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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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....
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WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
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"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...
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HE THAT, &c. Note the Introversion in the structure of John 8:47,
WORDS. sayings. Greek. _rhema._ See note on Mark 9:32....
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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ΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. _Praes._
описывает одновременное действие. Subst.
part. описывает качество, έκ ΤΟΎ ΘΕΟΎ от
Bora. _Gen._ источника....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“ _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;...
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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_,...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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HE THAT IS OF GOD; that loves him, and is like him in spirit....
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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...
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The true ancestry of the Jews:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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John 8:47 is G5607 (G5752) of G1537 God G2316 hears G191 (G5719) Gods
G2316 words G4487 therefore...
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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...
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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...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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YOU, HOWEVER, ARE NOT FROM GOD. See notes on John 3:19-21....
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_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;...
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_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...
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JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 8:47 YOU DO NOT HEAR in the sense of hearing,
believing, and following.
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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...
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_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,...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 3:10; 1 John 4:1; 1 John 5:1; 2 John 1:9; 3 John 1:11;...
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He that is of [ο ω ν ε κ]. The familiar construction. See on 1
46....
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He that is of God — That either loves or fears him, heareth — With
joy and reverence, God's words — Which I preach....