Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)
John 8:8
Having shot this arrow Jesus again stooped and continued writing on the ground, intimating that so far as He was concerned the matter was closed.
Having shot this arrow Jesus again stooped and continued writing on the ground, intimating that so far as He was concerned the matter was closed.
JOHN 8:8 gh/n In order to satisfy pious curiosity concerning what it was that Jesus wrote upon the ground, after gh/n several witnesses (U P 73 331 364 700 782 1592 armmss) add the words e[noj e`ka,s...
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. ...
PERICOPE ADULTERS. JOHN 7:53 TO JOHN 8:11. JESUS AND THE WOMAN ACCUSED OF SIN. The well-known story of the woman taken in adultery has no claim to be regarded as part of the original text of this gos...
AGAIN HE STOOPED DOWN, AND WROTE. Resuming his former attitude he left them to ponder what he had said and to act upon it. There, for. little while, stood the silent scene; the stooping Lord slowly tr...
And each of them went to his own house; but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he was again in the Temple precincts, and all the people came to him. He sat down and went on teachi...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
WROTE. The curses, as before....
_again he stooped down_ He again declines to have the office of judge thrust upon Him. The Reader of men's hearts knew how His challenge must work: no one would respond to it. _and wrote on the ground...
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...
ΠΆΛΙΝ Κ. Ἔ. He again refuses to have the office of judge thrust upon Him. The Reader of men’s hearts knew how His challenge would work: no one would respond to it. ἜΓΡΑΦΕΝ. Imperfect, as in John 8:6....
1–11. The number of various readings in this section is very large, and we have not the data for constructing a satisfactory text....
Ver. Jesus went to the mount of Olives. 2. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3. And the Scribes and Pharisees br...
_GO AND SIN NO MORE -- JOHN 8:1-11:_ Jesus spent the night in Mount Olives. Early the next morning the people were waiting for Him in the Temple. He did not disappoint them. He came to the Temple, sat...
ΚΑΤΑΚΫ́ΨΑΣ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΚΑΤΑΚΎΠΤΩ (G2596) склоняться, ΈΓΡΑΦΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ (G1125) писать. _Impf._, "Он продолжил писать". Есть предположение, что Он записал строки...
See the chapter comments for John 8:1-59....
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 8:1-11 We begin with the customary Analysis:— In this series of expositions of John’s Gospel we have sedulously avoided technical matters, preferring to confine...
And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. AND AGAIN HE STOOPED DOWN, AND WROTE ON THE GROUND. The design of this second stooping and writing on the ground was evidently to give her accus...
41 Ever since the days of Moses the nation of Israel has been waiting for the Prophet Who was to be like him, and lead the nation out of worse than Egyptian bondage into the heritage of the kingdom. T...
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 WROTE ON THE GROUND. — The Cambridge MS. inserts, “with His finger,” as in John 8:6. The repeated action repeats His determination to avoid the office of judge. He has answered them, and He leaves...
CHAPTER 17 THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY. “And they went every man unto his own house: but Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the peopl...
THE ACCUSERS SELF-CONDEMNED John 8:1-11 This passage has been the subject of much controversy, but there is no possibility of accounting for it except on the supposition that this incident really to...
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...
CHAPTER 3 THE ADULTEROUS WOMAN John 8:1-11. I merely insert this caption through courtesy to the English reader; but will be excused from the exposition, as this item is entirely absent from the orig...
The admirable, yet at the same time very simple, art of the answer of Jesus in John 8:7 consists in bringing back the question from the _judicial_ domain, where His adversaries were placing it, to the...
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery: and when they had set her in the midst, (4) They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. (5)...
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...
AND AGAIN HE STOOPED DOWN, AND WROTE ON THE GROUND. As before, having said enough to confound them; and yet unwilling to pursue the matter any further, or publicly expose them in any other way; and th...
And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. Ver. 8. _And again he stooped down_] In sign of slighting, or that he might give them the more confidence of going out, seeJohn 8:6. Our Saviour de...
_When they continued asking him_ That is, pressed him with great importunity to give an answer, thinking, no doubt, that they had him at a great advantage; _he lifted up himself, and_, without replyin...
The Savior's solution:...
AND AGAIN HE STOOPED DOWN, AND WROTE ON THE GROUND....
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...
1-11 Christ neither found fault with the law, nor excused the prisoner's guilt; nor did he countenance the pretended zeal of the Pharisees. Those are self-condemned who judge others, and yet do the s...
When our Saviour had said this, he returneth to his former posture and action, (it being not a thing wherein he was concerned, who was not sent into the world to be a secular judge), as not at all reg...
John 8:8 And G2532 again G3825 stooped G2955 (G5660) down G2736 wrote G1125 (G5707) on G1519 ground...
‘And again he stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground.' The dual mention must be seen as significant. The writer clearly sees it as important, and so therefore must we. Those with an eye...
The almost unanimous voice of modem criticism pronounces the narrative before us to be no genuine part of the Gospel of John. The section is wanting in the oldest and most trustworthy MSS. of the Gosp...
John 8:8. AND AGAIN HE STOOPED DOWN, AND WROTE ON THE GROUND. Jesus returned to His writing on the ground, and left His words to sink into the hearts of His hearers....
AGAIN HE STOOPED DOWN (παλιν κατακυψας). First aorist active participle of κατακυπτω, old and rare verb (in Epictetus II, 16. 22) instead of κατω κυψας in verse John 8:6.WITH HIS FINGER (τω δακτυ...
John 7:53. _And every man went unto his own house_. John 8:1. _Jesus went unto the mount of Olives._ That is, as every man went to his own house to rest, so Jesus found rest in secret prayer on the...
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 HE BENT OVER AGAIN. By this, he dismisses them....
_And the Scribes and the Pharisees brought unto Him a woman taken in adultery_ THE SCENE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE It is probable that the hilarity and abandonment of the feast, which had grown to be a k...
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...
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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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