Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 8:35
And the slave abideth not in the house — All sinners shall be cast out of God's house, as the slave was out of Abraham's: but I, the Son, abide therein for ever.
And the slave abideth not in the house — All sinners shall be cast out of God's house, as the slave was out of Abraham's: but I, the Son, abide therein for ever.
Verse 35. _AND THE SERVANT ABIDETH NOT IN THE HOUSE_] Or, rather, _Now the slave abided not in the family_. As if Jesus had said: And now that I am speaking of a _slave_, I will add one thing more, v...
THE SERVANT ABIDETH NOT ... - The servant does not, of course, remain forever, or until his death. with his master. If he is disobedient and wicked, the master sells him or turns him away. He is not t...
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...
THE SERVANT ABIDETH NOT IN THE HOUSE FOREVER. The servant has no claim to remain continually in the same family, but may be changed at will. The son can remain because he is. son. Hagar, the bondwoman...
They answered him: "We are the descendants of Abraham and we have never been slaves to any man. How do you say: 'You will become free'?" Jesus answered them: "This is the truth I tell you--everyone wh...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
ABIDETH. See note on John 1:32. FOR EVER. See App-151. a, He may be sold or manumitted. THE SON. Greek _huios._ App-108. Never used of _believers_ in this Gospel. This word is reserved for Christ on...
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....
_And the servant_, &c. The transition is somewhat abrupt, the mention of -bond-servant" suggesting a fresh thought. NOW THE BOND-SERVANT (not the bond-servant _of sin_, but any slave) _abideth not 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...
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...
Ὁ ΔῈ ΔΟΥ͂ΛΟΣ. The transition is somewhat abrupt, the mention of ‘bond-servant’ suggesting a fresh thought. NOW the bond-servant (not the BOND-SERVANT _of sin_, but any slave) _abideth not in the house...
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...
AND THE SERVANT ABIDETH NOT IN THE HOUSE FOR EVER:— "As a slave cannot be so assured of his master's favour, as to depend upon it that he shall never be turned out of the family, since he is always hi...
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 8:33-59 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...
And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. AND THE SERVANT (OR, 'NOW THE [BOND-]SERVANT') ABIDETH NOT IN THE HOUSE FOREVER: [BUT] THE SON ABIDETH EVER....
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...
A slave, unlike a son, formed no part of the family. He could be sold or expelled at will. So these Jews, slaves of sin and of the letter of the Law, were no true members of the Messiah's kingdom, and...
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 THE SERVANT ABIDETH NOT. — Better, _Now the bondman abideth not_..., as in the last verse. THE SON ABIDETH EVER. — Better, _for ever,_ as in the earlier clause. The Greek words are precisely the s...
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_....
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...
Now the servant abideth not in the house for ever, nor has a right to live in that manner as a son and a child of the family has to live in his father's house. A slave or servant, though he live ever...
THE SON THE AUTHOR OF TRUE FREEDOM John 8:35-36. _“The slave does not abide in the house forever.”_ This great and beautiful world is one of God's houses, in which not a few of His children have been...
“ _The slave does not abide in the house for ever; the son abides for ever._ 36. _If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed._ ” If in John 8:34 the words τῆς ἁμαρτίας, _of sin_, are...
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_,...
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)...
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...
35._Now the slave remaineth not in the house always. _He adds a comparison, taken from the laws and from political law, to the effect that _a slave_, though he may have power for a time, yet is not th...
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 THE SERVANT ABIDETH NOT IN THE HOUSE FOR EVER,.... The servant of God, and of Christ, does, but not the servant of sin: there may be servants of sin in the house or church of God here below; and s...
And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: _but_ the Son abideth ever. Ver. 35. _But the Son abideth ever_] This is a part of that spiritual birthright, John 1:12. God hath charged Christ to...
_They answered him_ Namely, the other Jews that were present, not those that believed, as appears by the whole tenor of the conversation; _We be Abraham's seed_ A person always free, and a peculiar fa...
ABIDETH EVER; not permanently; he is liable at any time to be dismissed. ABIDETH EVER; he has a permanent residence, and is heir to the estate. The son is here, first, the Son of God, who dwells with...
AND THE SERVANT ABIDETH NOT IN THE HOUSE FOREVER; BUT THE SON ABIDETH EVER....
True liberty:...
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...
The servant of sin abideth not in the church (which is the house of God) for ever. Look as it is with slaves, and servants; they are no fixed members of families; they may be turned out, they may be s...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I And do not reprehend me when I profess to know God; for so it was deemed right to speak to the Word, and He is free.[49]...
John 8:35 And G1161 slave G1401 not G3756 abide G3306 (G5719) in G1722 house G3614 forever G1519...
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 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...
‘And the slave does not remain in the house for ever, the son remains for ever. So if the Son makes you free, you will indeed be free'. Jesus now contrasts those who are slaves to sin to those who bec...
John 8:35. AND THE SLAVE ABIDETH NOT IN THE HOUSE FOR EVER: THE SON ABIDETH FOR EVER. The Jews believed that they were free, the sons of God; and that, as such, they were permanent possessors of His h...
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...
THE BONDSERVANT (ο δουλος)...THE SON (ο υιος). There is a change in the metaphor by this contrast between the positions of the son and the slave in the house. The slave has no footing or tenure an...
John 8:35 I. We see here the possible ending of the tyranny of sin. "A slave abides not in the house for ever." Therefore the very fact that the service of sin is so hard a slavery shows it to be unn...
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...
BUT A SON BELONGS THERE FOREVER. A slave has no legal claim on the family. The son is a permanent member of the family. The Jews, as slaves of sin, would soon be turned out of the Lord's household. Ma...
_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;...
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...
_The servant abideth not,_ &c. He who is the servant of sin, like you Jews, has not the right of remaining in his Master's house (that is the Church of God) for ever: for after death he will be cast i...
_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 1:2; Colossians 3:3; Ezekiel 46:17; Galatians 4:30; Gal
Abideth not in the house forever. A slave has no permanent place in the house. He may be sold, exchanged, or cast out. Compare Genesis 21:10; Galatians 4:30. House. See Hebrews 3:6;...
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...