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John 8:57
Then said the Jews unto Him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?
Then said the Jews unto Him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?
JOHN 8:57 penth,konta e;th In an attempt to harmonize the statement more closely with Luke 3:23, a few witnesses (L 239 262 1355 1555 Chrysostom Ps-Athanasius) read tessera,konta...
Verse John 8:57. _THOU ART NOT YET FIFTY YEARS OLD_] Some MSS. read _forty_. The age of our blessed Lord has never been properly determined. Some of the primitive fathers believed that he was _fifty_...
FIFTY YEARS OLD - Jesus is supposed to have been at this time about the age of 33. It is remarkable that when he was so young they should have mentioned the number 50, but they probably designed to pr...
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...
THOU ART NOT YET FIFTY YEARS OLD, AND HAST THOU SOON ABRAHAM? They do not attempt to give his age, but. round period that will cover it. It had been about 2,000 years since the time of Abraham. Jesus...
"Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it and was glad." The Jews said to him: "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them: "This is the truth I t...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
_Then said the Jews_ Better. THEREFORE _said the Jews_. _Thou art not yet fifty years old_ The reading, -forty years," which Chrysostom and a few authorities give, is no doubt incorrect. It has arisen...
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....
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...
ΠΕΝΤΉΚΟΝΤΑ ἜΤΗ. The reading τεσσαράκοντα which Chrysostom and a few authorities give, is no doubt incorrect. It has arisen from a wish to make the number less wide of the mark; for our Lord was probab...
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...
ΈΏΡΑΚΑΣ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ, _см._ John 8:56....
THOU ART NOT YET FIFTY YEARN OLD,— Understanding what our Lord laid in a natural sense, the Jews thought he affirmed that he lived as man in the days of Abraham; which they considered as ridiculous, h...
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...
Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? THEN SAID THE JEWS UNTO HIM, THOU ART NOT YET FIFTY YEARS OLD. No inference, as Alford properly says, can...
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...
The Jews understand, or pretend to understand, our Lord to mean that He was alive in the time of Abraham!...
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...
THOU ART NOT YET FIFTY YEARS OLD. — There is no reason to doubt that we have the correct reading here, though some, from Chrysostom downward, have sought to avoid what seemed to them a difficulty, by...
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...
This, however, the Jews completely misunderstand. They think that by asserting that Abraham saw His day, Jesus means to say that His day and the life of Abraham on earth were contemporaneous. Πεντήκον...
_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 Him...
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 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...
“ _Whereupon the Jews said to him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and thou hast seen Abraham!_ 58. _Jesus said to them, Verily, verily I say unto you, Before Abraham came into being_, _I am._ ” Fro...
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_,...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 51-59. 1. In John 8:51 Jesus turns the discourse to the more positive side, and brings out one of the great thoughts presented in this Gospel, namely, tha...
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...
57._Thou art not yet fifty years old. _They endeavor to refute Christ’s saying, by showing that he had asserted what was impossible, when he _who was not yet fifty years of age makes himself equal to...
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 THE JEWS UNTO HIM, THOU ART NOT YET FIFTY YEARS OLD,.... One copy reads forty, but he was not that; no, not much more than thirty; not above two or three and thirty years old: the reason of...
Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Ver. 57. _Thou art not yet fifty_] No, nor much past thirty; and yet he had so spent himself in winning soul...
_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...
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...
Christ was at this time but three and thirty years old, and upward: they dream of Abraham's seeing him, and his seeing Abraham, with bodily eyes, of which Christ said nothing; that indeed had been a t...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III And that the Lord Himself was uncomely in aspect, the Spirit testifies by Esaias: "And we saw Him, and He had no form nor comeliness but His form was mea...
John 8:57 Then G3767 Jews G2453 said G2036 (G5627) to G4314 Him G846 are G2192 (G5719) yet...
The Judaisers therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”.' Their reply was over literal. They must have known something of what Jesus meant but they were pand...
THE CHALLENGE COMES TO ITS CLIMAX BY JESUS REVEALING THAT HE IS THE ‘I AM' (JOHN 8:48). In this final section Jesus deals with their insults by facing them up with the issues of life and death, and t...
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 8:57. THE JEWS THEREFORE SAID UNTO HIM. THOU ART NOT YET FIFTY YEARS OLD, AND HAST THOU SEEN ABRAHAM? The Jews understand ‘my day' to mean the time of His life; and His knowing that Abraham has w...
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...
THOU ART NOT YET FIFTY YEARS OLD (πεντηκοντα ετ ουπω εχεις). Literally, "Thou hast not yet fifty years." Not meaning that Jesus was near that age at all. It was the crisis of completed manhood (Num...
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 8:31. _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...
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...
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 ARE NOT EVEN FIFTY YEARS OLD? Fifty years old was the "prime of life," and anyone under that was "young" (1 Timothy 4:12_; Timothy was about thirty-five)._ They know it has been 2,000 years since...
_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;...
_Abraham is dead and the prophets_ ABRAHAM AND JESUS I. THE GREATNESS OF ABRAHAM: 1. The ancestor of the Jews. “Our father,” said they (John 8:53); “Your father,” conceded Christ (John 8:56). It wa...
_Thou art not yet_, &c. So that Abraham on his part could have seen Thee, and rejoiced at the sight. Irenæus hence infers that Christ lived fifty years on earth (_adv. Hær._ ii. 39, 40). But it is the...
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...
Thou art not yet fifty years old [π ε ν τ η κ ο ν τ α ε τ η ο υ π ω ε χ ε ι ς]. Literally, thou hast not yet fifty years. The age of completed manhood. Hast thou seen. Again misquoting the Lord's word...
Thou art not yet fifty years old — At the most. Perhaps the gravity of our Lord's countenance, together with his afflictions and labours, might make him appear older than he really was. Hast thou seen...
Observe here, 1. What. false and ridiculous construction the Jews make of our Saviour's words, as if he had affirmed that he had seen Abraham, and Abraham him, with bodily eyes: whereas Christ only as...