Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 8:32
The truth — Written in your hearts by the Spirit of God, shall make you free — From guilt, sin, misery, Satan.
The truth — Written in your hearts by the Spirit of God, shall make you free — From guilt, sin, misery, Satan.
Verse 32. _YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH_] Shall have a constant _experimental knowledge_ of its power and efficacy. _AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE._] It was a maxim of the Jews, "That no man was free...
SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH - See the notes at John 7:17. THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE - The truth here means the Christian religion. Compare Galatians 3:1; Colossians 1:6
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...
AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH. Disciples are learners. Their object is to know the truth. The way to know the truth is, not to engage in study, but to obey the truth. He declares (John 7:17): "If any ma...
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)...
TRUTH. See note on John 1:14, MAKE. set....
_the truth_ Both Divine doctrine (John 17:17) and Christ Himself (John 14:6) -whose service is perfect freedom." See on John 18:37. _shall make you free_ Free from the moral slavery of sin. Comp. the...
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...
ΓΝΏΣΕΣΘΕ. _Ye shall come to know_ (John 6:69; John 7:17; John 7:26). ΤῊΝ�. Divine doctrine (John 1:17;...
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. 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...
ΓΝΏΣΕΣΘΕ _fut. ind. med. (dep.), см._ John 8:27. ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΏΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΈΛΕΥΘΕΡΌΩ (G1659) освобождать; освобождение от греха, синоним спасения (Barrett)....
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...
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE. The impression produced by the last words of our Lord may have become...
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...
8:32 know (g-4) _ Ginosko_ . see Note, 1 Corinthians 8:1 ....
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...
AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH. — In the great Intercessory Prayer of John 17, Jesus prays for His disciples: “Sanctify them in the truth: Thy word is truth” (John 8:17). In the answer to the question of...
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_....
καὶ γνώσεσθε … ὑμᾶς. By abiding in Christ's word, making it the rule of their life and accepting Him as their Guide and Teacher, they would come to that knowledge of the truth which only experimental...
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...
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall (g) make you free. (g) From the slavery of sin....
And the truth shall make you free. They were affronted at these words, as if he hinted they were slaves, and not a free people. They tell him, therefore, that they were never slaves to any one. They c...
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...
EGREGIOUS BLINDNESS OF THE JEWS John 8:32-33. _“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They responded to Him, We are the seed of Abraham, and have never been in bondage to any on...
“ _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...
VER. 32. Καί : and on this condition. They will really possess the quality of disciples; and on this path they will reach the complete illumination from which will result within them complete emancipa...
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)...
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...
_FREEDOM THROUGH THE TRUTH_ ‘Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.’ John 8:32 This is the eternal answer to the protests of modern unbelief. Let us examine the words (_a_) rev...
32._And you shall know the truth. _He says, that they who have arrived at some knowledge of it _shall know the truth _True, those whom Christ addresses were as yet uneducated, and scarcely knew the fi...
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...
AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH,.... Either the truth of the Gospel, the truth as it is in Jesus; meaning, that they should have a larger knowledge of it, while others are ever learning, and never come to...
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Ver. 32. _The truth shall make you free_] From the tyranny of sin and terror of hell. Paul's freedom saved him from whipping, Acts 22:2...
_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...
SHALL MAKE YOU FREE; under the idea of freedom, our Lord includes two things: first, deliverance from the dominion of sin; secondly, the condition of sonship as contrasted with that of servants. Both...
THE TRUE LIBERTY OF THE GOSPEL. John 8:31 Bondage and liberty:...
AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE....
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...
AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH; that is, you shall more fully and clearly know the truth; by which may be either understood Christ, who styles himself, _The way, the truth, and the life; _ or those propo...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II And the expression, "Ye have sold yourselves to your sins," agrees with what is said above: "Every one, then, who committeth sin is a slave; and the slave abide...
John 8:32 And G2532 know G1097 (G5695) truth G225 and G2532 truth G225 make G1659 you G5209 free...
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...
‘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...
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...
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 8:32. AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE. If they shall abide in the word of Jesus, it will be shown that they have begun a true discipleship, and the word in which th...
AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH (κα γνωσεσθε την αληθειαν). Truth is one of the marks of Christ (John 1:14) and Jesus will claim to Thomas to be the personification of truth (John 14:6). But it will be...
John 8:32 There are two powers that chiefly fashion our characters, and through our characters our lives, and these two are the discipline which we undergo either from ourselves or from others or from...
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...
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 8:28. _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...
AND THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE. The _truth_ is that God has acted in history through Jesus Christ. Those who believe this will reach out through faith to seize the sacrifice of Christ and make thems...
_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 8:32 There is only one way to KNOW THE TRUTH. That is by continuing to believe and obey Jesus’ word (v. John 8:31). SET YOU FREE. Fro
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 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 2:16; 2 Corinthians 3:17; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Timothy 2:25;...
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...