John 7:37-59

III. On and after the great day of the Feast: 7:37-8:59.

The last and great day of the feast has arrived; Jesus lays aside the apologetic form which until now He has given to His teachings. His word assumes a solemnity proportioned to that of this holy day; He declares Himself to be the reality of all the great historic symbols which the feast recalls to mind. Such declarations only aggravate the unbelief of a part of those who surround Him, while they draw more closely the bond already formed between the believers and Himself.

Four Divisions: 1. The true source: John 7:37-52; John 2. The true light: John 8:12-20; John 3. The true Messiah: John 8:21-29; John 4. The incurable nature of Jewish unbelief: John 8:30-59. The passage John 7:53 to John 8:11, which contains the story of the woman taken in adultery, does not appear to us to belong to the genuine text of the Gospel.