Darby's translation notes (1890)
John 8:55
8:55 word. (a-33) Logos . see Hebrews 6:1 . know (f-3) Objective knowledge, ginosko . know (g-8) Conscious knowledge, oida , three times here.
8:55 word. (a-33) Logos . see Hebrews 6:1 . know (f-3) Objective knowledge, ginosko . know (g-8) Conscious knowledge, oida , three times here.
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...
YE HAVE NOT KNOWN HIM, BUT. KNOW HIM. They claimed to be worshipers of Abraham's God. He now shows, that despite their claims, they did not know him, but that he knew and revealed him. Nor could he d...
"This is the truth I tell you--if anyone keeps my word, he will not see death for ever." The Jews said to him: "Now we are certain that you are mad. Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you are s...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
Christ first answers the insinuation that He is vain-glorious, implied in the question -whom makest Thou Thyself?" Then He shews that He really is greater than Abraham....
_Yet ye have not known him; but I know him_ Once more we have two different Greek words for -know" in close proximity, and the difference is obliterated in our version (comp. John 7:15; John 7:17; Joh...
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....
54–56. Christ first answers the insinuation that He is vainglorious, implied in the question ‘whom makest Thou Thyself? Then He shews that He really is greater than Abraham....
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...
ἘΓΝΏΚΑΤΕ … ΟἾΔΑ. AND _ye have not_ LEARNED TO KNOW _Him_ (John 8:52); _but I know Him_. Οἶδα refers to His immediate essential knowledge of the Father, ἐγνώκατε to the progressive knowledge of mankind...
Ver 52. Then said the Jews to him, Now we know that you have a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. 53. Are you greater than o...
_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...
ΈΓΝΏΚΑΤΕ _perf. ind. act., см._ John 8:27. _Perf._ указывает на длительные результаты. ΕΪΠΩ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. _Conj._ с ΚΑΝ (G2532; G302) в _conj._ 3 типа, предполагающем во...
YET YE HAVE NOT KNOWN HIM, &C.— Though you profess to worship my Father as your God, you are ignorant of him: you neither form right conceptions of him, nor acknowledge him in the manner you ought to...
CHRIST DEFAMED _Text 8:48-59_ 48 The Jews answered and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon? 49 Jesus answered, I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, an...
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...
Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. YET YE HAVE NOT KNOWN HIM; BUT I KNOW HIM: AND...
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...
YET YE HAVE NOT KNOWN HIM; BUT I KNOW HIM. — The frequency of lip-assertion was not accompanied by any true heart-knowledge. The Father who glorified Him was the God whom they professed to serve. Thei...
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 ETERNAL CHRIST John 8:48-59 It is absolutely true that the Christian disciple does see death as the king of terrors or as a grim monster. Jesus has robbed death of its sting; He has destroyed Him...
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...
(19) Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. (19) There is no right knowledge of God with...
JESUS PRE-ABRAHAMIC John 8:52-59. _“The Jews said to Him, Now we know that Thou hast a demon.”_ Sharpers, sent out for that specific purpose, hung on His lips, like lightning upon the skirts of the cl...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 51-59. 1. In John 8:51 Jesus turns the discourse to the more positive side, and brings out one of the great thoughts presented in this Gospel, namely, tha...
“ _Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; he who glorifies me is my Father, he of whom you say that he is your God;_ 55 _and yet you do not know him, but I know him; and if I say th...
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_,...
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...
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...
YET YE HAVE NOT KNOWN HIM,.... Not as the Father of Christ, nor as in Christ, whom to know is life eternal: they had no spiritual knowledge of him, nor communion with him; nor did they know truly his...
Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. Ver. 55. _Yet ye have not known him_] There is a...
_Jesus answered, If I honour myself_, (referring to their words, _Whom makest thou thyself?_) _my honour is nothing_ If I should speak in praise of myself, you would call it vain and foolish; and say...
The attempt to kill the Lord:...
YET YE HAVE NOT KNOWN HIM. BUT I KNOW HIM; AND IF I SHOULD SAY, I KNOW HIM NOT, I SHALL BE A LIAR LIKE UNTO YOU; BUT I KNOW HIM, AND KEEP HIS SAYING....
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...
54-59 Christ and all that are his, depend upon God for honour. Men may be able to dispute about God, yet may not know him. Such as know not God, and obey not the gospel of Christ, are put together, 2...
John 8:55 Yet G2532 have G1097 not G3756 known G1097 (G5758) Him G846 but G1161 I G1473 know...
‘Jesus answered, ‘If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God. But you have not known him. But I know him, and if I said that I d...
THE CHALLENGE COMES TO ITS CLIMAX BY JESUS REVEALING THAT HE IS THE ‘I AM' (JOHN 8:48). In this final section Jesus deals with their insults by facing them up with the issues of life and death, and t...
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 8:54-55 a . JESUS ANSWERED, IF I GLORIFY MYSELF, MY GLORY IS NOTHING: IT IS MY FATHER THAT GLORIFIETH ME, OF WHOM YE SAY THAT HE IS YOUR GOD, AND HAVE NOT GOT KNOWLEDGE OF HIM. First, Jesus answe...
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...
AND YE HAVE NOT KNOWN HIM (κα ουκ εγνωκατε αυτον). Adversative use again of κα="and yet." Perfect active indicative of γινωσκω, the verb for experiential knowledge. This was true of the κοσμος (John...
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 HAVE NEVER KNOWN HIM. "_This very one you say is your God."_ They should have "known" God from the Scriptures, but they did not. Jesus KNEW God personally!...
_Ye have not known Him; but I know Him_ I. THE JEWS’ IGNORANCES. 1. They knew Him not in His majesty, His infinity, His mercifulness, since they conceived of Him only after a low and material idea....
_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;...
_Abraham is dead and the prophets_ ABRAHAM AND JESUS I. THE GREATNESS OF ABRAHAM: 1. The ancestor of the Jews. “Our father,” said they (John 8:53); “Your father,” conceded Christ (John 8:56). It wa...
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...
_Yet ye have not known Him,_ &c. (1.) Ye know not the true God whom ye worship; ye know Him not to be one in essence and threefold in person, for ye think Him to be one in Person, as He is one in esse...
_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 2:22; 1 John 2:4; 1 John 5:10; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Acts 17:23;...
Saying [λ ο γ ο ν]. Properly, word, as ver. 51. So Rev....