I am he [ε γ ω ε ι μ ι]. He is inserted in the versions and is not in the text. By retaining it, we read, I am the Messiah. But the words are rather the solemn expression of His absolute divine being, as in ver 58 "If ye believe not that I am." See Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 43:10; and compare vv. 28, 58 of this chapter, and John 13:19.
THAT I AM HE - That I am the Messiah....
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...
SAID THEREFORE, YE SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS. Because "they are from beneath," "of the world." The only way that there is of escape from the fearful fate that he predicts is stated: "If ye believe not t...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
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...
BELIEVE. See note on John 1:7, and App-150. I AM HE. I am. There is no "He "in the Greek See note on John 6:35. SINS. Plural here. See John 8:21....
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....
_ye shall die in your sins_ Here -die" is emphatic, not -sin" as in John 8:21. Moreover the plural is here correct; it is no longer the state of sin generally, but the separate sins of each that are s...
ἈΠΟΘΑΝΕΙ͂ΣΘΕ. This is the emphatic word here, not ἐν τ. ἁμαρτ., as in John 8:21 The plural expresses the separate sins of each. “No reckoning made, but sent to your account with all your imperfections...
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 21. THEN SAID JESUS AGAIN TO THEM, I GO MY WAY, AND YOU SHALL SEEK ME, AND SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS: WHITHER I GO, YOU CANNOT COME. 22. THEN SAID THE JEWS, WILL HE KILL HIMSELF? BECAUSE HE SAID, WHI...
_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...
ΌΤΙ (G3754) вводит косвенную речь, ΆΠΟΘΑΝΕΪ́ΣΘΕ _fut. ind. med. (dep.), см._ John 8:21. Умерев во грехе, человек теряет возможность покаяться (ВВС), ΠΙΣΤΕΎΣΗΤΕ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩ (G4100)...
DISCOURSE: 1652 DANGER OF REJECTING CHRIST John 8:24 : _If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins_. THE necessity of faith in Christ, in order to salvation, is not to be considered as...
IF YE BELIEVE NOT THAT I AM HE, &C.— That is, "The person whom I have represented myself to be." There is evidently in the original an ellipsis here to be supplied by comparing the passage with John 8...
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...
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. I SAID THEREFORE UNTO YOU, THAT YE SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS: FOR IF YE BELIEV...
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...
I AM _he_] viz. the Messiah, and the Saviour. He alone can say, 'Thy sins be forgiven thee.'...
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...
I SAID THEREFORE UNTO YOU, THAT YE SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS. — He now further explains what He meant by these words in John 8:21. The words, as they are twice repeated in this verse, differ in two parti...
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...
εἶπον οὖν … ὑμῶν. “Therefore said I unto you, ye shall die in your sins.” The emphatic word is now ἀποθανεῖσθε (_cf._ John 8:12); the destruction is itself put in the foreground (Meyer, Holtzmann). “F...
_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...
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...
24._You shall die in your sins. _Having formerly employed the singular number, _in your sin_, he now resorts to the plural number,_in your sins; _but the meaning is the same, except that in the former...
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...
I SAID THEREFORE UNTO YOU,.... Because they were from beneath, and of the world, and discovered an earthly, worldly, carnal, yea, devilish disposition, in their conduct towards him: THAT YE SHALL DIE...
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am _he_, ye shall die in your sins. Ver. 24. _For if ye believe not, &c._] And yet Venator the Arminian saith,...
_Then said the Jews_ Showing at once the great perverseness of their disposition, and their contempt of his declaration; _will he kill himself?_ &c. Thus they made a jest of his threatening, and inste...
I AM HE; the Messiah....
Christ's going to the Father:...
I SAID THEREFORE UNTO YOU THAT YE SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS; FOR IF YE BELIEVE NOT THAT I AM HE, YES HALL DIE IN YOUR SINS....
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...
In the Greek it is only, IF YE BELIEVE NOT THAT I AM. Some refer this to Christ's Divine nature; (_ I am, _ is the name of God, EXODUS 3:14); but others rather think that Christ here speaketh of himse...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V This, then, is to be believed, according to Plato, though it is announced and spoken "without probable and necessary proofs," but in the Old and New Testament. ...
John 8:24 Therefore G3767 said G2036 (G5627) you G5213 that G3754 die G599 (G5695) in G1722 your...
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...
‘And he said to them “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. That is why I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am you w...
John 8:23-24. AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE FROM BENEATH; I AM FROM ABOVE: YE ARE OF THIS WORLD; I AM NOT OF THIS WORLD. I SAID THEREFORE UNTO YOU, THAT YE SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS; FOR IF YE SHALL NOT...
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...
FOR EXCEPT YE BELIEVE (εαν γαρ μη πιστευσητε). Negative condition of third class with εαν μη and ingressive aorist active subjunctive of πιστευω, "For unless ye come to believe."THAT I AM HE (οτ ε...
SINS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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...
BUT I COME FROM ABOVE. Jesus had showed _their_ sins to be the basis of separation, but they believed they could go anywhere he could go, unless he went to _some place_ for self-murder. In response to...
_I go My way, and ye shall seek Me, and shall die in your sins._ Sin here means the departure of the heart from God, general alienation from Him, and in John 8:24 the particular manifestations of such...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 8:24 I AM HE may simply mean “I am the Messiah.” However, John often uses words with a double meaning (see notes on 3:14; 4:10; 19:19
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...
. _said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins._ The sin of unbelief, and all your other sins, for there is no forgiveness of sin, save through faith in Christ, whom ye reject. _For if ye...
_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...
Acts 4:12; Hebrews 10:26; Hebrews 12:25; Hebrews 2:3; John 3:18;...
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...
If ye believe not that I AM — Here (as in John 8:58) our Lord claims the Divine name, I AM, Exodus 3:14. But the Jews, as if he had stopped short, and not finished the sentence, answered, Who art thou...