Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 8:29
The Father hath not left me alone — Never from the moment I came into the world.
The Father hath not left me alone — Never from the moment I came into the world.
Verse 29. _THE FATHER HATH NOT LEFT ME ALONE_] Though ye shalt have power to put me to death, yet this shall not be because he hath abandoned me. No-he is ever with me, because I do that which please...
IS WITH ME - In working miracles, etc. HATH NOT LEFT ME ALONE - Though men had forsaken and rejected him, yet God attended him. THOSE THINGS THAT PLEASE HIM - See Matthew 3:17; “This is my beloved So...
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...
HE THAT SENT ME IS WITH ME. He always has. sense of the presence of the Father. He was not so much an ambassador from God, as "the Brightness of the Father's glory and the express image of his person...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
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...
WITH. Greek. _meta._ App-104. ALONE. Compare John 8:16. I DO ALWAYS, &c.. I do the things pleasing to Him always. The last word in the sentence in the Greek emphasized by the Figure of speech _Hyper...
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....
_the Father hath not left me alone_ Here again we have an aorist, not a perfect; - HE LEFT _Me not alone_" (-the Father" being omitted in the best MSS.). It will depend on the interpretation whether t...
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...
29. Omit (אBDLTX) ὁ πατήρ after ΜΌΝΟΝ (a gloss). 29. ἈΦΗ͂ΚΕΝ. It will depend on the interpretation whether the aorist or perfect is to be used in English. If it refers to God sending the Messiah into...
VER 28. THEN SAID JESUS TO THEM, WHEN YOU HAVE LIFTED UP THE SON OF MAN, THEN SHALL YOU KNOW THAT I AM HE, AND THAT I DO NOTHING OF MYSELF; BUT AS MY FATHER HAS TAUGHT ME, I SPEAK THESE THINGS. 29. AN...
_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...
ΠΈΜΨΑΣ _aor. act. part., см._ John 8:16. ΆΦΉΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ (G863) покидать. Обобщ. _aor._ ΑΡΕΣΤΆ _pl. от_ ΑΡΕΣΤΌΣ (G701), вербальное _adj. от_ ΑΡΈΣΚΩ доставлять удовольствие; "вещи,...
WHEN YE HAVE LIFTED UP THE SON OF MAN,— "When you have crucified me, you shall know both who I am, and who my Father is. The miracles accompanying my death, my resurrection from the dead, the effusion...
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...
And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. AND HE THAT SENT ME IS WITH ME: THE FATHER HATH NOT LEFT ME ALONE; FOR I DO ALWAYS T...
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...
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...
THE FATHER HATH NOT LEFT ME ALONE. — The Greek words mean exactly, _the Father_ (or, as the better MSS. read, without change of meaning, _He_)_ left Me not alone,_ and they are sometimes taken to refe...
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...
καὶ ὁ πέμψας … πάντοτε. His fidelity to the purpose of the Father that sent Him secured His perpetual presence with Him. By His entire self-abnegation and freedom from self-will He gave room to the Sp...
_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...
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...
THE CRUCIFIXION John 8:28-29. _“Then Jesus said, When you may lift up the Son of man, then you shall know that I am He; and I do nothing of Myself; but as the Father taught Me, these things I speak.”_...
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 therefore said to them_, _when you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself, but that I speak these things to you according to the teach...
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...
29._And he who hath sent me is with me. _He again boasts that God, under whose guidance and authority he does every thing, will assist him, so that he shall not labor in vain and to no purpose, as if...
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...
AND HE THAT SENT ME IS WITH ME,.... By virtue of that near union there is between them, they being one in nature, essence, power, and glory, and by the gracious, powerful, comfortable, assisting, and...
And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. Ver. 29. _And he that sent me is with me_] So that I shall not labour altogether in va...
_Then said Jesus, When ye have lifted up the Son of man_ From the earth on the cross; and have proceeded so far as to put him to a violent death, then, instead of seeing his cause and interest overbor...
AND HE THAT SENT ME IS WITH ME; THE FATHER HATH NOT LEFT ME ALONE; FOR I DO ALWAYS THOSE THINGS THAT PLEASE HIM....
The distinguishing sign:...
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...
I have the presence of God with me, as I am Mediator; the Father hath not sent me into the world to do his will, and left me alone without his presence; for I do his will; I drive no separate design f...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians For even Jesus Christ does all things according to the will of the Father, as He Himself declares in a certain place, "I do always those things that please Him."...
John 8:29 And G2532 sent G3992 (G5660) Me G3165 is G2076 (G5748) with G3326 Me G1700 Father...
“And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.” In spite of His rejection by them He wants them to know that He is conscious that the Father is continuall...
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...
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 8:29. AND HE THAT SENT ME IS WITH ME: HE LEFT ME NOT ALONE, BECAUSE I DO ALWAYS THE THINGS THAT ARE PLEASING TO HIM. The words, ‘I heard' (John 8:26), ‘taught' (John 8:28), point back to the past...
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...
IS WITH ME (μετ' εμου εστιν). The Incarnation brought separation from the Father in one sense, but in essence there is complete harmony and fellowship as he had already said (John 8:16) and will ex...
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 8:28. _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...
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...
HE HAS NOT LEFT ME ALONE. The Father was with him and in him. He was [and is] "the brightness of God's glory....
_When ye have lifted up the Son of Man._ --As instruments they would lift Him to the cross; as a result He would ascend to His throne. (_W. H. Van Doren, D. D._) CHRIST FORECASTING HIS DEATH AND DES...
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...
_And He that sent Me is with Me._ He adds this (says S. Chrysostom) lest He should be accounted inferior to the Father who taught Him. The one relates to the Incarnation (_dispensationem_), the other...
_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 2:1; 2 Timothy 4:17; 2 Timothy 4:22; Hebrews 10:5; Hebrews 4:15
The Father. The best texts omit. Alone. See ver. 16. Those things that please Him [τ α α ρ ε σ τ α α υ τ ω]. Literally, as Rev., the things that are pleasing to Him. Always [π α ν τ ο τ ε] closing t...
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...
That is, he that sent and commissioned me for the great work of redemption, he is continually with me, both to assist and to accept me,. doing every thing that is agreeable to his holy will and pleasu...