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Verse 42. _IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER, YE WOULD LOVE ME_] I came from
God, and it would be absurd to suppose that you would persecute me if
you were under the influence of God. The children of the same f...
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IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER - If you had the spirit of God, or love to
him, or were worthy to be called his children.
YE WOULD LOVE ME - Jesus was “the brightness of the Father’s glory
and the express ima...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
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LOVE. Greek _agapao._ App-136.
CAME. am here.
NEITHER. not even. Greek. _oude._
CAME I. am. come.
SENT. Greek. _apostello._ App-174....
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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...
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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....
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Moral proof that God is not their father; if they were God's children
they would love His Son. Comp. John 15:23, and -every one that loveth
Him that begat loveth Him also that is begotten of Him" (1 J...
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42. Moral proof that God is _not_ their Father; if He were, they would
love His Son. Comp. John 15:23 and ‘Every one that loveth Him that
begat loveth Him also that is begotten of Him’ (1 John 5:1). H...
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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...
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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;...
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_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...
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DISCOURSE: 1655
LOVE TO CHRIST A TEST OF OUR RELATION TO GOD
John 8:42. _Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would
love me_.
IF experience did not convince us, we could scarcely believe...
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I PROCEEDED FORTH AND CAME FROM GOD;— "I originally proceeded from
God the Father as his only-begotten Son, partaker of the same nature
with him, and am come into the world immediately from him: I did...
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SATAN'S CHILDREN
_Text 8:41-47_
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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...
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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...
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Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for
I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he
sent me.
JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER, YE...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER, YE WOULD LOVE ME. — This follows because
they would then be in a relationship of spiritual affinity to Him.
God’s children would bear the spiritual image of their Father, and...
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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...
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_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
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But this claim Jesus explodes by the same argument: Εἰ ὁ
θεὸς … ἀπέστειλε. Were God your Father you would love
me, for I am from God. ἐξῆλθον ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ
expresses “the proceeding forth from that esse...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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_,...
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Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in
my word, then are ye my disciples indeed: (32) And ye shall know the
truth, and the truth shall make you free. (33) They answered...
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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...
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42._If God were your Father, you would love me. _Christ’s argument
is this: “Whoever is a child of God will acknowledge his first-born
Son; but you hate me, and therefore you have no reason to boast,...
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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...
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JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER,.... By adoption; and
this was discovered by the grace of regeneration; or in other words,
if they had been born of God,
YE WOULD LOVE ME; for in regener...
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Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I
proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he
sent me.
Ver. 42. _If God were your Father_] So that there i...
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_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...
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The true ancestry of the Jews:...
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JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER, YE WOULD LOVE ME; FOR I
PROCEEDED FORTH AND CAME FROM GOD; NEITHER CAME I OF MYSELF, BUT HE
SENT ME....
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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...
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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...
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This agreeth with what we have 1 JOHN 5:1, _Every one that loveth him
that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him._ But here our
Saviour rather seemeth to speak of his proceeding forth and com...
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John 8:42 Jesus G2424 G3767 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 If G1487 God
G2316 were G2258 (G5
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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John 8:42. JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER, YE WOULD
LOVE ME: FOR FROM GOD I CAME FORTH, AND AM HERE, FOR ALSO I HAVE NOT
COME OF MYSELF, BUT HE SENT ME. Again Jesus applies the same pri...
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YE WOULD LOVE ME
(ηγαπατε αν εμε). Conclusion of second-class condition
with distinct implication that their failure to love Jesus is proof
that God is not their Father (protasis).FOR I CAME FORTH...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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IF GOD REALLY WERE YOUR FATHER. The fact they hated the Son proved
they were not God's children. Jesus bears down hard on them, because
he wishes to save them from God's wrath. It isn't "make believe,...
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_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...
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_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;...
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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...
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_Jesus said,_ &c. Put syllogistically, our Lord's argument runs this,
"He who loves God, loves also the Son of God. But ye do not love Me,
who am the Son of God. Therefore ye love not God. Just as the...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 16:22; 1 John 4:10; 1 John 4:14; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:1;
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I proceeded forth - from God [ε κ τ ο υ θ ε ο υ ε ξ η λ
θ ο ν]. Rev., came forth. The phrase occurs only here and in John
16:28. Exelqein is found in John 13:3; John 16:30, and emphasizes the
idea of...
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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...
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I proceeded forth — As God, and come — As Christ....