Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 8:47
He that is of God — That either loves or fears him, heareth — With joy and reverence, God's words — Which I preach.
He that is of God — That either loves or fears him, heareth — With joy and reverence, God's words — Which I preach.
Verse 47. _HE THAT IS OF GOD_] Meaning probably himself: he who came from God, or was born of God-heareth the words of God-has the constant inspiration of his Spirit, speaks nothing but truth, and can...
HE THAT IS OF GOD - He that loves, fears, and honors God. HEARETH GOD’S WORDS - Listens to, or attends to the doctrines or commandments of God, as a child who loves his parent will regard and obey his...
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...
HE THAT IS OF GOD HEARETH GOD'S WORDS. These Pharisees claimed to be of God, but proved they were not by rejecting the words of the Son....
"Who of you can convict me of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe in me? He who is from God hears God's words. That is why you do not hear, because you are not from God." The Jews answer...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
HE THAT, &c. Note the Introversion in the structure of John 8:47, WORDS. sayings. Greek. _rhema._ See note on Mark 9:32....
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....
Christ answers His own question and at the same time gives a final disproof of their claim to call God their father (John 8:41). _heareth God's words_ Christ here assumes, what He elsewhere maintains...
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...
47. There is a pause, and then Christ answers His own question and gives a final disproof of their claim to be God’s children (John 8:41). Ὁ ὪΝ ἘΚ Τ. Θ. The true child of God, deriving his whole being...
Ver 44. You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a...
_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...
ΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. _Praes._ описывает одновременное действие. Subst. part. описывает качество, έκ ΤΟΎ ΘΕΟΎ от Bora. _Gen._ источника....
WHICH OF YOU CONVINCETH ME OF SIN?— _Can convict me of sin?_ Heylin. The only reason for refusing assent to a person is, either because he is not deserving of credit, or because what he asserts is imp...
SATAN'S CHILDREN _Text 8:41-47_ 41 Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Fat...
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...
He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. HE THAT IS OF GOD HEARETH GOD'S WORDS: YE THEREFORE, [ dia (G1223 ) touto (G5124 ), or 'for this reason...
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...
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...
HE THAT IS OF GOD HEARETH GOD’S WORDS. — Again He answers the question which He has Himself asked, and gives more fully the same reason which He gave in John 8:43. In John 8:44 He asserted that they w...
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...
He is believed by those who have another moral parentage, ὁ ὢν … ἐστέ. “He that is of God listens to the words of God,” implying that the words He spoke were God's words. Their not listening proved th...
_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
THE TEST OF SONSHIP John 8:39-47 Godly ancestors and parents will avail nothing, unless we are animated by their spirit and do their works. There were in the old world two families that ran in paral...
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...
SATANIC PATERNITY OF THE UNREGENERATE John 8:37-47. _“I know that ye are the seed of Abraham; but you seek to kill Me, because My Word has no place in you.”_ How sad the condition of those preachers a...
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_,...
“ _And because I say the truth to you, you believe me not._ 46. _Which of you can convict me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me?_ 47. _He that is of God hears the words of God;...
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...
47._He who is of God. _As he has a full right to take this for granted, that he is the ambassador of the heavenly Father, and that he discharges faithfully the office which has been committed to him,...
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...
HE THAT IS OF GOD,.... Who is born, not of blood, by carnal descent from any person, or of the carnal will, or by the power of freewill, or of the will of the best man in the world; but of God, accord...
He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear _them_ not, because ye are not of God. Ver. 47. _He that is of God heareth God's word_] With attention of body, intention of mind, and retenti...
_Ye are of your father the devil_ Ye are the genuine children of Satan; _and the lusts_ Τας επιθυμιας, _the desires; of your father ye will do_ Namely, resolutely and obstinately, as the words, θελετε...
HE THAT IS OF GOD; that loves him, and is like him in spirit....
The true ancestry of the Jews:...
HE THAT IS OF GOD HEARETH GOD'S WORDS; YE THEREFORE HEAR THEM NOT BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF GOD. The Jews had vehemently repudiated the idea of their being idolaters and had just as emphatically insisted...
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...
41-47 Satan prompts men to excesses by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into the mind tends to ruin men's souls. He is the great promoter of falsehood of every kind. He is...
HE THAT IS OF GOD; to be of God, here, is opposed to a being not of God, and so may be understood to comprehend election, as well as regeneration. HEARETH GOD'S WORDS; he heareth, acknowledgeth, belie...
John 8:47 is G5607 (G5752) of G1537 God G2316 hears G191 (G5719) Gods G2316 words G4487 therefore...
‘If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? He who is of God, hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is because you are not of God'. So then He asked them why, if He was speaking...
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...
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...
John 8:47. HE THAT IS OF GOD HEARETH THE WORDS OF GOD: FOR THIS CAUSE YE HEAR NOT, BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF GOD. As in John 8:43, the word _hear_ has the meaning _listen to_, so that the thought of recei...
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...
HE THAT IS OF GOD (ο ων εκ του θεου). See this use of εκ in John 3:31. "Their not listening proved that they were not of God" (Dods). They were of the earth and the devil, not of God....
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....
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...
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...
YOU, HOWEVER, ARE NOT FROM GOD. See notes on John 3:19-21....
_I speak that which I have seen with My Father; and ye do that which ye have seen with your Father_ THE MARKS OF DIVINE AND DIABOLIC RELATIONSHIP Christ had admitted (John 8:37) that the Jews were t...
_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 8:47 YOU DO NOT HEAR in the sense of hearing, believing, and following. ⇐ ⇔
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...
_He that is of God,_ &c. He here assigns the true reason for the unbelief of the Jews, because they were born not of God, but of the devil; that is, ye do not listen to the spirit and instinct of God,...
_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 John 3:10; 1 John 4:1; 1 John 5:1; 2 John 1:9; 3 John 1:11;...
He that is of [ο ω ν ε κ]. The familiar construction. See on 1 46....