Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
John 8:23
Their earthly hearts are without the higher wisdom and divine life of those who are born of God.
Their earthly hearts are without the higher wisdom and divine life of those who are born of God.
Verse 23. _YE ARE FROM BENEATH_] Ye are capable of murder, and of self-murder too, because ye have nothing of God in you. Ye are altogether _earthly, sensual_, and _devilish_. They verified this chara...
YE ARE FROM BENEATH - The expression from bequeath, here, is opposed to the phrase from above. It means, You are of the earth, or are influenced by earthly, sensual, and corrupt passions. You are gove...
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...
YE ARE FROM BENEATH. Their words were full of mockery and the Lord increases his severity. Understanding their allusion to the world beneath in their question, he replies, "You are from beneath," ear...
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)...
YE ARE FROM BENEATH. i.e. of the earth. See 1 Corinthians 15:47. The phrase occurs only in this Gospel. FROM. out from. Greek. _ek._ App-104. Compare John 1:46. FROM ABOVE. Greek _ek ton ano (plural)...
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....
_Ye are from beneath_ At first sight it might seem as if this meant -ye are from hell." Christ uses strong language later on (John 8:44), and this interpretation would make good sense with what preced...
ἘΚ ΤΩ͂Ν ΚΆΤΩ ἘΣΤΈ. At first sight it might seem as if this meant ‘ye are from hell.’ Christ uses strong language later on (John 8:44), and this interpretation would make good sense with what precedes....
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 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...
ΚΆΤΩ (G2736) ниже, под. ΆΝ (G507) вверху. Иудейские термины для обозначения земного и небесного (Schnackenburg). Дальше в стихе дается объяснение обоих терминов....
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...
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE FROM BENEATH; I AM FROM ABOVE: YE ARE OF THIS WORLD; I AM NO...
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...
8:23 from (e-8) from (e-12) _ Ek_ . see Note, ch. 3.31; lit. 'of those things which are.'...
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...
There is indeed a gulf which they cannot pass, but it is not that between souls in Abraham’s bosom and souls in Hades. It is the gulf between heaven and earth. This He brings out in two pairs of antit...
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...
But disregarding the interruption, and wishing more clearly to show why they could not follow Him, and what constituted the real separation in destiny between Him and them, He says: Ὑμεῖς … τούτου, “Y...
_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...
_I am not of this world: he speaks of his divine person, as the words evidently shew. (Witham)_...
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...
“ _And he said to them, you are from beneath, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world._ 24. _Therefore I said to you, that you shall die in your sins; for, if you do not believe...
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...
23._You are from beneath, I am from above. _As they did not deserve that he should teach them, he wished only to strike them with reproofs conveyed in few words, as in this passage he declares that th...
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 HE SAID UNTO THEM,.... Upon this wicked remark of theirs, and query on his words: YE ARE FROM BENEATH: not only of the earth, earthy, and so spoke of the earth, and as carnal men; but even of hel...
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. Ver. 23. _Ye are from beneath_] _Vos infernales estis, Ego Supernus._ (Beza.) So the wicked...
_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...
FROM BENEATH; earthly and sensual. FROM ABOVE; heavenly and divine....
Christ's going to the Father:...
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE FROM BENEATH; I AM FROM ABOVE: YE ARE OF THIS WORLD; I AM NOT OF THIS WORLD....
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...
Ye are not only of an earthly extraction, creatures of the earth, not descended from heaven, as I am; but also of earthly spirits and principles; you savour nothing that is sublime and spiritual, and...
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity If Christ is only man, how does He say, "Ye are from below, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world? "[104]...
John 8:23 And G2532 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 You G5210 are G2075 (G5748) from G1537 beneath...
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 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...
‘And he said to them “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. That is why I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am you w...
John 8:23-24. AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE FROM BENEATH; I AM FROM ABOVE: YE ARE OF THIS WORLD; I AM NOT OF THIS WORLD. I SAID THEREFORE UNTO YOU, THAT YE SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS; FOR IF YE SHALL NOT...
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...
YE ARE FROM BENEATH (υμεις εκ των κατω). This language, peculiar to John, could take up the idea in Josephus that these rabbis came from Gehenna whence they will go as children of the devil (John 8:...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "world-system". (John 12:25); (John 12:31); (John 7:7). (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8). _
John 8:23 Methods of Living There are three methods of living in this world: we may live from beneath, or from within ourselves, or from above. I. I need only distinguish the first mentioned method...
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...
BUT I COME FROM ABOVE. Jesus had showed _their_ sins to be the basis of separation, but they believed they could go anywhere he could go, unless he went to _some place_ for self-murder. In response to...
_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...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 8:23 FROM BELOW means belonging to this natural world; FROM ABOVE means from God the Father. It also means following God’s will and speaking his truth....
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...
_And_ (therefore) _He said unto them_, &c. Ye cleave to your sins and will go to the lowest depth, while I shall return to heaven, and therefore ye will seek Me and will not find Me. For I am like the...
_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...
1 Corinthians 15:47; 1 Corinthians 15:48; 1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:16;...
Ye are from beneath [ε κ τ ω ν κ α τ ω ε σ τ ε]. A phrase peculiar to John and to his Gospel. Jesus states the radical antagonism between His opposers and Himself, as based upon difference of origin a...
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...
Ye are — Again he passes over their interruption, and proves what he advanced, John 8:21. Of them that are beneath — From the earth. I am of them that are above — Here he directly shows whence he came...