Geneva Study Bible Commentary
John 8:19
(6) Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
(6) No man can know God except in Christ alone.
(6) Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
(6) No man can know God except in Christ alone.
Verse John 8:19. _YE NEITHER KNOW ME_, c.] Ye know neither the Messiah, nor the God that sent him. _IF YE HAD KNOWN ME_] If ye had received my teaching, ye would have got such an acquaintance with t...
WHERE IS THY FATHER? - This question was asked, doubtless, in derision. Jesus had often given them to understand that by his Father he meant God, John 5:6; They professed to be ignorant of this, and p...
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. ...
JOHN 8. FURTHER CONTROVERSY IN JERUSALEM. John 8:12. The Light of the World; Discourse in the Treasury. If we remove the _Pericope adulterai_ (John 7:53 to John 8:11, clearly a later addition, though...
WHERE IS THY FATHER? This question is asked, not for information, but in. scornful spirit. They could not see his Father, therefore they disputed his words. The Savior strikes at the root of their di...
So Jesus again continued to speak to them. "I am the Light of the World, he said. "He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but he will have the light of life." So the Pharisees said to him: "You...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
NEITHER... NOR. Greek. _oute,_ compound of ou. App-105. MY FATHER. See note on John 2:16. IF.. true hypothesis. App-118. SHOULD. would....
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....
_Then said they They said_ THEREFORE. _Where is thy Father?_ They do not ask -who" but -where;" they know well enough by this time the meaning of Christ's frequent reference to -Him that sent me:" Joh...
ΠΟΥ͂ ἘΣΤΊΝ. They do not ask ‘who’ but ‘where;’ they know well enough by this time the meaning of Christ’s frequent reference to ‘Him that sent Me:’ John 5:23-24; John 5:30; John 5:37-38;...
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 19. THEN SAID THEY TO HIM, WHERE IS YOUR FATHER? JESUS ANSWERED, YOU NEITHER KNOW ME, NOR MY FATHER: IF YOU HAD KNOWN ME, YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MY FATHER ALSO. 20. THESE WORDS SPOKE JESUS IN THE T...
_JESUS IS THE LIGHT FOR THE WORLD -- JOHN 8:12-20:_ Those who live in sin are walking in darkness. Jesus said, "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall...
ΉΔΕΙΤΕ _plperf. ind. act. от_ ΟΊΔΑ знать (_см._ John 8:14). Plperf. _ind._ в _conj._, противоречащем факту....
IF YE HAD KNOWN ME, &C.— "If you had any just notions of _me,_ you would know who it is that I call _my Father;_ that is to say, if you knew me to be the Messiah, you would know that my Father is God....
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD _Text 8:12-20_ 12 Again therefore Jesus spake 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 lif...
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...
Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. THEN SAID THEY UNTO HIM, WHERE IS THY FATHE...
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...
THEN SAID THEY UNTO HIM, WHERE IS THY FATHER? — The words seem to be asked in scorn. “You speak of two witnesses. We accept you as one. Where is the other? He should be present before us if his eviden...
CHAPTER 18 CHRIST THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. “Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of...
_Jesus proclaims Himself the Light of the World_....
THE TWOFOLD WITNESS John 8:12-20 On either side of the Temple court stood a huge golden candelabrum. On the first and each succeeding night of the week of the Feast of Tabernacles these were lit, and...
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...
Where is thy Father? They knew well enough by other discourses, that he had called and declared God to be his Father; but they had a mind to make him own it again, that they might accuse him as guilty...
WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT John 8:17-20. _“And it has been written in your law, That the testimony of two people is true._ [Deuteronomy 19:15] _I am the one testifying concerning Myself, and the One who se...
VER. 19. _“They said to him therefore, Where is thy father? Jesus answered, You know neither me nor my Father; if you knew me, you would know my Father also.” _ Therefore: “In consequence of this decl...
2. JESUS, THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD: 8:12-20. We find in this section: 1. A testimony (John 8:12); 2. An objection (John 8:13); 3. The answer of Jesus (John 8:14-19); 4. An historical notice ...
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. (13) The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Th...
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...
19._Where is thy father _? There can be no doubt whatever, that it was in mockery that they inquired about _his Father _For not only do they, with their wonted pride, treat contemptuously what he had...
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 SAID THEY UNTO HIM, WHERE IS THY FATHER?.... The Persic version adds, "show [him] unto us": produce this witness boasted of, let us see him; this they said in a sneering, taunting, and insulting...
Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. Ver. 19. _If ye had known me, &c._] For milk...
_Ye judge after the flesh_ As the flesh, that is, corrupt nature, dictates. The same carnal prejudices still prevail in the minds of the Jews, and prevent their reception of Christ; they laying it dow...
IF YE HAD KNOWN ME-KNOWN MY FATHER ALSO; the union between him and his Father was such, that to know the one was also to know the other. Compare chap John 14:9-10. We may have the Bible and all the me...
An appeal to the Law of the Jews:...
THEN SAID THEY UNTO HIM, WHERE IS THY FATHER? JESUS ANSWERED, YE NEITHER KNOW ME NOR MY FATHER; IF YE HAD KNOWN ME, YE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MY FATHER ALSO....
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...
17-20 If we knew Christ better, we should know the Father better. Those become vain in their imaginations concerning God, who will not learn of Christ. Those who know not his glory and grace, know no...
Thou talkest much of thy Father, where is he? We know no father which thou hast but the carpenter, Joseph; we do not look upon him as so credible a witness in the case, as to take his testimony in suc...
John 8:19 Then G3767 said G3004 (G5707) Him G846 Where G4226 is G2076 (G5748) Your G4675 Father...
‘They therefore said to him, “Where is your Father?” ' They responded to His challenge by putting the question, ‘where is your father?'. It may well be that they had mistaken His meaning and were genu...
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 8:19. THEY SAID THEREFORE UNTO HIM, WHERE IS THY FATHER? If He is to add His witness to Thine, let Him appear and bear His testimony. The words are those of men who will not seek to enter into th...
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...
WHERE IS THY FATHER? (που εστιν ο πατηρ σου;). "The testimony of an unseen and unheard witness would not satisfy them" (Vincent). Bernard understands the Pharisees to see that Jesus claims God the F...
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...
WHERE IS YOUR FATHER? They challenge him to produce this unseen witness. They thought in terms of a human father (John 8:27). YOU KNOW NEITHER ME NOR MY FATHER. Those who reject Christ show that they...
_Then spake Jesus again unto them_ THE CONNECTION OF CHRIST’S DISCOURSE WITH THE PREVIOUS INCIDENT AND THE FEAST The feast of tabernacles was over. The water of Siloah was no more poured out by the...
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...
_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...
1 Corinthians 15:34; 1 John 5:20; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 John 1:9;...
Where. The testimony of an unseen and unheard witness would not satisfy them....
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...
Then said they to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered — Showing the perverseness of their question; and teaching that they ought first to know the Son, if they would know the Father. Where the Fa...