When they heard this, they all left. They do not argue with Jesus, because they cannot! They said too much about the woman's guilt, and they know it was they themselves who tried to evade the Law. Compare this with John 8:46.
JOHN 8:9 oi` de. avkou,santej evxh,rconto ei-j kaqV ei-j {A} The basic text of the pericope continued to be amplified by the addition of explanatory glosses. The Textus Receptus adds the statement th...
Verse John 8:9. _BEING CONVICTED BY_ THEIR OWN _CONSCIENCE_] So it is likely they were all guilty of similar crimes. _Their own_ is not in the original, and is needless: _being convicted by conscience...
BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST - As being conscious of more sins, and, therefore, being desirous to leave the Lord Jesus. The word “eldest” here probably refers not to age, but to benefit - from those who we...
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...
BEING CONVICTED BY THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE, WENT OUT. As he wrote and left them to their own thoughts, conscience began to do its work. "The word of the Lord was quick and powerful." In the presence of o...
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)...
CONVICTED, &c. By the manifestation of the Lord's knowledge of what was in their hearts and of what they were concealing for the purpose of tempting Him. Greek. _elencho._ Same word as in John 8:46; J...
_being convicted by their own conscience_ These words are probably a gloss added by some copyist, like -as though He heard them not," added by our translators (John 8:6). _beginning at the eldest_ Lit...
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...
9. Omit καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς συνειδήσεως ἐλεγχόμενοι after ἈΚΟΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ, and ἕως τῶν ἐσχάτων after ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΈΡΩΝ (both obvious glosses). ΟΥ̓͂ΣΑ for ἙΣΤΩ͂ΣΑ. 9. The variations in this verse are considerable, but th...
1–11. The number of various readings in this section is very large, and we have not the data for constructing a satisfactory text....
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...
ΆΚΟΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (subst.)_ от ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать. _Aor._ логически предшествует действию основного гл. ΈΞΉΡΧΟΝΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΞΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1831) выходить. Inch, или iterat....
AND THEY WHICH HEARD IT, &C.— "And as all their consciences were struck with horror by a secret power which set these words home upon them, and they thereupon could not but accuse themselves of one he...
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...
And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. AN...
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...
8:9 there. (a-28) Lit. 'being in the midst.'...
IN THE MIDST] viz. of the disciples who alone were left. Augustine says strikingly, 'the _misera_ before the _Misericordia._'...
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 readings of the texts here differ considerably, but without any essential difference of meaning. “Being convicted by their own conscience” is probably an addition made by some copyist to explain t...
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...
οἱ δὲ … ἐσχάτων. “And they when they heard it went out one by one, beginning from the elders until the last.” [The words which truly describe the motive of this departure, καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς συνειδήσεως ἐλεγ...
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...
_Went out one by one, [2] confounded, and as it is in the ordinary Greek copies, convicted by their own conscience. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] _ Greek: apo tes suneideseos, elegchomenoi._...
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...
VER. 9. If the Pharisees had been sincere in their indignation against the accused, it was the time to lead her to the presence of the officially constituted judge. But it was not the evil that they w...
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...
_ALONE WITH JESUS_ ‘And they … went out … and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.’ John 8:9 The sinner and Jesus were left alone. They must always be so. None should come in t...
9._And being reproved by their conscience. _Here we perceive how great is the power of an evil conscience. Though those wicked hypocrites intended to entrap Christ by their cavils, yet as soon as he p...
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 THEY WHICH HEARD IT,.... Not all, not the disciples of Christ, nor the multitude, but the Scribes and Pharisees: BEING CONVICTED BY THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE; that they were not without sin, nor free...
And they which heard _it_, being convicted by _their own_ conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, _even_ unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst....
_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...
AND THEY WHICH HEARD IT, BEING CONVICTED BY THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE, WENT OUT ONE BY ONE, BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST, EVEN UNTO THE LAST; AND JESUS WAS LEFT ALONE, AND THE WOMAN STANDING IN THE MIDST....
The Savior's solution:...
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...
This was an age of very great corruption as to men's lives and manners, as well as to doctrine, and corruption of worship; and as other enormities of life were very common and ordinary amongst them, s...
John 8:9 Then G1161 heard G191 (G5660) it G2532 convicted G1651 (G5746) by G5259 conscience G4893 out...
‘And when they heard it they went away one by one, beginning with the eldest, even to the last, and Jesus was left alone, and the woman where she was, in the midst.' The original narrator had noted th...
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...
John 8:9. BUT THEY, WHEN THEY HEARD IT, WENT OUT ONE BY ONE, BEGINNING AT THE ELDER. It was a correct comment on their state when the words ‘being convicted by their own conscience' found their way in...
WENT OUT (εξηρχοντο). Inchoative imperfect. Graphic picture.ONE BY ONE (εις καθ' εις). Not a Johannine phrase, but in Mark 14:19 where also the second nominative is retained as if καθ' (κατα) is...
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...
_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...
_But on hearing this they went out one by one._ Some Greek copies add, _"Convicted by their own conscience,"_ as being adulterers, or even worse. For what Jesus said was true, and ought to strike home...
_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 John 3:20; 1 Kings 17:18; 1 Kings 2:44; Ecclesiastes 7:22; Ge
Beginning at the eldest — Or the elders. Jesus was left alone — By all those scribes and Pharisees who proposed the question. But many others remained, to whom our Lord directed his discourse presentl...
(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...