answered and said. See App-122 and note on Deuteronomy 1:41.
Though. Even if. App-118.
know. Greek. oida. App-132. See note on John 1:26.
cannot tell. know (Greek. oida) not (App-105).
and. All the texts read "or".
Verse John 8:14. _I KNOW WHENCE I CAME_] I came from God, and am going to God, and can neither do nor say any thing but what leads to and glorifies him....
JESUS ANSWERED ... - To this objection Jesus replied by saying, first, that the case was such that his testimony alone ought to be received; and, secondly, that he had the evidence given him by his Fa...
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. ...
JOHN 8. FURTHER CONTROVERSY IN JERUSALEM. John 8:12. The Light of the World; Discourse in the Treasury. If we remove the _Pericope adulterai_ (John 7:53 to John 8:11, clearly a later addition, though...
THOUGH. BEAR RECORD OF MYSELF, MY RECORD IS TRUE. A man is not usually competent to bear witness of himself on account of the frailty of human understanding and must have corroborative testimony.. sup...
So Jesus again continued to speak to them. "I am the Light of the World, he said. "He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but he will have the light of life." So the Pharisees said to him: "You...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
_Though I bear record_ Better, EVEN IF _I bear_ WITNESS. God can testify respecting Himself, and there are truths to which He alone can testify. Yet He condescends to conform to the standard of human...
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...
ΚἊΝ ἘΓῺ Μ. EVEN IF _I should bear_ WITNESS. Strong emphasis on ἐγώ. God can testify respecting Himself, and there are truths to which He alone can testify. Yet He condescends to conform to the standar...
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 13. The Pharisees therefore said to him, You bear record of yourself; your record is not true. 14. Jesus answered and said to them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I kno...
_JESUS IS THE LIGHT FOR THE WORLD -- JOHN 8:12-20:_ Those who live in sin are walking in darkness. Jesus said, "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall...
ΆΠΕΚΡΊΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать. Ответ Иисуса предполагает, что Его свидетельство — не единственное, ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) perf. _ind. act._ знать. Def. perf. со _знач. praes....
THOUGH I BEAR RECORD OF MYSELF,— "Though I call myself _the Light of the world,_ ye are not to imagine that I do it from a spirit of pride and falsehood. I give myself the title for no other reason bu...
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD _Text 8:12-20_ 12 Again therefore Jesus spake 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 lif...
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...
Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. JESUS ANSWE...
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...
8:14 know (b-20) _ Oida_ , as ver. 19; ch. 7.29. come (c-34) Present tense and characteristic. see Note h, Galatians 2:14 ....
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...
'The law as to witnesses applies only to human witnesses. It does not apply to Me, who am more than man, seeing that I know that I came down from heaven, and shall return thither.'...
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...
THOUGH I BEAR RECORD OF MYSELF, YET MY RECORD IS TRUE. — For “record” read in each instance _witness,_ as in John 8:13. The pronoun is emphatic. “Even if _I_ do bear witness of Myself, yet My witness...
CHAPTER 18 CHRIST THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. “Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of...
_Jesus proclaims Himself the Light of the World_....
Jesus replies: κἂν … ὑπάγω, “even if I witness of Myself, My witness is true”. The difference between καὶ εἰ and εἰ καί is clearly stated by Hermann on Viger, 822; Klotz on Devarius, 519; and is for t...
THE TWOFOLD WITNESS John 8:12-20 On either side of the Temple court stood a huge golden candelabrum. On the first and each succeeding night of the week of the Feast of Tabernacles these were lit, and...
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...
Jesus answered and said unto them, (b) Though I bear record of myself, [yet] my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. (b) That...
_Although I give testimony (or witness) of myself, my testimony is true. He gives them the reason, ver. 16; because he is not alone, but the Father (who also beareth witness) is also with him. (Witham...
THE LIGHT OF LIFE John 8:12-16. _“Then, Jesus again spoke to them, saying, I am the Light of the world; the one following Me can not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of life.”_ The subjuncti...
2. JESUS, THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD: 8:12-20. We find in this section: 1. A testimony (John 8:12); 2. An objection (John 8:13); 3. The answer of Jesus (John 8:14-19); 4. An historical notice ...
VER. 14. “ _Jesus answered and said to them; Even if I bear witness of myself, my witness is true, because I know whence I came and whither I go; but you know not whence I come or whither I go._ ” Jes...
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. (13) The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Th...
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...
_‘THE LIGHT OF LIFE’_ ‘The light of life.’ John 8:12 ‘Light’ and ‘life’ are words which have a strange connection everywhere. Even in the natural world, there must be ‘light’ if there would be ‘life...
14._Though I testify concerning myself. _Christ replies, that his testimony possesses sufficient credit and authority, because he is not a private person belonging to the great body of men, but holds...
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...
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM,.... In vindication of himself, and his testimony: THOUGH I BEAR RECORD OF MYSELF, YET MY RECORD IS TRUE; which seems contradictory to what he says, in John 5:31, an...
Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, _yet_ my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. Ver. 14. _Y...
_The Pharisees, therefore_ Namely, some of them who were then present, but different persons from those who had brought in the woman, being enraged at the late disappointment of their brethren; _said...
THOUGH I BEAR RECORD OF MYSELF-MY RECORD IS TRUE; he had before said, "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true," chap John 5:31; but there he was speaking of the validity of testimony acco...
JESUS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. Christ's statement and the Jews' objection:...
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, THOUGH I BEAR RECORD OF MYSELF, YET MY RECORD IS TRUE; FOR I KNOW WHENCE I CAME AND WHITHER I GO; BUT YE CANNOT TELL WHENCE I COME AND WHITHER I GO....
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...
12-16 Christ is the Light of the world. God is light, and Christ is the image of the invisible God. One sun enlightens the whole world; so does one Christ, and there needs no more. What a dark dungeo...
There is a seeming difficulty to reconcile the words of our Saviour, 1 THESSALONIANS 5:31, _If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true, _ and his assertion here, THOUGH I BEAR RECORD OF MYSEL...
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity If Christ is only man, how is it that He says, "Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: because I know whence I came, and whither I go; ye...
John 8:14 Jesus G2424 answered G611 (G5662) and G2532 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 Even G2579 I...
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...
‘Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I do bear witness of myself, my witness is true, for I know from where I came and where I am going”.' Jesus reply is that in His case the general principle i...
“But you do not know from where I come and where I am going. You judge after the flesh, I judge no man”.' Thus they should recognise that they were not in a position to judge His testimony for they ju...
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...
John 8:14. JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, EVEN IF I BEAR WITNESS CONCERNING MYSELF, MY WITNESS IS TRUE: BECAUSE I KNOW WHENCE I CAME, AND WHITHER I GO; but ye know not whence I come, or whither I...
EVEN IF (καν). That is κα εαν, a condition of the third class with the present active subjunctive μαρτυρω. Jesus means that his own witness concerning himself is true (αληθες) even if it contravene...
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...
WHAT I SAY IS TRUE. The Pharisees argued against this. If someone claimed to be from God, his own claim proved nothing. But Jesus did speak the truth, because he was the Truth! And there was other evi...
_Then spake Jesus again unto them_ THE CONNECTION OF CHRIST’S DISCOURSE WITH THE PREVIOUS INCIDENT AND THE FEAST The feast of tabernacles was over. The water of Siloah was no more poured out by the...
_Though I bear record of Myself, yet My record is true_ THE SELF-EVIDENCING POWER OF THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS The sun pours forth his beams so that it becomes bright day, and we question not his bei...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 8:13 The Pharisees continue the dispute from John 5:31 (see notes). ⇐...
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...
_Jesus answered_, &c. Not only true in itself, but such as ought to be accepted and believed. This testimony of the Light is true, whether it show or hide Itself, says S. Augustine. The light itself n...
_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...
2 Corinthians 11:31; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 12:19; John 10:15;...
Though [κ α ν]. Literally, even if. I know [ο ι δ α]. With a clear inward consciousness. See on 2 24. Whence I came and whither I go. Two essential facts of testimony, viz., origin and destiny. "The...
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...