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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
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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)...
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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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_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...
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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....
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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 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...
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_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...
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ΚΆΤΩ (G2736) ниже, под.
ΆΝ (G507) вверху. Иудейские термины для
обозначения земного и небесного
(Schnackenburg). Дальше в стихе дается
объяснение обоих терминов....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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8:23 from (e-8) from (e-12) _ Ek_ . see Note, ch. 3.31; lit. 'of those
things which are.'...
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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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Their earthly hearts are without the higher wisdom and divine life of
those who are born of God....
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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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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...
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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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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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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_I am not of this world: he speaks of his divine person, as the words
evidently shew. (Witham)_...
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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...
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“ _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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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FROM BENEATH; earthly and sensual.
FROM ABOVE; heavenly and divine....
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AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE FROM BENEATH; I AM FROM ABOVE: YE ARE OF
THIS WORLD; I AM NOT OF THIS WORLD....
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Christ's going to the Father:...
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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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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...
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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...
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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]...
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John 8:23 And G2532 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 You G5210 are G2075
(G5748) from G1537 beneath...
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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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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...
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‘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...
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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...
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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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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:...
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WORLD
Greek, "kosmos", means "world-system". (John 12:25); (John 12:31);
(John 7:7).
(_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8). _
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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...
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_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...
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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 15:47; 1 Corinthians 15:48; 1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:16;...
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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...
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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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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...