Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 8:43
Ye cannot — Such is your stubbornness and pride, hear — Receive, obey my word. Not being desirous to do my will, ye cannot understand my doctrine, John 7:17.
Ye cannot — Such is your stubbornness and pride, hear — Receive, obey my word. Not being desirous to do my will, ye cannot understand my doctrine, John 7:17.
Verse 43. _WHY DO YE NOT UNDERSTAND MY SPEECH?_] την λαλιαν την εμην, _This my mode of speaking _- when illustrating spiritual by natural things: λαλια refers to the manner of speaking; λογος, to the...
WHY DO YE NOT ... - My meaning is clear, if you were disposed to understand me. EVEN BECAUSE YE CANNOT HEAR MY WORD - The word “hear” in this place is to be understood in the sense of bear or tolerate...
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...
39-43. ABRAHAM IS OUR FATHER. To Christ's allusion to their father they again assert that they are Abraham's offspring. This might be true according to the flesh, but spiritually they had another fat...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
UNDERSTAND. get to know. App-132. SPEECH. Referring to the _form_ of the discourse. HEAR. Hebrew idiom. understand, receive, or believe, as in John 9:27; John 10:3; John 12:47;...
_my speech … my word_ -Speech" is the outward _expression_, the _language_used; -thy speech bewrayeth thee" (Matthew 26:73; comp. Mark 14:70). Besides these two passages the word for -speech" is used...
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...
Τ. ΛΑΛΙᾺΝ Τ. ἘΜ … Τ. ΛΌΓΟΝ Τ. ἘΜ. See on John 8:31. Λαλιά is the _outward expression_, the language used: ἡ λαλιά σου δῆλόν σε ποιεῖ (Matthew 26:73), ἡ λαλιά σου ὁμοιάζει (Mark 14:70). Elsewhere λαλιά...
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 41. THEN SAID THEY TO HIM, WE BE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION; WE HAVE ONE FATHER, EVEN GOD. 42. JESUS SAID TO THEM, IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER YOU WOULD LOVE ME: FOR I PROCEEDED FORTH AND CAME FROM GOD;...
_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...
ΛΑΛΙΆ (G2981) речь. Указывает на форму выражения, внешнее строение речи (Morris), ΓΙΝΏΣΚΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать; здесь в _знач._ "признавать" или "принимать" ΛΌΓΟΣ (G3056) сл...
WHY DO YE NOT UNDERSTAND MY SPEECH, &C.?— The latter clause of this verse may likewise be translated and pointed interrogatively; _Why do ye not understand my speech,_ λαλιαν,— the spiritual stile tha...
SATAN'S CHILDREN _Text 8:41-47_ 41 Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Fat...
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...
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. WHY DO YE NOT UNDERSTAND MY SPEECH? EVEN BECAUSE YE CANNOT HEAR MY WORD: - q.d., 'If ye had anything of His moral image, as...
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...
8:43 word. (a-13) _ Logos_ . see Hebrews 6:1 ....
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...
They misunderstood his expressions (SPEECH), because the subject-matter of His discourse (WORD) was altogether above them. He was speaking of spiritual things which are spiritually discerned....
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...
WHY DO YE NOT UNDERSTAND MY SPEECH,... MY WORD. — The distinction between “speech” (the form) and “word” (the matter which was spoken) is rightly preserved. Comp. John 12:48, “the word that I have spo...
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...
_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
THE TEST OF SONSHIP John 8:39-47 Godly ancestors and parents will avail nothing, unless we are animated by their spirit and do their works. There were in the old world two families that ran in paral...
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...
Why do ye not understand my (k) speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word. (k) Or, language: as though he said, "You do not understand what I say any more than if I spoke in a strange and unknown...
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_,...
VV. 41B-43. “ _They said therefore to him: We are not children born in fornication; we have only one father, God._ 42. _Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me; for I came for...
VER. 43. Why then does all this escape them? How does it happen, in particular, that they do not distinguish the tone, and, so to speak, the heavenly _timbre_ of his _speech?_ Λαλία, speech, differs f...
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...
43._Why do you not understand my language? _In this passage, he reproaches the Jews with their obstinacy, which was so great, that _they could not even endure to hear him speak _Hence he infers, that...
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...
WHY DO YE NOT UNDERSTAND MY SPEECH?.... Language, idiom, dialect, and form of speaking, in a figurative way; for they did not know what he meant by liberty, and bondage, and by having another father t...
Why do ye not understand my speech? _even_ because ye cannot hear my word. Ver. 43. _Why do ye not understand my speech?_] Any more than if I spake to you in a strange language. So many of our hearer...
_Ye do the deeds of your father_ By your deeds ye show whose children ye are. _They said, We be not born of fornication_ We are not bastard Jews, a mixed, spurious blood, descended from Gentile idolat...
MY SPEECH; my manner of discourse and its true meaning. CANNOT HEAR MY WORD; that is, my doctrine. The reason why they could not was the perverse state of their hearts, as is taught in the next verse...
WHY DO YE NOT UNDERSTAND MY SPEECH? EVEN BECAUSE YE CANNOT HEAR MY WORD....
The true ancestry of the Jews:...
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...
41-47 Satan prompts men to excesses by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into the mind tends to ruin men's souls. He is the great promoter of falsehood of every kind. He is...
It is manifest all along this discourse, that Christ spake riddles to the Jews, and that they understood not the import and sense of his discourse: Now (saith our Saviour) the reason is, BECAUSE YE CA...
John 8:43 Why G1302 not G3756 understand G1097 (G5719) My G1699 speech G2981 Because G3754 not G3756...
‘Jesus said to them, ‘If God were your Father you would love me, for I have come forth and am come from God, and I did not come of my own accord, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I am sa...
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 8:43. WHY DO YE NOT KNOW MY SPEECH? BECAUSE YE CANNOT HEAR MY WORD. There is a subtle difference between ‘word' and ‘speech,' the former properly referring to substance, the latter to the form. ...
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...
MY SPEECH (την λαλιαν την εμην) andMY WORD (τον λογον τον εμον). Perhaps λαλια, old word from λαλος (talk), means here more manner of speech than just story (John 4:42), while λογος refers rather...
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...
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...
Why DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I SAY? Minds filled with ideas from the Devil, find it hard to understand the ideas from God, no matter how plainly they are expressed....
_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...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 8:43 YOU CANNOT BEAR. Or, “you are not able.” TO HEAR MY WORD. “Hear” means “hear and accept.” ⇐...
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...
_Why do ye not understand_, &c. Because cleaving to your pride, avarice, hatred, and enmity against Me, ye will not hear Me and understand. "They could not hear," says S. Augustine, "because they refu...
_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...
Acts 7:51; Hosea 14:9; Isaiah 44:18; Isaiah 6:9; Jeremiah 6:10;...
Speech - word [λ α λ ι α ν - λ ο γ ο ν]. The former word refers to the form, the latter to the substance of discourse. So Matthew 26:73, of Peter, "thy speech [λ α λ ι α] bewrayeth thee;" thy mode of...