Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 8:28
When ye shall have lifted up — On the cross, ye shall know — And so many of them did, that I AM — God over all; and that I do nothing of myself — Being one with the Father.
When ye shall have lifted up — On the cross, ye shall know — And so many of them did, that I AM — God over all; and that I do nothing of myself — Being one with the Father.
Verse 28. _WHEN YE HAVE LIFTED UP_] When ye have crucified me, and thus filled up the measure of your iniquities, ye shall know that I am the _Christ_, by the signs that shall follow; and ye shall kno...
WHEN YE HAVE LIFTED UP - When you have crucified. See John 3:14 note; also John 12:32 note. THE SON OF MAN - See the notes at Matthew 8:19....
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. ...
WARNINGS OF COMING DOOM. But He knows that in the end the rulers must have their way. He tells the Pharisees that His time is short, and that they will need Him when it is too late. The Jews are scorn...
WHEN YE HAVE LIFTED UP THE SON OF MAN, THEN SHALL YE KNOW THAT. AM. Though his Jewish hearers did not understand the import of his words, they are clear to us. The "lifting up" always points to the cr...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
So he said to them again: "I am going away, and you will search for me, and you will die in your sin. You cannot come where I am going." So the Jews said: "Surely he is not going to kill himself, beca...
WHEN... THEN. Revealing that, after that, men would believe in the truth of His Deity, HAVE. may, or shall have, LIFTED UP. Compare John 3:14; John 12:34. SON OF MAN. App-98. KNOW. App-132., as in...
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....
_Then said Jesus unto them_ Better, as so often (see on John 8:21), THEREFORE _said Jesus_, i.e. in consequence of their gross want of perception. -Unto them" is of doubtful authority. _When ye have l...
ΕἾΠΕΝ ΟΥ̓͂Ν Ὁ Ἰ. _Jesus_ THEREFORE _said_; because of their gross dulness. ὙΨΏΣΗΤΕ. On the Cross: see on John 3:14 and John 12:32. The Crucifixion was the act of the Jews, as S. Peter tells them (Acts...
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...
VER 28. THEN SAID JESUS TO THEM, WHEN YOU HAVE LIFTED UP THE SON OF MAN, THEN SHALL YOU KNOW THAT I AM HE, AND THAT I DO NOTHING OF MYSELF; BUT AS MY FATHER HAS TAUGHT ME, I SPEAK THESE THINGS. 29. AN...
_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...
ΎΨΏΣΗΤΕ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΎΨΌΩ (G5312) возносить. Ссылка на распятие и вознесение, так же как и на спасение (Barrett; TDNT). _Conj._ с ΌΤΑΝ (G3752) в indef. _temp. прид._ ΓΝΏΣΕΣΘΕ _fut. ind. med. ...
WHEN YE HAVE LIFTED UP THE SON OF MAN,— "When you have crucified me, you shall know both who I am, and who my Father is. The miracles accompanying my death, my resurrection from the dead, the effusion...
FATAL UNBELIEF _Text 8:21-30_ 21 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. 22 The Jews therefore said, Will he k...
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 unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. THEN SAID...
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...
WHEN YE HAVE LIFTED UP THE SON OF MAN (upon the cross), THEN SHALL YE KNOW THAT I AM _he_] (i.e. the Messiah), because My death will be followed by My Resurrection, which will be a token from God that...
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 UNTO THEM. — Better, _There-fore_... The teaching arises immediately out of the want of understanding just mentioned. WHEN YE HAVE LIFTED UP THE SON OF MAN. — Better, _When ye shall ha...
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...
Therefore (οὖν) Jesus said to them, Ὅταν … εἰμι, “when ye have lifted up the Son of Man, them shall ye know that I am He”. ὑψώσητε has the double reference of elevation on the cross and elevation to t...
_Further conversation with the Jews, in which Jesus warns them that He will not be long with them, and that unless they believe they will die in their sins. They will know that His witness is true aft...
THE FATHER MADE KNOWN IN HIS SON John 8:21-30 Our Lord was absorbed in acquiring glory for His Father. He was sent by the Father, lived by the Father, could do nothing of Himself, and spoke only as...
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...
_When you shall have lifted up, &c. That is, have put me to the death of the cross; (see John iii. 14. and xii. 32.) you, that is, many of you, shall know, and believe in me, as your Messias. (Witham)...
THE CRUCIFIXION John 8:28-29. _“Then Jesus said, When you may lift up the Son of man, then you shall know that I am He; and I do nothing of Myself; but as the Father taught Me, these things I speak.”_...
“ _Jesus therefore said to them_, _when you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself, but that I speak these things to you according to the teach...
3. “IT IS I.” 8:21-29. Jesus had just applied to Himself the two principal symbols which the feast presented to Him. The following testimony completes the two which precede; it is a more general affi...
Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins. Whither I go, ye cannot come. (22) Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I...
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...
28._When you shall have exalted the Son of man. _Offended at that stupidity which the Evangelist has described, Christ again declares that they do not deserve that he should open his mouth to speak to...
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 UNTO THEM,.... Upbraiding them with their ignorance, and giving them a sign, as well as pointing out the time when they either, by good or sad experience, should have knowledge of him:...
Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am _he_, and _that_ I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. Ver. 28....
_Then said Jesus, When ye have lifted up the Son of man_ From the earth on the cross; and have proceeded so far as to put him to a violent death, then, instead of seeing his cause and interest overbor...
LIFTED UP THE SON OF MAN; upon the cross. Another of the obscure hints which the Saviour was in the habit of giving concerning the manner of his approaching death and its mighty results. The Jews rais...
The distinguishing sign:...
THEN SAID JESUS UNTO THEM, WHEN YE HAVE LIFTED UP THE SON OF MAN, THEN SHALL YE KNOW THAT I AM HE, AND THAT I DO NOTHING OF MYSELF; BUT AS MY FATHER HATH TAUGHT ME, I SPEAK THESE THINGS....
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...
21-29 Those that live in unbelief, are for ever undone, if they die in unbelief. The Jews belonged to this present evil world, but Jesus was of a heavenly and Divine nature, so that his doctrine, kin...
It is your unhappiness, that while I am alive, and preaching the gospel to you, inviting you to repentance, and faith in me, as the true Messiah, you will not believe me to be indeed what I am; but yo...
Tertullian Against Praxeas Himself says: "Then shall ye know that I am He and that I am saying nothing of my own self; but that, as my Father hath taught me, so I speak, because He that sent me is wi...
John 8:28 Then G5119 Jesus G2424 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 When G3752 up G5312 (G5661) Son...
JESUS IS FROM ABOVE (JOHN 8:21). The emphasis now moves away from the fact that He is the light of the world, to the fact that He is the One Who has come from above. That is why their failure to reco...
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...
‘So Jesus said, ‘When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am, and that I do nothing of myself but say just what my Father has taught me'. Jesus now again faces them up to wha...
John 8:28. JESUS THEREFORE SAID, WHEN YE HAVE LIFTED ON HIGH THE SON OF MAN, THEN SHALL YE KNOW THAT I AM, AND THAT OF MYSELF I DO NOTHING; BUT EVEN AS THE FATHER TAUGHT ME, I SPEAK THESE THINGS. They...
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...
WHEN YE HAVE LIFTED UP THE SON OF MAN (οταν υψωσητε τον υιον του ανθρωπου). Indefinite temporal clause with οταν (οτε + αν) and the first aorist active subjunctive of υψοω, to lift up (_Koine_ verb...
SON OF MAN (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 8:20). _...
John 8:28 The Gathering of the Nations I. This text is a prophecy of the very widest scope. Christ is not so much addressing a few Jews as the whole world when He says: "Ye shall know that I am He....
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...
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...
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...
WHEN YOU LIFT UP THE SON OF MAN. Lifting him up on the Cross would break down unbelief. Many things would happen to show that he was the Son of God. Fifty days after his raising from death, three thou...
_When ye have lifted up the Son of Man._ --As instruments they would lift Him to the cross; as a result He would ascend to His throne. (_W. H. Van Doren, D. D._) CHRIST FORECASTING HIS DEATH AND DES...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 8:28 LIFTED UP. The second of three “lifted up” sayings in John 1:1 (see also John 3:14;...
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. When ye have lifted Me up on the Cross. He calls it His exaltation, for though it seemed to be His greatest degradation and disgrace, yet it was made to be, by God's Providence,...
_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 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Acts 2:41; Acts 4:4;...
Lifted up. See on 3 14. Ye shall know [γ ν ω σ ε σ θ ε]. Render, perceive, here as in ver. 27. I am He. As in ver. 24, on which see note. Of myself [α π ε μ α υ τ ο υ]. Properly, from myself, as Re...
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...