Geneva Study Bible Commentary
John 8:27
(11) They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
(11) Even the contempt of Christ results in his glory: and this thing his enemies will eventually feel to their great pain.
(11) They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
(11) Even the contempt of Christ results in his glory: and this thing his enemies will eventually feel to their great pain.
THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT - They knew not, or they were unwilling to receive him as a messenger from God. They doubtless understood that he meant to speak of God, but they were unwilling to acknowledge that...
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...
THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT THAT HE SPAKE OF THE FATHER. They were so pre-occupied with thoughts of earthly things that they did not perceive what is so plain to us, that he declared that he would not speak h...
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...
UNDERSTOOD NOT. did not get to know. App-132. See note on John 1:10. SPAKE. was speaking. Not "saying", as in John 8:26. FATHER. See note on John 1:14....
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....
_They understood not that he spake_ Better, they PERCEIVED not that He WAS SPEAKING. This statement of the Evangelist has seemed to some so unaccountable after John 8:18, that they have attempted to m...
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...
ΟΥ̓Κ ἜΓΝΩΣΑΝ. _They_ PERCEIVED _not that He_ WAS SPEAKING. This statement of the Evangelist has seemed to some so unaccountable after John 8:18, that they have attempted to make his words mean somethi...
VER 25. THEN SAID THEY TO HIM, WHO ARE YOU? AND JESUS SAID TO THEM, EVEN THE SAME THAT I SAID TO YOU FROM THE BEGINNING. 26. I HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY AND TO JUDGE OF YOU: BUT HE THAT SENT ME IS TRUE;...
_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...
ΈΓΝΩΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать; здесь в _знач._ "полностью признавать" ΈΛΕΓΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, беседовать о чем-л....
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...
_THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT THAT HE SPAKE TO THEM OF THE FATHER._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT THAT HE SPAKE (better, _was speaking_) TO THEM OF THE FATHER. — We have seen in Note on John 8:21 that a new discourse commences there, and that the hearers are not necessarily the...
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...
His hearers did not identify “Him that sent me” with “the Father”: Οὐκ ἔγνωσαν … ἔλεγεν....
_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...
_Now they, &c. Some of the more ignorant among the Jews understood not Christ when he clearly enough signified that he was equal to God, and of one and the same nature; but at other times they that he...
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...
“ _I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you; but he who sent me is worthy of belief, and what I have heard from him_, _that do I speak to the world._ 27. _They understood not that he sp...
VER. 27. Criticism declares the want of understanding of the Jews which is mentioned in John 8:27 impossible. Can those of whom John speaks, then, be, as _Meyer_ thinks, new hearers who had not been p...
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...
27._They did not know that he spoke to them about the Father. _Hence we see how stupid those men are whose understandings are possessed by Satan. Nothing could be more plain than that they were summon...
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 UNDERSTOOD NOT THAT HE SPAKE TO THEM OF THE FATHER. That sent him, and who was true and faithful to all he had said, whether in a way of promise, or threatening; such was their stupidity, that th...
They understood not that he spake to them of the Father. Ver. 27. _They understood not_] Though he cited them to God's dreadful tribunal, and threatened them with his judgment. The devil had strangel...
_Then said they, Who art thou?_ This question they ask in derision, and not with any desire to be instructed. _And Jesus saith, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning_ Namely, of my pub...
Christ's going to the Father:...
THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT THAT HE SPAKE TO THEM OF THE FATHER. Jesus did not permit Himself to be disconcerted or in any way influenced by the enmity which was manifested in their bearing nor by the angry t...
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...
The Jews (as we are told) used to call God THE FATHER, in a way of eminency: they understood that he spake to them of his Father; but they would not understand when he spake to them of his Father, or...
John 8:27 not G3756 understand G1097 (G5627) that G3754 spoke G3004 (G5707) them G846 Father G3962...
‘They did not perceive that he spoke to them of the Father.' John comments, ‘they did not understand that He spoke to them of the Father'. The problem was that they were so set in their own arguments...
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...
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 8:27. THEY PERCEIVED NOT THAT HE SPAKE TO THEM OF THE FATHER. This statement of the Evangelist is very remarkable; and, as it is so different from anything we might have expected, its importance...
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 PERCEIVED NOT (ουκ εγνωσαν). Second aorist active indicative of γινωσκω. "Preoccupied as they were with thoughts of an earthly deliverer" (Westcott) and prejudiced against recognizing Jesus as...
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...
THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND. Their minds were so filled with this world, that they had no interest in spiritual things. They would not believe that _their_ God was _his_ Father....
_Then said they unto Him, Who art Thou?_ …Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning. By thus expressing Himself, Jesus evidently declared Himself to be the expected One. He avoided, howev...
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 knew not,_ &c. For Jesus spake covertly and obscurely, for fear of exciting the hatred of the Pharisees. But some of the more acute of them began to suspect the true meaning of His words, though...
_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 Corinthians 4:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Isaiah 42:18; Isaiah 59:10;...
They understood [ε γ ν ω σ α ν]. Perceived, as Rev. He spake. Imperfect. Was speaking would be much better....
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 understood not — That by him that sent him he meant God the Father. Therefore in John 8:28 he speaks plainly of the Father, and again claims the Divine name, I AM....