Geneva Study Bible Commentary
John 8:26
(10) I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
(10) God is the avenger of Christ's despised doctrine.
(10) I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
(10) God is the avenger of Christ's despised doctrine.
Verse 26. _I HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY AND TO JUDGE OF YOU_] Or, _to_ _speak and to condemn_, c. I could speedily expose all your iniquities-your pride and ambition, your hypocrisy and irreligion, your...
I HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY - There are many things which I might say to reprove and expose your pride and hypocrisy. By this he implied that he understood well their character, and that he was able to...
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...
HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY AND JUDGE OF YOU. Still he continues to speak. His words will only make them more bitter, but he represents divine truth and the message must be given to the world. He will on...
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)...
SPEAK. Greek. _lego._ All the texts read "say". Greek _laleo._ TO. unto. Greek. _eis._ App-104. OF. from [beside]. Greek. _para._ App-104....
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....
Here again we have a series of simple sentences, the precise meaning of which and their connexion with one another cannot be determined with certainty. See on John 7:33. The following seems to be the...
ΛΑΛΩ͂ (אBDLTX) for λέγω (E). 26. Here again we have a series of simple sentences, the precise meaning of which and their connexion with one another cannot be determined with certainty. see on John 7:3...
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 25. THEN SAID THEY TO HIM, WHO ARE YOU? AND JESUS SAID TO THEM, EVEN THE SAME THAT I SAID TO YOU FROM THE BEGINNING. 26. I HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY AND TO JUDGE OF YOU: BUT HE THAT SENT ME IS TRUE;...
_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...
ΠΈΜΨΑΣ _aor. act. part._ (.subst.) от ΠΈΜΠΩ (G3992) посылать. _Aor._ показывает на предшествующее действие: "тот, кто послал"....
EVEN THE SAME THAT I SAID UNTO YOU, &C.— On supposition that this is the proper translation of the passage, our Lord's meaning was, "I am that which I said to you at the beginning of this discourse, n...
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...
I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. I HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY AND TO JUDGE OF YOU: BUT HE TH...
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...
'I have much fault to find with you, but I refrain. I am not sent to judge you, but to teach you; and I teach you the absolute truth about God, which I learnt from Him before I came into the world.'...
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...
I HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY AND TO JUDGE OF YOU. — The order of thought here is not certain, and will depend, in part, upon the interpretation we give to the previous verse. These words seem to arise fr...
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...
_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...
πολλὰ ἔχω … “many things have I to speak and to judge about you,” some of which are uttered in the latter part of this chapter. ἀλλʼ ὁ πέμψας … But however hard for you to receive these things are wha...
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...
_And the things I have heard from him, &c. For Christ, to hear from his Father, to see, &c. is the same as to proceed from him, to be of the same nature and substance. See chap. v, ver. 19. (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...
“ _I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you; but he who sent me is worthy of belief, and what I have heard from him_, _that do I speak to the world._ 27. _They understood not that he sp...
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...
26._I have many things to say and judge of you. _Perceiving that he is in the position of one who sings to the deaf, he pursues his discourse no farther, but only declares that God will defend that do...
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...
I HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY, AND TO JUDGE OF YOU,.... Being God omniscient, he knew their persons and actions, their lives and conversations, and all their sins and transgressions, which he could justly...
I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. Ver. 26. _I have many things to say_] But I see I do but l...
_Then said they, Who art thou?_ This question they ask in derision, and not with any desire to be instructed. _And Jesus saith, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning_ Namely, of my pub...
MANY THINGS; he might say much more, but he confined himself to those things which would be useful, and which he was commissioned of the Father to declare....
I HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY AND TO JUDGE OF YOU; BUT HE THAT SENT ME IS TRUE; AND I SPEAK TO THE WORLD THOSE THINGS WHICH I HAVE HEARD OF HIM....
Christ's going to the Father:...
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...
Judging is not put here for judicial condemnation; but for reproving and accusing, which is one part of judging. You accuse and reprove me; I have many things of which I could also accuse and convince...
Tertullian Against Praxeas He has also heard and seen all things with the Father; and what He has been commanded by the Father, that also does He speak.[86] Tertullian Against Praxeas "He that sent...
John 8:26 have G2192 (G5719) things G4183 say G2980 (G5721) and G2532 judge G2919 (G5721) concerning...
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...
“I have much to say about you and much to pass judgment on. However he who sent me is true, and the things which I heard from him, these I speak to the world”.' Jesus now no longer saw any hope that t...
John 8:26. I HAVE MANY THINGS TO SPEAK AND TO JUDGE CONCERNING YOU. It is unavailing to speak to them, for they will not believe. Many things has He to speak concerning them, and (since every word reg...
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...
I HAVE MANY THINGS TO SPEAK AND TO JUDGE CONCERNING YOU (πολλα εχω περ υμων λαλειν κα κρινειν). Instead of further talk about his own claims (already plain enough) Jesus turns to speak and to judge...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
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...
THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND. Their minds were so filled with this world, that they had no interest in spiritual things. They would not believe that _their_ God was _his_ Father....
_Then said they unto Him, Who art Thou?_ …Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning. By thus expressing Himself, Jesus evidently declared Himself to be the expected One. He avoided, howev...
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...
_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 1:18; Hebrews 5:11; Hebrews 5:12; John 12:47; John 15
I have many things, etc. The connection of thought seems to be as follows : "I being such as my words show me to be, I must declare the whole message of Him by virtue of my essential union with whom I...
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...
I have many things to say and to judge of you — I have much to say concerning your inexcusable unbelief: but he that sent me is true — Whether ye believe or no. And I speak the things which I have hea...