Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
John 8:59
Going through the midst of them, and so passed by] RV omits these words.
Going through the midst of them, and so passed by] RV omits these words.
JOHN 8:59 i`erou/ {A} The true text almost certainly closes with i`erou/, which is attested by î66, 75 a* B D W Q* ita, b, c, d, e, ff2, l vg syrs copsa, bomss, a...
Verse John 8:59. _THEN TOOK THEY UP STONES_, c.] It appears that the Jews understood him as asserting his _Godhead_ and, supposing him to be a blasphemer, they proceeded to _stone him_, according to t...
THEN TOOK THEY UP STONES - It seems they understood him as blaspheming, and proceeded, even without a form of trial, to stone him as such, because this was the punishment prescribed in the law for bla...
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 TOOK UP STONES TO STONE HIM. They regarded his language blasphemy. If he had been only. man it would have been. Hence, in. sudden rage, without waiting for. trial, they sought to inflict the pen...
"Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it and was glad." The Jews said to him: "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them: "This is the truth I t...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
TOOK... UP STONES. And thus would murder the great Prophet Himself. Compare John 10:31; John 10:39 and Matthew 23:31; Matthew 23:37. stones, i.e. heav
_Then took they up stones_ Or, THEREFORE _took they up stones_, i.e. in consequence of His last words. They see clearly what He means. He has taken to Himself the Divine Name and they prepare to stone...
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....
59. Omit διελθὼν διὰ μέσου αὐτῶν καὶ παρῆγεν οὔτω after ἹΕΡΟΥ͂ (an addition from John 9:1 combined with Luke 4:30) with א1BD against א3A. Other MSS. have the addition in another form. No English Versi...
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 1A. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD,...
_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...
ΉΡΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ Α'ΊΡΩ (G142) поднимать, подбирать. Возможно, они подобрали камни, которые использовались для строительства храма (ВВС), ΒΆΛΩΣΙΝ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΒΆΛΛΩ (G906) бросать. _Co...
THEN TOOK THEY UP STONES— The Jews, thinking the Lord Jesus a blasphemer, because he made himself not only greater than Abraham, but equal with God, Ch. John 5:18 fell into a violent rage, as Dr. Clag...
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...
Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. THEN TOOK THEY UP STONES TO CAST AT HIM - precisely a...
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...
THEN TOOK THEY UP STONES TO CAST AT HIM. — At last the meaning of His words flashes upon them. They had heard this I AM before (John 8:24) without perceiving that in it He applied to Himself the name...
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...
What the Jews thought of the assertion appeared in their action: ἦραν … αὐτόν. Believing that He was speaking sheer blasphemy and claiming equality with the great “I Am,” they sought to stone Him. For...
_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...
(21) Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. (21) Zeal without knowledge eventually breaks out i...
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...
VER. 59. “ _Thereupon, they took up stones to stone him; but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple._ ” In the face of this reply, there was indeed nothing left to the Jews except to worship or...
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_,...
REFLECTIONS Precious Lord Jesus! may my soul gaze with rapture on every feature of thy divine Person, while by faith I behold thee, as in this Chapter, pardoning the poor Adulteress; and manifesting...
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...
59._Then they took up stones. _There is reason to believe that they did this, as if Christ ought to be stoned according to the injunction of the Law, (Leviticus 24:16.) Hence we infer how great is the...
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...
THEN THEY TOOK UP STONES TO CAST AT HIM,.... Supposing that he had spoken blasphemy; for they well understood that he, by so saying, made himself to be the eternal God, the unchangeable Jehovah. Shoul...
Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. Ver. 59. _Then took they up stones_] This is _merces mun...
_Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day_ Ηγαλλιασατο ινα ιδη την ημεραν, _exulted with desire, to see my day._ “The words ινα ιδη, _that he might see_, immediately following the verb, show,” as Dr...
STONES TO CAST AT HIM; because he, being man, claimed to be also God. Romans 9:5....
The attempt to kill the Lord:...
THEN TOOK THEY UP STONES TO CAST AT HIM; BUT. JESUS HID HIMSELF, AND WENT OUT OF THE TEMPLE, GOING THROUGH THE MIDST OF THEM, AND SO PASSED BY. The saying of Jesus that the believer in Him was sure of...
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...
THEN TOOK THEY UP STONES TO CAST AT HIM; as they also did, 1 THESSALONIANS 5:31. It is vain to inquire where they had stones in the temple; they might be repairing some part of it, or some parts of it...
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus And as He was capable of being handled and touched, so again did He, in a non-apprehensible form, pass through the midst of those who sought to injure Him...
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‘They took up stones therefore to hurl at Him. But Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple. Unlike many moderns the Judaisers understood His meaning precisely, and in fury they picked up stones 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 8:59. THEY TOOK UP STONES THEREFORE THAT THEY MIGHT CAST THEM UPON HIM; BUT JESUS HID HIMSELF, AND WENT FORTH FROM THE TEMPLE-COURTS. The Jews were enraged at what they considered blasphemy, and...
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...
THEY TOOK UP STONES THEREFORE (ηραν ουν λιθους). First aorist active indicative of αιρω, inferential use of ουν. The time for argument had past.TO CAST AT HIM (ινα βαλωσιν επ' αυτον). Final claus...
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....
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...
THEY PICKED UP STONES TO THROW AT HIM. To them, what he just said was blasphemy. It would have been - if he was _only_ human. But he was the Logos (John 1:1-3)! He hid himself, because it was not yet...
_Then took they up stones to cast at Him._ Stones of the visible Temple cast at the cornerstone of the Temple of God. (_W. H. Van Doren, D. D._) THE JEWS AND JESUS Followeth now the issue of this lo...
_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...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 8:59 PICKED UP STONES. See note on Acts 7:58. Stoning was the punishment for blasphemy (Leviticus 24:16;...
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...
_Then they look up_, &c., as a blasphemer, who placed Himself above Abraham, and made Himself equal to God. Blasphemers were ordered to be stoned (Lev 24:16). It is clear that these Jews were not thos...
_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 Kings 6:18; Acts 7:57; Acts 8:39; Acts 8:40; Genesis 19:11;...
Going through the midst of them, and so passed by. The best texts omit....
Then they took up stones — To stone him as a blasphemer; but Jesus concealed himself — Probably by becoming invisible; and so passed on — With the same ease as if none had been there....