (ανακυψας). First aorist active participle of ανακυπτω as in verse John 8:7.WHERE ARE THEY? (Που εισιν;). Jesus had kept on writing on the ground as the accusers had slipped awa...
John 7:53. _And every man went unto his own house_. John 8:1. _Jesus went unto the mount of Olives._ That is, as every man went to his own house to rest, so Jesus found rest in secret prayer on the...
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...
Is there no one left to condemn you? The "case" is withdrawn. No one is left to prove her guilty. [Compare Romans 8:33-35.]...
_And the Scribes and the Pharisees brought unto Him a woman taken in adultery_ THE SCENE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE It is probable that the hilarity and abandonment of the feast, which had grown to be a k...
_When Jesus had lifted up Himself_, &c. Lifting up on her His eyes of gentleness, as He had repulsed His adversaries with the words of righteousness, as saith S. Augustine. He spoke to her, (1.) to sh...
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...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 7:1. For the general exposition of this section see Homiletic Notes, pp. 233–235. John 7:2. EARLY IN THE MORNING (ὄρθρου).—St. John’s usual word is πρωῒ (John 20...
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...
Isaiah 41:11; Isaiah 41:12...
(CF. ROMANS 13:4)— Did Jesus repudiate capital punishment in this text? PROBLEM: Passages like Romans 13:4 present a good case for capital punishment, for the passage says, “for it [the government] do...