Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
John 8:7
So when they continued asking Him, He lifted up Himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
So when they continued asking Him, He lifted up Himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
JOHN 8:7 auvto,n … auvtoi/j {A} A few witnesses omit auvto,n as superfluous, while others replace auvtoi/j with the prepositional phrase pro.j auvtou,j. Neither reading commended itself to the Commi...
Verse John 8:7. _HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN_] αναμαρτητος, meaning the same kind of sin, adultery, fornication, c. Kypke has largely proved that the verb αμαρτανειν is used in this sense by the best Greek...
THEY CONTINUED ASKING HIM - They pressed the question upon him. They were determined to extort an answer from him, and showed a perseverance in evil which has been unhappily often imitated. IS WITHOU...
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. ...
PERICOPE ADULTERS. JOHN 7:53 TO JOHN 8:11. JESUS AND THE WOMAN ACCUSED OF SIN. The well-known story of the woman taken in adultery has no claim to be regarded as part of the original text of this gos...
HE LIFTED HIMSELF UP AND SAID. As they were determined not to be foiled they kept pressing the question, "What sayest thou?" until he arose, looked at them with. look that seemed to pierce their very...
And each of them went to his own house; but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he was again in the Temple precincts, and all the people came to him. He sat down and went on teachi...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
ASKING. App-134., LIFTED UP. Greek. _anakupto._ Only here, John 8:10; Luke 13:11; Luke 21:28. WITHOUT SIN. sinless. Greek. _anamartetos._ Compare App-128. Occ, nowhere else in the N.T. A STONE. the
_they continued asking_ They will not take the hint, whatever His gesture meant. _without sin_ The Greek word occurs nowhere else in N.T., but it is quite classical: it may mean either -free from the...
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...
1–11. The number of various readings in this section is very large, and we have not the data for constructing a satisfactory text....
ἈΝΈΚΥΨΕΝ ΚΑῚ ΕἾΠΕΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΙ͂Σ for ἀνακύψας εἶπε πρὸς αὐτούς, and ΠΡΩ͂ΤΟΣ ἘΠ' ΑΥ̓ΤῊΝ ΒΑΛΈΤΩ ΛΊΘΟΝ for πρ. τὸν λ. ἐπ' αὐτῇ β. 7. They will not take the hint; and therefore with marvellous skill He lifts t...
Ver. Jesus went to the mount of Olives. 2. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3. And the Scribes and Pharisees br...
_GO AND SIN NO MORE -- JOHN 8:1-11:_ Jesus spent the night in Mount Olives. Early the next morning the people were waiting for Him in the Temple. He did not disappoint them. He came to the Temple, sat...
ΈΠΈΜΕΝΟΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΠΙΜΈΝΩ (G1961) оставаться. _Impf._, "так как они продолжали" ΕΡΩΤΏΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΕΡΩΤΆΩ (G2065) спрашивать, ΆΝΈΚΥΨΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΑΚΎ...
HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG YOU, &C.— Alluding to the law, Deuteronomy 17:7 which ordered that the hands of the witnesses, by whose testimony an idolater was convicted, should be first upon him, and...
See the chapter comments for John 8:1-59....
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 8:1-11 We begin with the customary Analysis:— In this series of expositions of John’s Gospel we have sedulously avoided technical matters, preferring to confine...
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. SO WHEN THEY CONTINUED ASKING HIM, HE LIFTED UP HI...
41 Ever since the days of Moses the nation of Israel has been waiting for the Prophet Who was to be like him, and lead the nation out of worse than Egyptian bondage into the heritage of the kingdom. T...
WITHOUT SIN] Christ read their hearts, and under His searching glance all felt themselves sinners, if not against the letter, yet against the spirit of the seventh commandment: cp. Matthew 5:28. They...
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...
SO WHEN THEY CONTINUED ASKING HIM. — He would have avoided their question, and continued, as is here implied, for some time in the action of writing; but they will now interrupt that action. It seems...
CHAPTER 17 THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY. “And they went every man unto his own house: but Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the peopl...
The scribes, however, did not accept the silence of Jesus as an answer, but “went on asking Him”. For this use of ἐπιμένω with a participle _cf._ Acts 12:16, ἐπέμενεν κρούων; and see Buttmann's _N.T....
THE ACCUSERS SELF-CONDEMNED John 8:1-11 This passage has been the subject of much controversy, but there is no possibility of accounting for it except on the supposition that this incident really to...
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...
(2) So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. (2) Against hypocrites who are very severe judges...
We cannot with any propriety reprehend or condemn faults in others, if we ourselves be guilty of the same, or other great faults, St. Cyril, in Joan. --- See annotations on Matt. vii, ver. 1....
CHAPTER 3 THE ADULTEROUS WOMAN John 8:1-11. I merely insert this caption through courtesy to the English reader; but will be excused from the exposition, as this item is entirely absent from the orig...
The admirable, yet at the same time very simple, art of the answer of Jesus in John 8:7 consists in bringing back the question from the _judicial_ domain, where His adversaries were placing it, to the...
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery: and when they had set her in the midst, (4) They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. (5)...
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...
7._He who is without sin among you. _He said this according to the custom of the Law; for God commanded that the witnesses should, with their own hands, put malefactors to death, according to the sent...
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...
SO WHEN THEY CONTINUED ASKING HIM,.... For observing that he put himself in such a posture, they concluded that they had puzzled and perplexed him, and that he knew not what to say; and therefore they...
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. Ver. 7. _He that is without sin among you_] Not that...
_When they continued asking him_ That is, pressed him with great importunity to give an answer, thinking, no doubt, that they had him at a great advantage; _he lifted up himself, and_, without replyin...
LET HIM FIRST; DEUTERONOMY 17:7. Men are sometimes very forward to accuse others, and seek to have them punished, when they are themselves guilty of equal, and perhaps greater crimes. Should conscienc...
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...
1-11 Christ neither found fault with the law, nor excused the prisoner's guilt; nor did he countenance the pretended zeal of the Pharisees. Those are self-condemned who judge others, and yet do the s...
They will not let our Saviour alone, but importune him for an answer. He saith, HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN, LET HIM FIRST CAST A STONE AT HER. The law of God was, DEUTERONOMY 17:7, that in the execution o...
John 8:7 So G1161 when G5613 continued G1961 (G5707) asking G2065 (G5723) Him G846 Himself G352 ...
‘But when they continued asking him he lifted himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her”.' His next action is specific and underlines the words t...
John 8:7. BUT WHEN THEY CONTINUED ASKING HIM, HE LIFTED UP H imself AND SAID UNTO THEM, HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG YOU, LET HIM BE THE FIRST TO CAST THE STONE UPON HER. The scribes and Pharisees pre...
The almost unanimous voice of modem criticism pronounces the narrative before us to be no genuine part of the Gospel of John. The section is wanting in the oldest and most trustworthy MSS. of the Gosp...
WHEN THEY CONTINUED ASKING (ως επεμενον ερωτωντες). Imperfect active indicative of επιμενω (waiting in addition or still, επ, old verb) with supplementary active participle of ερωταω, to question. S...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
John 7:53. _And every man went unto his own house_. John 8:1. _Jesus went unto the mount of Olives._ That is, as every man went to his own house to rest, so Jesus found rest in secret prayer on the...
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...
AS THEY STOOD THERE. Do they think he is embarrassed? Do they think he has no answer? As they see him tracing figures on the ground, they _"close in"_ for the _kill,_ but Jesus is only giving them "en...
_And the Scribes and the Pharisees brought unto Him a woman taken in adultery_ THE SCENE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE It is probable that the hilarity and abandonment of the feast, which had grown to be a k...
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...
_When therefore they continued asking Him._ Because they did not see clearly what He had written, or pretended they did not. They therefore urge Him to reply explicitly to their captious question, bel...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 7:1. For the general exposition of this section see Homiletic Notes, pp. 233–235. John 7:2. EARLY IN THE MORNING (ὄρθρου).—St. John’s usual word is πρωῒ (John 20...
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 14:24; 1 Corinthians 14:25; Colossians 4:6; Deuteronomy 17:6;...
He that is without sin — He that is not guilty: his own conscience being the judge) either of the same sin, or of some nearly resembling it; let him — as a witness, cast the first stone at her....
(CF. ROMANS 13:4)— Did Jesus repudiate capital punishment in this text? PROBLEM: Passages like Romans 13:4 present a good case for capital punishment, for the passage says, “for it [the government] do...