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John 8:25
Who are you? This is not a question, but a challenge! Jesus answers it by referring them to what he has already said.
Who are you? This is not a question, but a challenge! Jesus answers it by referring them to what he has already said.
JOHN 8:25 o[ ti {B} Since the older Greek manuscripts lack punctuation and are written without division between words, it is possible to interpret Th.n avrch.n … u`mi/n in several ways: 1. As a ques...
Verse 25. _WHO ART THOU?_] This marks the indignation of the Pharisees-as if they had said: Who art thou that takest upon thee to deal out threatenings in this manner against us? _JESUS SAITH UNTO T...
WHO ART THOU? - As Jesus did not expressly say in the previous verse that he was the Messiah, they professed still not to understand him. In great contempt, therefore, they asked him who he was. As if...
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...
WHO ART THOU? He had said, "believe that. am;" they said, "believe that thou art what? Who art thou?" Their words were no doubt spoken with. sneer, as though they said, "Whom, then, dost thou fancy th...
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...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
EVEN THE SAME THAT... BEGINNING. He Whom. say also to you at the beginning [of this colloquy, verses: John 8:12]. Compare Septuagint, Genesis 43:18; Genesis 43:20. at the beginning [of our coming down...
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 they They said_ THEREFORE. _Who art thou?_ It is incredible that the Jews can have failed to understand. Christ had just declared that He was from above, and not of this world. Even if the...
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...
ΣῪ ΤΊΣ ΕΙ͂; It is incredible that the Jews can have failed to understand. Christ had just declared that He was from above, and not of this world. Even if the words ‘I am’ were ambiguous in themselves,...
VER 25. THEN SAID THEY TO HIM, WHO ARE YOU? AND JESUS SAID TO THEM, EVEN THE SAME THAT I SAID TO YOU FROM THE BEGINNING. 26. I HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY AND TO JUDGE OF YOU: BUT HE THAT SENT ME IS TRUE;...
_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...
ΤΉΝ άρχήν нареч., _асс._ с начала, от начала. По поводу сложного оборота _см._ Brown; Schnackenburg....
EVEN THE SAME THAT I SAID UNTO YOU, &C.— On supposition that this is the proper translation of the passage, our Lord's meaning was, "I am that which I said to you at the beginning of this discourse, n...
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 they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning. THEN SAID THEY UNTO HIM WHO ART THOU? - hoping thus to extort an explicit a...
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...
8:25 Altogether (f-14) 'in the principle and universality of what I am;' i.e. his speech presented himself, being the truth....
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...
EVEN _the same_] viz. the Messiah. This rendering alone suits the context. Another translation is, 'Why do I even speak to you at all?'...
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 THEY UNTO HIM, WHO ART THOU? — They ask the question in the tone of scorn which they have already expressed in John 8:22. The pronoun is the emphatic word: “_Thou,_ who art _thou?”_ and the...
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...
This only adds bewilderment to their mind, and they, not “pertly and contemptuously” (Meyer, Weiss, Holtzmann), but with some shade of impatience, ask: Σὺ τίς εἶ; “Who art Thou?” To this Jesus replies...
_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...
(9) Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even (f) [the same] that I said unto you from the beginning. (9) He will eventually know who Christ is who will diligently hear w...
Who art thou? Jesus said to them: The beginning, [3] who also speak to you. This text and the construction of it is obscure, both in the Latin and in the Greek. St. Augustine and some of the Latin Fat...
ALARMING PREDICTION AGAINST THEM John 8:21-27. _“Then He again said to them, I go, and you shall seek Me, and you shall perish in your sin; whither I go, you are not able to come.”_ The prophetic eye...
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...
“ _And he said to them, you are from beneath, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world._ 24. _Therefore I said to you, that you shall die in your sins; for, if you do not believe...
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...
25._From the beginning. _They who translate the words τὴν ἀρχὴν, as if they had been in the nominative case, _I am the beginning_, (227) and as if Christ were here asserting his eternal Divinity, are...
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 THEY UNTO HIM, WHO ART THOU?.... That talks at this rate, and threatens with death, in case of unbelief; this they said with an haughty air, and in a scornful manner: AND JESUS SAITH UNTO T...
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even _the same_ that I said unto you from the beginning. Ver. 25. _Even the same that I said, &c._] To wit, "the way, the truth, and...
_Then said they, Who art thou?_ This question they ask in derision, and not with any desire to be instructed. _And Jesus saith, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning_ Namely, of my pub...
THEN SAID THEY UNTO HIM, WHO ART THOU? AND JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM, EVEN THE SAME THAT I SAID UNTO YOU FROM THE BEGINNING....
Christ's going to the Father:...
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...
What good Christian will not learn to contemn the slights and reproaches of sinful men, when he readeth of a company of miscreants thus using their Lord and Master, saying to him, WHO ART THOU? It is...
John 8:25 Then G3767 said G3004 (G5707) Him G846 Who G5101 are G1488 (G5748) You G4771 And...
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 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...
‘They therefore said to him, “Who are you?” ' His statement has brought them up short. They now recognised that He seemed to be claiming even more than they had at first realised (the crescendo is bui...
John 8:25. THEY SAID THEREFORE UNTO HIM, WHO ART THOU? Had they been patient, willing listeners, they would have seen His meaning; but now He _seems_ to them to have left out the one essential _word,_...
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...
WHO ART THOU? (Συ τις ει;). Proleptic use of συ before τις, "Thou, who art thou?" Cf. John 1:19. He had virtually claimed to be the Messiah and on a par with God as in John 5:15. They wish to pin h...
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...
_Then said they unto Him, Who art Thou?_ …Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning. By thus expressing Himself, Jesus evidently declared Himself to be the expected One. He avoided, howev...
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...
_They said therefore to Him, Who art Thou?_ Because they did not understand, or pretended they did not, they appositely ask _, Who art Thou? _ Jesus said to them, the Beginning (Vulg.), _I who am spea...
_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...
John 1:19; John 1:22; John 10:24; John 19:9; John 5:17;...
Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning [τ η ν α ρ χ η ν ο τ ι κ α ι λ α λ ω υ μ ι ν]. A very difficult passage, on which the commentators are almost hopelessly divided. There are two ma...
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...
Even what I say to you from the beginning — The same which I say to you, as it were in one discourse, with one even tenor from the time I first spake to you....
The Jews hearing our Saviour denouncing such. terrible threatening against them, because they believed not on him in the foregoing verses; here they perversely ask him, Who he was? Our Saviour replies...