Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
John 8:33
They pretend to think that Jesus is alluding to their political bondage to the Romans. They indignantly deny the imputation of bondage. They declare themselves the superiors of their oppressors.
They pretend to think that Jesus is alluding to their political bondage to the Romans. They indignantly deny the imputation of bondage. They declare themselves the superiors of their oppressors.
Verse 33. _THEY ANSWERED_] That is, the other Jews who had not believed-the carping, cavilling Pharisees already mentioned; for the words cannot be spoken of the simple people who had already believed...
THEY ANSWERED HIM - Not those who believed on him, but some who stood by and heard him. WE BE ABRAHAM’S SEED - We are the children or descendants of Abraham. Abraham was not a slave, and they pretende...
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...
THEY ANSWERED. Probably not the Jews who believed, but the opposers in the throng. WE BE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND WERE NEVER IN BONDAGE. It was the proud boast of the Jews that they were descendants of A...
They answered him: "We are the descendants of Abraham and we have never been slaves to any man. How do you say: 'You will become free'?" Jesus answered them: "This is the truth I tell you--everyone wh...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
WERE NEVER. ANY MAN, &c. Have been in bondage to no one (App-105) at any time. Thus ignoring all historical facts. These were "the Jews" who believed in John 8:31, and thus proved themselves not "beli...
_They answered him_ Or, UNTO HIM, according to the best MSS. -They" must mean -the Jews who had believed Him" (John 8:31): it is quite arbitrary to suppose any one else. The severe words which follow...
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....
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...
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...
ἈΠΕΚΡΊΘΗΣΑΝ ΠΡῸΣ ΑΥ̓. _They answered_ UNTO HIM. The subject is οἱ πεπιστευκότες αὐτῷ Ἰ. (John 8:31): it is quite arbitrary to suppose any one else. The severe words which follow (John 8:44) are addres...
31. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed in him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed; 32. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33. They ans...
_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...
ΆΠΕΚΡΊΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ, _см._ John 8:14. ΔΕΔΟΥΛΕΎΚΑΜΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΔΟΥΛΕΎΩ (G1398) быть порабощенным, служить в качестве раба. _Perf._ с акцентом на настоящих ре...
WE BE ABRAHAM'S SEED, &C.— "Then some of those who had professed to believe in him taking it as a high affront, that he should speak as if he thought them to be slaves, said to him in a vaunting manne...
TRUTH BRINGS FREEDOM _Text 8:31-36_ 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples; 32 and ye shall know the truth, and the tr...
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...
They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? THEY ANSWERED HIM, WE BE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND WERE NEVER IN BONDAGE TO ANY MAN:...
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...
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...
THEY ANSWERED HIM — _i.e.,_ the Jews who had believed in Him (John 8:31). There is no indication that this answer was made by others standing near, nor would this supposition have been made but for th...
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...
But this announcement, instead of seeming to the Jews the culmination of all bliss, provokes even in the πεπιστευκότες (John 8:31) a blind, carping criticism: Σπέρμα … γενήσεσθε; we are the seed of Ab...
_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
THE SOURCE OF TRUE LIBERTY John 8:31-38 Sin is not a necessary part of our being. _The servant abideth not in the house for ever._ Your child is an integral part of the household; he has become one w...
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...
(h) They answered him, We be (i) Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? (h) Some of the multitude, not they that believed: for this is not the s...
EGREGIOUS BLINDNESS OF THE JEWS John 8:32-33. _“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They responded to Him, We are the seed of Abraham, and have never been in bondage to any on...
“ _They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never been slaves of any one; how sayest thou: you shall become free?_ 34. _Jesus answered them, Verily, verily I say to you that whosoever commit...
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)...
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_,...
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed: (32) And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (33) They answered...
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...
33._We are Abraham’s seed. _It is uncertain if the Evangelist here introduces the same persons who formerly spoke, (235) or others. My opinion is, that they replied to Christ in a confused manner, as...
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...
THEY ANSWERED HIM,.... Not the believing Jews, whom he peculiarly addressed, but the unbelieving Jews, who were present, and heard these things: WE BE ABRAHAM'S SEED; this the Jews always valued them...
They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Ver. 33. _Were never in bondage_] When yet they were scarcely ever out of bondag...
_They answered him_ Namely, the other Jews that were present, not those that believed, as appears by the whole tenor of the conversation; _We be Abraham's seed_ A person always free, and a peculiar fa...
ABRAHAM'S SEED; and therefore not servants, but freemen. WERE NEVER IN BONDAGE; they probably refer, not to their national servitudes, which were notorious to all; but to the civil freedom secured to...
THEY ANSWERED HIM, WE BE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND WERE NEVER IN BONDAGE TO ANY MAN; HOW SAYEST THOU, YE SHALL BE MADE FREE? Many of the Jews had indeed come to faith, but their minds were still held in the...
THE TRUE LIBERTY OF THE GOSPEL. John 8:31 Bondage and liberty:...
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...
30-36 Such power attended our Lord's words, that many were convinced, and professed to believe in him. He encouraged them to attend his teaching, rely on his promises, and obey his commands, notwiths...
How carnally doth a carnal heart understand spiritual mysteries! Thus Nicodemus, hearing of being _born again, _ grossly dreamed of entering into his mother's womb, and being born again. The woman of...
John 8:33 answered G611 (G5662) Him G846 are G2070 (G5748) Abrahams G11 descendants G4690 and G2532 have...
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 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...
‘They answered him, “We are Abraham's seed and have never been slaves to any man. How do you say that we will be made free?” ' As Jesus knew that they would His hearers bridled at His words. They pri...
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 8:33. THEY ANSWERED HIM, WE BE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND HAVE NEVER YET BEEN SLAVES TO ANY ONE: HOW SAYEST THOU, YE SHALL BECOME FREE? The promise ‘shall make you free' cannot but imply that now they h...
WE BE ABRAHAM'S SEED (Σπερμα Αβρααμ εσμεν). "We are Abraham's seed," the proudest boast of the Jews, of Sarah the freewoman and not of Hagar the bondwoman (Galatians 4:22). Yes, but the Jews came to...
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...
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...
WE ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM. Their faith was in their ancestor, not in God. See note on Matthew 3:9. WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ANYBODY'S SLAVES. The Jews had been held as slaves over six hundred years...
_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;...
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 answered Him_, &c. Christ in what He had said indirectly charged the Jews with ignorance and bondage. But as glorying in their descent from Abraham, they felt wounded; and putting aside the char...
_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...
Exodus 1:13; Exodus 1:14; Ezra 9:9; Genesis 15:13; John 19:25;...
Were never in bondage [δ ε δ ο υ λ ε υ κ α μ ε ν π ω π ο τ ε]. Rev., better, have never yet been in bondage; thus giving the force of the perfect tense, never up to this time, and of the pw, yet. In t...
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...
They — The other Jews that were by, (not those that believed,) as appears by the whole tenor of the conversation. We were never enslaved to any man — A bold, notorious untruth. At that very time they...
Observe here, How these carnal Jews understand all that our Saviour said, to be spoken in and after. carnal manner; when he spoke to them before, OF EATING HIS FLESH AND DRINKING HIS BLOOD, they under...