George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
John 8:38
The things that you have seen with your father. That is, you follow the suggestions of the devil, whom, (ver. 44.) in plain terms, he calls their father. (Witham)
The things that you have seen with your father. That is, you follow the suggestions of the devil, whom, (ver. 44.) in plain terms, he calls their father. (Witham)
JOHN 8:38 para. tw|/ patri, {B} The addition of mou after patri, and/or the addition of tau/ta as correlative to a[ appear to be natural explications that copyists would have been inclined to make in...
Verse 38. _I SPEAK THAT WHICH I HAVE SEEN_] I speak nothing but that unchangeable, eternal truth which I have received from the bosom of God. _YE DO THAT WHICH YE HAVE SEEN_] Instead of εωρακατε, _y...
I SPEAK ... - John 3:11. MY FATHER - God. YOUR FATHER - The devil. See John 8:44. To see here means to learn of. They had learned of or been taught by the devil, and imitated him....
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...
SPEAK THAT WHICH. HAVE SEEN WITH MY FATHER. Jesus was the Son; he had dwelt in the Father's house; he declared what he had seen and heard there; this they rejected, and did what they "had seen with t...
a "I know that you are the descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to find a way to kill me, because there is no room in you for my word. I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father. So...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
HAVE SEEN. Greek. _horao._ App-133. WITH. Greek. _para._ App-104. YE HAVE SEEN. All the texts read. ye have heard. But not the Syriac. See App-94. note 8, p. 136....
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...
_I speak_, &c. The text here is a little uncertain, but the following seems to have most authority; _I speak_ THE THINGS WHICH _I have seen with_(_My) Father: ye_ ALSO, THEREFORE, DO THE THINGS WHICH...
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....
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...
Ἃ ἘΓΏ for ἐγὼ ὅ. Omit μου after ΠΑΤΡΊ. Ἃ ἨΚΟΎΣΑΤΕ for ὃ ἑωράκατε and ΤΟΥ͂ ΠΑΤΡΌΣ for τῷ πατρὶ ὑμῶν (both for the sake of harmony with the first clause). 38. The text is somewhat uncertain. THE THINGS...
Ver 37. I know that you are Abraham's seed; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you. 38. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with yo...
_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...
ΈΏΡΑΚΑPERF. _ind. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть. _Perf._, верятно, предполагает, что у Иисуса раньше было видение, которое продолжается в настоящем (Brown), ΉΚΟΎΣΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ слышать,...
ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN _Text 8:37-40_ 37 I know that ye are Abraham's seed; yet ye seek to kill me, because my word hath not free course in you. 38 I speak the things which I have seen with my Father...
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...
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. I SPEAK THAT WHICH I HAVE SEEN WITH MY FATHER; AND YE DO THAT WHICH YE HAVE SEEN WITH YOUR FATHER...
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...
8:38 do (b-13) _ poieo_ ; usually 'practise' (see ch. 5.29), but it hardly suits here or in vers. 39,40; still it refers to habitually or characteristically doing, not a mere act....
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...
I SPEAK THAT WHICH I HAVE SEEN WITH MY FATHER. — Some of the older MSS. read “the” for “My,” but without change of sense. For the thought, comp. John 8:28, where we have the same connection between do...
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...
“And yet the word of Christ justly claimed acceptance, for it was derived from immediate knowledge of God,” Westcott. ἐγὼ ὃ [or ἃ ἐγὼ, as recent editors read] … ποιεῖτε. “What I have seen with my Fath...
_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
THE SOURCE OF TRUE LIBERTY John 8:31-38 Sin is not a necessary part of our being. _The servant abideth not in the house for ever._ Your child is an integral part of the household; he has become one w...
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...
SATANIC PATERNITY OF THE UNREGENERATE John 8:37-47. _“I know that ye are the seed of Abraham; but you seek to kill Me, because My Word has no place in you.”_ How sad the condition of those preachers a...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 30-50. 1. Whether the words of Jesus contained in these verses were spoken on the same day as those which precede (Meyer) or on the following day (Godet)...
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_,...
“ _I know indeed that you are Abraham's seed; but you seek to kill me, because my word makes no progress in you._ 38. _As for me, I speak that which I have seen with the Father;and you do the things w...
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed: (32) And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (33) They answered...
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...
38._I speak what I have seen with my Father. _He had already made frequent mention of _his Father_; and now, by an argument drawn from contrary things, he infers that they are enemies to God, and are...
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...
I SPEAK THAT WHICH I HAVE SEEN WITH MY FATHER,.... This is an aggravation of the sin of the Jews, in seeking to kill Christ, on account of his doctrine, since it was not his own, but his Father's; was...
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. Ver. 38. _And ye do_] Or, do ye that which ye have seen with your father, and so show yourselves the...
_I know that ye are Abraham's seed_ That ye are descended from Abraham, as Ishmael and Esau, and their posterity also were, I know; but what can that avail you, while you are so unlike Abraham, in you...
SEEN WITH MY FATHER; what is in accordance with the will of God the Father. YOUR FATHER; verse John 8:44....
I SPEAK THAT WHICH I HAVE SEEN WITH, MY FATHER; AND YE DO THAT WHICH YE HAVE SEEN WITH YOUR FATHER. In a very solemn manner, Jesus here proceeds to explain His statement regarding slavery or bondage....
True liberty:...
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...
37-40 Our Lord opposed the proud and vain confidence of these Jews, showing that their descent from Abraham could not profit those of a contrary spirit to him. Where the word of God has no place, no...
My Father is God; I declare unto you his mind and will; no uncertain things, but what I have seen with him, that is, what I certainly know to be his will. You declare by your actions who is your fathe...
John 8:38 I G1473 speak G2980 (G5719) what G3739 seen G3708 (G5758) with G3844 My G3450 Father...
“I speak the things which I have seen with my Father, and you also do the things that you have heard from your father.” Jesus now contrasted Himself with them enigmatically. He pointed out that He spo...
THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL (JOHN 8:31). Note how the argument is presented in stages as the case builds up against he Scribes and Pharisees. It had begun with the revelation...
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 8:38. I SPEAK THE THINGS WHICH I HAVE SEEN WITH THE FATHER: DO YE ALSO THEREFORE THE THINGS WHICH YE HEARD FROM THE FATHER. One last exhortation Jesus will offer before entirely giving up these ‘...
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...
WITH MY FATHER (παρα τω πατρ). Locative case of πατηρ and article used as possessive (common idiom), "by the side of my Father," picture of intimate fellowship like προς τον θεον (face to face with...
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....
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...
John 8:28. _Then said Jesus unto them;_ That is, to the Jews who were questioning and opposing him,- John 8:28. _When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do...
Christ thus spake to his adversaries. John 8:29. _And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone: for I do always those things that please him._ Brethren, what Christ could say, I...
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...
I TALK ABOUT. He was the Father's Son! In "spirit," they followed the Devil as their father....
_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;...
_I speak that which I have seen with My Father; and ye do that which ye have seen with your Father_ THE MARKS OF DIVINE AND DIABOLIC RELATIONSHIP Christ had admitted (John 8:37) that the Jews were t...
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...
_I speak_, &c. Ye not only speak, but do that which ye have learnt from your father, the devil, especially in seeking to kill Me, implying that Abraham was not their father. See this more clearly decl...
_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 John 3:8; John 12:49; John 12:50; John 14:10; John 14:24;...
Ye have seen. The best texts read hjkousate, ye heard....
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...