Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
John 8:34
Verse 34. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.] Or, δουλος εστι, c., is the slave of sin. This was the slavery of which Christ spoke and deliverance from it, was the liberty which he promised.
Verse 34. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.] Or, δουλος εστι, c., is the slave of sin. This was the slavery of which Christ spoke and deliverance from it, was the liberty which he promised.
JOHN 8:34 th/j a`marti,aj {A} A majority of the Committee explained the absence of th/j a`marti,aj from several witnesses of the Western text (D itb, d syrs copbomss Clement _al_) as a stylistic impr...
WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN ... - In this passage Jesus shows them that he did not refer to political bondage, but to the slavery of the soul to evil passions and desires. IS THE SERVANT - Is the slave...
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. ...
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...
WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN IS THE SERVANT OF SIN. According to his custom, Christ makes no direct argument in reply, but states. truth and leaves them to apply it. The sinner is the slave of sin. Action...
They answered him: "We are the descendants of Abraham and we have never been slaves to any man. How do you say: 'You will become free'?" Jesus answered them: "This is the truth I tell you--everyone wh...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
VERILY, VERILY. Called forth by this manifest misrepresentation of the truth. The twelfth occurance. See John 1:51. WHOSOEVER. Every one who. COMMITTETH. doeth or practiseth. SIN. Not. single act,...
_Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin_ Better, EVERYONE WHO CONTINUES TO COMMIT SIN IS THE BOND-SERVANT _of sin_. -Committeth sin" is too weak for the Greek: Christ does not say that a singl...
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...
ἈΜῊΝ�. With great solemnity He points them to a bondage far worse than political servitude. see on John 1:51. ΠΑ͂Σ Ὁ ΠΟΙΩ͂Ν Τ. ἉΜ. EVERYONE WHO CONTINUETH TO DO SIN IS THE BOND-SERVANT _of sin_. Chris...
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...
31. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed in him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed; 32. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33. They ans...
_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...
ΠΟΙΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать, практиковать. Subst. part. описывает особенность или классовую принадлежность тех, кто выполняет действие (SMT 56)....
WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN, &C.— Ποιει αμαρτιαν, _doeth,_ or _practiseth sin:_ to _do,_ in the Hebrew dialect, imports not the present act only, but the habit of doing. Hence some render this, _Whosoeve...
TRUTH BRINGS FREEDOM _Text 8:31-36_ 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples; 32 and ye shall know the truth, and the tr...
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...
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. JESUS ANSWERED THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER [OR 'EVERYONE THAT' pas (G3956 )...
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...
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...
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...
WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN IS THE SERVANT OF SIN. — The Cambridge MS. and some of the Fathers omit the words “of sin”; but this is clearly to avoid the difficulty of the connection of thought, and they...
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...
_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
The answer is: ἀμὴν … ἁμαρτίας [τῆς ἁμαρτίας is bracketed by W.H [68]]. The liberty meant is inward, radical, and individual. “Every one who lives a life of sin is a slave.” _Cf._ Romans 6:16; Romans...
THE SOURCE OF TRUE LIBERTY John 8:31-38 Sin is not a necessary part of our being. _The servant abideth not in the house for ever._ Your child is an integral part of the household; he has become one w...
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...
THE SLAVE OF SIN John 8:34. _“Jesus responded to them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, That every one doing sin is the slave of sin.”_ The devil's people all night long wheeling in the mazy gyrations of...
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)...
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_,...
VER. 34. The genitive τῆς ἁμαρτίας _of sin_, is omitted by the _Cambridge_ MS., and an important document of _the Itala;_ without this complement, the sense is: “ _He is a slave_, truly a slave, while...
“ _They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never been slaves of any one; how sayest thou: you shall become free?_ 34. _Jesus answered them, Verily, verily I say to you that whosoever commit...
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...
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...
34._Every man who committeth sin is the slave of sin. _This is an argument drawn from contrary things. They boasted that they were free. He proves that they are the _slaves of sin, _because, being ens...
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 THEM, VERILY VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU,.... Taking no notice of their civil liberty, to which he could easily have replied to their confusion and silence, he observes to them their moral se...
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. Ver. 34. _Is the servant of sin_] Hath as many lords as lusts: _a_ that as Augustine said of Rome...
_They answered him_ Namely, the other Jews that were present, not those that believed, as appears by the whole tenor of the conversation; _We be Abraham's seed_ A person always free, and a peculiar fa...
True liberty:...
JESUS ANSWERED THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN IS THE SERVANT OF SIN....
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...
30-36 Such power attended our Lord's words, that many were convinced, and professed to believe in him. He encouraged them to attend his teaching, rely on his promises, and obey his commands, notwiths...
Our Saviour here correcteth their mistake, letting them know, that he was not speaking about any corporal, but spiritual servitude; not of the freedom of men's bodies from the power of enemies, but of...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III He does not call mammon Lord when He says, "Ye cannot serve two masters; "but He teaches His disciples who serve God, not to be subject to mammon, nor to be ruled b...
John 8:34 Jesus G2424 answered G611 (G5662) them G846 Most G281 assuredly G281 say G3004 (G5719) you...
‘Jesus answered them, “I tell you emphatically that every one who goes on sinning is a slave of sin”.' Jesus denies that they are free. ‘So they think they are free,' He asks. ‘Well, let them consider...
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...
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...
John 8:34. JESUS ANSWERED THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU. EVERY ONE THAT DOETH SIN IS A SLAVE OF SIN. Jesus directs them to a slavery of which they have not thought, slavery to sin. Every one wh...
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...
EVERY ONE THAT COMMITTETH SIN IS THE BONDSERVANT OF SIN (πας ο ποιων την αμαρτιαν δουλος εστιν [της αμαρτιασ]). The Western class omits της αμαρτιας (sin), but that is the idea anyhow. Note the use...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
EVERYONE WHO SINS IS A SLAVE OF SIN. Christ does not argue with them, but states a fact. The one who makes a HABIT of sin is a slave to Satan. [See Romans 7:9-24.]...
_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;...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 8:34 Being a SLAVE TO SIN means being unable to escape from sinful patterns of conduct without Jesus’ help (see v. John 8:36; see also notes on...
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...
_Veri1y, verily_, &c. Most assured, _i.e._, the saying is, and specially commended to their notice. But our Lord speaks to them modestly and becomingly, using only general terms and the third person....
_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 John 3:8; 1 Kings 21:25; 2 Peter 2:19; Acts 8:23; Ephesians 2:2;...
Whosoever committeth [π α ς ο π ο ι ω ν]. Rev., more correctly, every one that committeth. Sin [τ η ν α μ α ρ τ ι α ν]. The definite article, the sin, shows that Jesus does not mean merely a simple ac...
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...
Jesus answered — Each branch of their objection, first concerning freedom, then concerning their being Abraham's offspring, John 8:37, &c. He that committeth sin, is, in fact, the slave of sin....