George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
John 8:21
I go my way, and you shall seek me, &c. See the foregoing chapter, ver. 34. (Witham)
I go my way, and you shall seek me, &c. See the foregoing chapter, ver. 34. (Witham)
Verse John 8:21. _THEN SAID JESUS AGAIN UNTO THEM_] He had said the same things to them the day before. See John 7:34. _YE SHALL SEEK ME_] When your calamities come upon you, ye shall in vain seek fo...
I GO MY WAY - See the notes at John 7:33. YE SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS - That is, you will seek the Messiah; you will desire his coming, but the Messiah that you expect will not come; and, as you have re...
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...
GO MY WAY,... YE SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS. We now pass to another stage in the discourse, either continued at that time, or resumed by. connection of thought, afterwards. His words are no longer confine...
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...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
GO MY WAY. withdraw Myself. SHALL. will. SINS. sin. See App-128. The sin of rejecting Him. CANNOT. are not (Greek. _ou)_ able to....
_Then said Jesus again unto them_ The name -Jesus" should be omitted both here and in the preceding verse (see on John 6:14), and -then" should be THEREFORE (see on John 6:45; John 6:53;...
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....
20, 21. Omit (אBDLT) ὁ Ἰησοῦς: comp. John 3:2; John 4:46; John 6:14....
ΕἾΠΕΝ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ΠΆΛΙΝ. _He said_ THEREFORE _again_. The ‘therefore’ does not compel us to place what follows on the same day with what precedes; ‘therefore’ merely signifies that, as no one laid hands on...
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 21. THEN SAID JESUS AGAIN TO THEM, I GO MY WAY, AND YOU SHALL SEEK ME, AND SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS: WHITHER I GO, YOU CANNOT COME. 22. THEN SAID THE JEWS, WILL HE KILL HIMSELF? BECAUSE HE SAID, WHI...
_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...
ΎΠΆΓΩ (G5217) _praes. ind. act._ уходить. _Fut. praes._ относится к Его смерти (Carson), ΖΗΤΉΣΕΤΕ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΖΗΤΈΩ (G2212) искать; здесь в _знач._ следовать, ΆΠΟΘΑΝΕΪ́ΣΘΕ _fut. ind. med. ...
DISCOURSE: 1651 MEETNESS FOR HEAVEN NECESSARY John 8:21. _Whither I go ye cannot come_. THE generality of men conceive that there is no difficulty in securing heaven: and hence they use no efforts to...
I GO MY WAY, AND YE SHALL SEEK ME, &C.— Our Lord had said this to them in a former discourse, Ch. John 7:34 and repeated it now, that it might make the deeper impression upon them: his meaning here se...
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...
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. THEN SAID JESUS AGAIN UNTO THEM, I GO MY WAY, AND YE SHALL SEEK ME, AND...
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...
I GO MY WAY (by death), AND YE SHALL SEEK ME (vainly in your misfortunes as your deliverer), AND SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS (RV 'sin') (because you refuse to believe on Me as your Saviour): cp. John 7:34....
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...
[(b) _Jesus is Light_ (_continued_). (_β_) His return to the Father misunderstood by the Jews, and explained by Him (John 8:21).] (21) THEN SAID JESUS AGAIN UNTO THEM. — The best MSS. omit the word...
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...
_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...
Εἶπεν οὖν πάλιν. On another occasion, but whether the same day (Origen) or not we do not know, although, as Lücke points out, the αὐτοῖς favours Origen's view, Jesus said: Ἐγὼ ὑπάγω … ἐλθεῖν. This rep...
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...
(8) 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. (8) Because men naturally abhor heavenly things, no man can be a fit...
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...
“ _Jesus said therefore to them again_, _I go away and you shall seek me and you shall die in your sin; whither I go, you cannot come._ 22. _The Jews therefore said, will he kill himself? for he said,...
VV. 21 admonishes the hearers of the importance of the present hour for the people and for each individual: Jesus, their only Saviour, is to be with them only for a little while longer. When once they...
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...
_SEEKING IN VAIN_ ‘We shall seek Me, and shall die in your sins.’ John 8:21 This verse contains a thought so deep that we cannot fathom it. We learn _ that it is possible to seek Christ in vain_. O...
21._I go. _Perceiving that he is doing no good among these obstinate men, he threatens their destruction; and this is the end of all those who reject the Gospel. For it is not thrown uselessly into th...
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 JESUS AGAIN UNTO THEM,.... It may be, immediately after he had said the above words; or rather some time after, it may be on the same day: I GO MY WAY; meaning, the way of all flesh, or tha...
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. Ver. 21. _Ye shall die in your sins_] A heavy doom, the very door to damn...
_Then said Jesus again_ Probably in the same place where the preceding discourse was pronounced; and still confiding in the protection of Divine Providence; _I go my way_ That is, I shall speedily go...
MY WAY; chap John 7:33....
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....
Christ's going to the Father:...
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 greatest part of what is said here, was said by our Saviour before, 1 THESSALONIANS 7:34; (see the explication of it there); only here, instead of _ye shall not find me, _ is, YE SHALL DIE IN YOUR...
John 8:21 Then G3767 Jesus G2424 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 again G3825 I G1473 away G5217 ...
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...
‘He said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will search for me and die in your sin, for where I am going you cannot come”.' ‘He said therefore again --'. We do not know how long after...
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...
John 8:21. HE SAID THEREFORE AGAIN UNTO THEM, I GO, AND YE SHALL SEEK ME, AND IN YOUR SIN YE SHALL DIE: WHITHER I GO, YE CANNOT COME. The conflict of Jesus with His opponents has now passed into a hig...
AGAIN (παλιν). Probably παλιν (again) in verse John 8:12 refers to a day after the feast is over since the last day is mentioned in John 7:37. So then here again we probably move on to another day s...
SINS (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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...
YOU CANNOT GO WHERE I AM GOING. Jesus will return to the Father, but they will be unable to follow, because they will die in their sins through _unbelief._ Compare John 7:33-36....
_I go My way, and ye shall seek Me, and shall die in your sins._ Sin here means the departure of the heart from God, general alienation from Him, and in John 8:24 the particular manifestations of such...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 8:21 WHERE I AM GOING. Heaven, in the presence of the Father. ⇐ ⇔
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...
_Jesus therefore said to them again._ (1.) Some think that "therefore" only indicates the beginning of a new discourse. (2.) Origen thinks it indicates that what follows was spoken by Christ at the 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...
1 Corinthians 15:17; 1 Corinthians 15:18; 1 Kings 18:10; 2 Kings 2:16;...
Then [ο υ ν]. Properly, therefore, connecting the fact of Jesus ' continuing to speak with His freedom from arrest. Said Jesus. Omit Jesus, and read, He said therefore. Go away [υ π α γ ω]. Withdraw...
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...
Observe here,. dreadful threatening denounced by Christ against the obstinate and unbelieving Jews. YE SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS; that is, in the guilt of your sins, under the power, and undergoing the p...