ἐγὼ δὲ. “But I” in contrast to the devil “because I speak the truth you do not believe me.” Had I spoken falsehood you would have believed me, because it is your nature to live in what is false (cf. Euthymius).
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...
BECAUSE. TELL YOU THE TRUTH, YE BELIEVE ME NOT. He has just declared that the devil is the father of liars and that they are his children; hence they would refuse to receive the truth. They had in the...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
AND. But TELL YOU. speak. BELIEVE ME. App-150. See note on John 1:7....
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....
_And because I tell you_, &c. Better, BUT _because I_ SPEAK _the truth, ye do not believe me_. -Ye will listen to the devil (John 8:38); ye will believe a lie: but the Messiah speaking the truth ye wi...
ἘΓῺ ΔῈ ὍΤΙ. BUT _as for Me, because I_ SAY _the truth, ye believe Me not_: ἐγώ is in emphatic contrast to the ψεύστης. Just as the devil ‘stood not in the truth’ because of his natural alienation from...
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...
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...
ΕΓΏ ΔΈ Я, с другой стороны. Поставлено вперед для выделения (Bernard), ΠΙΣΤΕΎΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩ (G4100) верить. _Praes._ описывает их текущее состояние веры. Они предпочитают' верить л...
AND BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH,— "True children of your Father, John 8:44 you disbelieve me, because, instead of soothing you in your sins, and flattering you with lies, I tell you the truth; to whi...
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...
And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. AND (OR RATHER, 'BUT') BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, YE BELIEVE ME NOT - not although He told it them, but because He did so, and for the reaso...
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...
AND BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH. — The pronoun is full of emphatic meaning. And I, as contrary to him, because 1 tell you the truth, as contrary to the lie which is his characteristic. YE BELIEVE ME...
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...
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...
“ _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;...
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)...
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...
45._But because I speak the truth. _He confirms the preceding statement; for, since they have no other reason for opposing, but because truth is hateful and intolerable to them, they show plainly that...
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 BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH,.... And no lie, the whole truth of the Gospel, and particularly the truth of his divine sonship: YE BELIEVE ME NOT; to such an infatuation and judicial blindness wer...
And because I tell _you_ the truth, ye believe me not. Ver. 45. _And because I tell you the truth_] _See Trapp on "_ Joh 8:40 _"_...
_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...
AND BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, YE BELIEVE ME NOT....
The true ancestry of the Jews:...
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...
Such is your hatred to the truth, that you hate me for no other reason but because I reveal my Father's will (which is the truth) to you; than which nothing can evidence a greater hatred to truth, nor...
John 8:45 But G1161 because G3754 I G1473 tell G3004 (G5719) truth G225 not G3756 believe G4100 ...
‘But because I tell you the truth you do not believe me'. Jesus then scathingly points out that they are willing to receive anything but the truth. How could they believe when they were so dishonest t...
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...
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...
John 8:45. BUT BECAUSE I SAY THE TRUTH, YE BELIEVE ME NOT. They loved the lie, because their father was a liar, and his desires it was their will to do. Such was their love for falsehood (even as thei...
BECAUSE I SPEAK THE TRUTH (εγω δε οτ την αληθειαν λεγω). Proleptic emphatic position of εγω. "Truth is uncongenial to them" (Bernard). See John 3:19 for their picture....
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...
I TELL THE TRUTH. If he told them a lie, they would believe it, because they hate the truth. Compare John 5:43....
_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;...
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...
_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...
2 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Timothy 4:3; 2 Timothy 4:4; Galatians 4:16;...
And because I [ε γ ω δ ε ο τ ι]. Render but, instead of and. You would believe falsehood if I should speak it, but because I tell you the truth, you do not believe. The I is emphatic. I, because I tel...
Because I speak the truth — Which liars hate....
Here observe, 1. The free reproof which Christ gave the Jews for their obstinate unbelief; BECAUSE. TELL YOU THE TRUTH, YE BELIEVE ME NOT. Observe, 2. The challenge which he gives the worst of his adv...