John 8:58
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What does John 8:58 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Jesus said unto them,Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am."
What does John 8:58 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Jesus said unto them,Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am."
Verse John 8:58. _BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM._] The following is a literal translation of Calmet's note on this passage:-"I am from all eternity. I have existed before all ages. You consider in me only...
VERILY, VERILY - This is an expression used only in John. It is a strong affirmation denoting particularly the great importance of what was about to be affirmed. See the notes at John 3:5. BEFORE ABR...
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. (Jo...
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...
VERILY, VERILY,. SAY UNTO YOU, BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS,. AM. A solemn and official declaration preceded by" Verily, verily." The utterance is. remarkable one. It does not merely assert that he _was_ befor...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
WAS. came into existence: i.e. was born. I AM. See note on John 6:35....
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...
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...
ΓΕΝΈΣΘΑΙ _aor. inf. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться; появляться на свет (Morris). Обратите внимание на противопоставление ΈΓ ΕΙΜΊ, "Я есмь" (D. М. Ball, "J Am" in John's Gospel: Literary F...
BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM.— _"Before Abraham was born,_ I had a glorious existence with the Father; and _I am_ still invariably the same, and one with him." Our Lord here, in the strongest terms, asser...
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...
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, [ prin (G4250 ) Abraam (G11 ) genesthai (G1...
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 Gos...
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 w...
BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM. — Better, _Before Abraham was born, I am._ (Comp. Note on John 1:6; and see another striking instance in Luke 6:36, “Become ye merciful as your Father also is merciful.”) Her...
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...
_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 Hi...
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...
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I (y) am. (y) Christ, as he was God, was before Abraham: and he was the Lamb slain from the beginning of the world....
_Before Abraham was made, I am. [4] Christ here speaks of his eternal existence as God. St. Augustine shews this by these very words, I am. He does not say, before Abraham was made, I was made: becaus...
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...
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_,...
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...
58._Before Abraham was. _As unbelievers judge only from the appearance of the flesh, Christ reminds them that he has something greater and higher than human appearance, which is hidden from the senses...
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...
JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,.... Whether it will be believed or not, it is certainly fact: BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM; which is to be understood, not of his being in the purpos...
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. Ver. 58. _Before Abraham was, I am_] "I am that I am," in regard of mine eternal generation. And as mediator, "I am Jes...
_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...
I AM; this denotes eternal self-existence. Exodus 3:14; JOHN 1:1; John 1:3; Colossians 1:17; HEBREWS 1:6; Hebrews 1:8; REVELATION 1:8. As Jesus Christ is truly and eternally divine, his kindness, comp...
The attempt to kill the Lord:...
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...
Some will have the meaning to be, that Christ was before Abraham's time constituted Mediator; as he is said to be _the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,_ REVELATION 13:8: so 1 PETER 1:20. B...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians And how, again, could such an one declare: "Before Abraham was, I am? "[23] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV But the Word of God did not accept of the friendshi...
John 8:58 Jesus G2424 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 Most G281 assuredly G281 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 before G4250 Abraham G11 was G1096 (G5635) I G1473 AM G1510 (G5748) Verily - John 8:34,...
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 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...
BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS (πριν Αβρααμ γενεσθα). Usual idiom with πριν in positive sentence with infinitive (second aorist middle of γινομα) and the accusative of general reference, "before coming as to A...
John 8:58 The text is one of those rare passages in which Jesus Christ appears to stand upon His own dignity, in which the Lowly, the Humble, the Unresisting Son of man asserts His high origin, claim...
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...
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...
BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS BORN, I AM.' This is an _official declaration._ "I Was" would have shown priority, "I AM" shows _timeless existence!_ This identifies him with the "I AM" of the Old Testament. See n...
_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; Romans 6:16; Galatians 4:25; 2 Peter 2...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 8:58 Jesus claims to have been alive BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS. He does not mean that he is more than 2,000 years old. Rather, he uses the present tense I AM in speaking of existence more...
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...
_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...
Colossians 1:17; Exodus 3:14; Hebrews 1:10; Hebrews 13:8; Isaiah 43:13; Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 44:8; Isaiah 46:9; Isaiah 48:12; Isaiah 9:6;...
Was, I am [γ ε ν ε σ θ α ι, ε γ ω ε ι μ ι]. It is important to observe the distinction between the two verbs. Abraham's life was under the conditions of time, and therefore had a temporal beginning. H...
Before Abraham was I AM — Even from everlasting to everlasting. This is a direct answer to the objection of the Jews, and shows how much greater he was than Abraham....