μήτι�. They see that He speaks of a voluntary departure, and perhaps they suspect that He alludes to His death. So with sarcasm still more bitter than the sneer in John 7:35 they exclaim ‘Surely He does not mean to commit suicide? We certainly shall not be able to follow Him if He takes refuge in that!’
Verse 22. _WILL HE KILL HIMSELF?_] They now understood that he spoke concerning his death; but before, John 7:35, they thought he spoke of going to some of the Grecian provinces, to preach to the disp...
WILL HE KILL HIMSELF? - It is difficult to know whether this question was asked from ignorance or malice. Self-murder was esteemed then, as it is now, as one of the greatest crimes; and it is not impr...
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...
WILL HE KILL HIMSELF? I do not suppose that these "Jews" were so dull as their question implies. They probably asked this question in scorn. They did not understand the Lord because they did not want...
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...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
JEWS. See note on John 1:19, 'WILL HE KILL HIMSELF?. Surely He will not (Greek. _met)_ kill Himself?...
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....
_Will he kill himself?_ They see that He speaks of a voluntary departure, and perhaps they suspect that He alludes to His death. So with sarcasm still more bitter than the sneer in John 7:35 they excl...
VER 21. THEN SAID JESUS AGAIN TO THEM, I GO MY WAY, AND YOU SHALL SEEK ME, AND SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS: WHITHER I GO, YOU CANNOT COME. 22. THEN SAID THE JEWS, WILL HE KILL HIMSELF? BECAUSE HE SAID, WHI...
_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...
ΜΉΤΙ (G3385) вводит вопрос, содержащий колебания: "Ты ведь не думаешь... не правда ли?" (М, 170; Matthew 12:23). ΆΠΟΚΤΕΝΕΪ́ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΚΤΕΊΝΩ (G615) убивать; здесь в сочетании с возвратн...
WILL HE KILL HIMSELF, &C.— Our Lord's answer to this question is, _Ye are from beneath:_ "Such a vile insinuation evidently shews what sort of persons you are, and whence you have derived your origina...
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...
Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come. THEN SAID THE JEWS, WILL HE KILL HIMSELF? BECAUSE HE SAITH, WHITHER I GO, YE CANNOT COME. They evidently s...
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...
WILL HE KILL HIMSELF?] and thereby enter Gehenna, the punishment awarded to suicide? (Jos. 'Wars,' iii. 8, 5). In that case we shall certainly not care to follow Him! The mockery is more bitter than i...
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...
THEN SAID THE JEWS, WILL HE KILL HIMSELF? — They see the deeper meaning of His words, and yet cannot see how that meaning is to be fulfilled. “He is going away, and He clearly refers to His death. But...
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...
As before, so now, the Jews fail to understand Him, and ask: Μήτι … ἐλθεῖν; “Will He kill Himself, etc.?” They gathered from the ὑπάγω that the departure He spoke of was His own action, and thought th...
_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...
ALARMING PREDICTION AGAINST THEM John 8:21-27. _“Then He again said to them, I go, and you shall seek Me, and you shall perish in your sin; whither I go, you are not able to come.”_ The prophetic eye...
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 said therefore to them again_, _I go away and you shall seek me and you shall die in your sin; whither I go, you cannot come._ 22. _The Jews therefore said, will he kill himself? for he said,...
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...
22._Will he kill himself? _The scribes persevere not only in fearless scorn, but likewise in effrontery; for they ridicule what he had said, that _they cannot follow whither he shall go_; as if they h...
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, WILL HE KILL HIMSELF?.... Which was not only a wicked, but a foolish consequence, drawn from his words: for it by no means followed, because he was going away, and whither they cou...
Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come. Ver. 22. _Will be kill himself_] _q.d._ Then indeed we cannot, because we will not bear him company in so vil...
_Then said the Jews_ Showing at once the great perverseness of their disposition, and their contempt of his declaration; _will he kill himself?_ &c. Thus they made a jest of his threatening, and inste...
Christ's going to the Father:...
THEN SAID THE JEWS, WILL HE KILL HIMSELF? BECAUSE HE SAITH, WHITHER I GO, YE CANNOT COME....
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...
Before they guessed that he would go to the dispersed amongst the Gentiles, 1 THESSALONIANS 7:35. Now they fancy that he would kill himself; or else speak this in mockery....
John 8:22 So G3767 Jews G2453 said G3004 (G5707) kill G3385 G615 (G5692) Himself G1438 because...
‘The Judaisers therefore said, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘where I am going you cannot come'?” Jesus' statement ‘where I am going you cannot come' then made them ask themselves whethe...
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 8:22. THE JEWS THEREFORE SAID, WILL HE KILL HIMSELF? BECAUSE HE SAITH, WHITHER I GO YE CANNOT COME. Before (chap. John 7:35) their answer had been, Will He go to Gentiles? The change here shows h...
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...
WILL HE KILL HIMSELF? (μητ αποκτενε εαυτον;). Negative answer formally expected, but there is a manifest sneer in the query. "The mockery in these words is alike subtle and bitter" (Vincent). It was...
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...
THAT HE WILL KILL HIMSELF? They are making fun of him. The Jews believed the darkest area of the "world of the dead" was reserved for suicides....
_I go My way, and ye shall seek Me, and shall die in your sins._ Sin here means the departure of the heart from God, general alienation from Him, and in John 8:24 the particular manifestations of such...
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...
_Then said the Jews_, &c. The officers made a wiser inquiry (Joh 7:35), _Will He go to the dispersion of the Gentiles?_ But the Pharisees, blinded by their hatred, thought He had no way of escape but...
_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...
Hebrews 12:3; Hebrews 13:13; John 10:20; John 7:20; John 8:48;...
Will He kill Himself [μ η τ ι α π ο κ τ ε ν ε ι ε α υ τ ο ν] ? The mockery in these words is alike subtle and bitter. The interrogative particle, mhti, signifies surely He will not by any chance kill...
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...