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**Jesus** = But Jesus. Connecting [John 8:1](../../../kjv/john/8/1) with Joh 7:63 . See App-98 .
**unto** . Greek. *eis.* App-104 .

**early in the morning** = at dawn.
**into** = unto, as in [John 8:1](../../../kjv/john/8/1) .
**temple** . Greek. *hieron.* See note on [Matthew 23:16](../../../kjv/matthew/23/16) .
**people.** Greek. *laos.* In John's Gospel only here, [John 11:50](../../../kjv/john/11/50) ; [John 18:14](../../../kjv/john/18/14) . Not *ochlos,* or *plethos.*
**unto** . Greek. *pros.* App-104 .
**sat down . . . and** = having sat down.
**taught** = was teaching.

**Pharisees** . See App-120 .
**brought** = bring.
**taken** = having been taken. in. Greek. *en.* App-104 ,

**Master** =
**Teacher** . App-98 . [John 8:1](../../../kjv/john/8/1) .
**in the very act** . Greek. *ep'* ( App-104 .) autophoro. Autophoros means self-detected.

**Moses.** See note on [John 1:17](../../../kjv/john/1/17) .
**commanded . . . stoned** . This law referred only to a "betrothed damsel "([Deuteronomy 22:24](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/22/24) ); and to show that the Lord knew their thoughts, and knew also that this was another man's "wife". He complied with the law prescribed in "such" a case ([Numbers 5:11-31](../../../kjv/numbers/5/11-31) ), and stooped down and wrote the curses (as required in [John 8:23](../../../kjv/john/8/23) ) on the ground.
**but** = therefore.

**tempting** = testing. The temptation was in the word "such", and of two cases they mention the punishment without defining what it was: for the one in [Deuteronomy 22:23](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/22/23) , [Deuteronomy 22:24](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/22/24) (a virgin) the death was stoning; but in the case of a "wife" the punishment was *not* stoning, but required a special procedure ([Numbers 5:11-31](../../../kjv/numbers/5/11-31) , which left the punishment with God.
**that =** in order that. Greek. *hina.*
**on,** &o. = into (Greek *eis.* App-104 .) [the dust of] the earth ( App-129 .).

**asking.** App-134 .,
**lifted up** . Greek. *anakupto.* Only here, [John 8:10](../../../kjv/john/8/10) . [Luke 13:11](../../../kjv/luke/13/11) ; [Luke 21:28](../../../kjv/luke/21/28) .
**without sin** = sinless. Greek. *anamartetos.* Compare App-128 . Occ, nowhere else in the N.T.
**a stone** = the stone, i.e. the heavy stone for execution. Compare Joh 8:69 .
**at** = upon. Greek. *epi.* App-104 .

**wrote** . The curses, as before.

**convicted** , &c. By the manifestation of the Lord's knowledge of what was in their hearts and of what they were concealing for the purpose of tempting Him. Greek. *elencho.* Same word as in [John 8:46](../../../kjv/john/8/46) ; [John 5:20](../../../kjv/john/5/20) ; [John 16:8](../../../kjv/john/16/8) .
**by.** Greek. *hupo.* App-104 .
**at** = from. Greek. *apo.* App-104 .
**eldest** = elders.
**unto** = as far as.

**saw** . App-133 .
**none** . Greek. *medeis.*
**but** = except. Greek. *plen,*
**no man** = no one. Greek. *oudeis.*
**condemned.** App-122 .

**Lord** . See App-98 . B. a.
**thee** . He does not say *"thy sin".* He speaks judicially.
**sin** . App-128 .

**Then** = Therefore.
**again** . This section has no necessary connection with Joh 7:62 , but refers to a subsequent occasion in "the Treasury" ([John 8:20](../../../kjv/john/8/20) ).
**I am** . See note on [John 6:35](../../../kjv/john/6/35) ,
**light.** Greek. *phos* ( App-130 .) Not *luchnos* as in [John 5:36](../../../kjv/john/5/36) ( App-130 .) One of the characteristic words of this Gospel. See note on [John 1:4](../../../kjv/john/1/4) .
**world** . App-129 . See note on [John 1:9](../../../kjv/john/1/9) . Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of the Subject), App-6 , for its inhabitants without distinction, implying others than Jews.
**not** = in no wise. Greek. *ou me.* App-105 .
**shall have** = not merely see it, but possess it.
**life** = the life. App-170 . See note on [John 1:4](../../../kjv/john/1/4) .

**bearest record** . See note on [John 1:32](../../../kjv/john/1/32) .
**of** = concerning. Greek. *peri.* App-104 .
**record.** See note on [John 1:19](../../../kjv/john/1/19) .
**not** . Greek. *ou* ( App-105 ).
**true** . Greek. *alethes.* See App-176 and note on [John 3:33](../../../kjv/john/3/33) .

**answered and said** . See App-122 and note on [Deuteronomy 1:41](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/41) .
**Though** = Even if. App-118 .
**know.** Greek. *oida.* App-132 . See note on [John 1:26](../../../kjv/john/1/26) .
**cannot tell** = know (Greek. *oida)* not ( App-105 ).
**and.** All the texts read "or".

**judge** . See App-122 and note on [John 5:22](../../../kjv/john/5/22) .
**after** = according to. Greek. *kata.* App-104 .
**flesh** . See note on [John 1:13](../../../kjv/john/1/13) .

**if** . Assuming the condition. App-118 .
**judgment.** App-177 .
**the Father** . See note on [John 1:14](../../../kjv/john/1/14) .
**sent.** See App-174 and note on [John 1:22](../../../kjv/john/1/22) .

**It is . . . written** = It has been (and standeth) written.
**also . . . law** = law also, *your* law.
**your** your own. Greek. *humeteros.* Emphatic Compare [John 7:49](../../../kjv/john/7/49) .
**testimony** . Gr, *marturia.* See note on "record", [John 8:13](../../../kjv/john/8/13) .
**two.** See [Deuteronomy 19:16](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/19/16) .

**bear witness** . Same as "bear record" in [John 8:13](../../../kjv/john/8/13) . See note on [John 1:7](../../../kjv/john/1/7) .

**neither . . . nor.** Greek. *oute,* compound of ou. App-105 .
**My Father** . See note on [John 2:16](../../../kjv/john/2/16) .
**if.** A true hypothesis. App-118 .
**should** = would.

**words.** Greek. *rhema.* See note on [Mark 9:32](../../../kjv/mark/9/32) .
**the treasury.** A part of the Temple, in the court of the women. Occurs in [Mark 12:41](../../../kjv/mark/12/41) , [Mark 12:43](../../../kjv/mark/12/43) .[Luke 21:1](../../../kjv/luke/21/1) , and John only here.
**as He taught** = teaching.
**laid hands** = arrested. See [John 7:30](../../../kjv/john/7/30) , [John 7:32](../../../kjv/john/7/32) , [John 7:44](../../../kjv/john/7/44) .
**not yet come** . See note on [John 7:6](../../../kjv/john/7/6) .

**go My way** = withdraw Myself.
**shall** = will.
**sins** = sin. See App-128 . The sin of rejecting Him.
**cannot** = are not (Greek. *ou)* able to.

**Jews.** See note on [John 1:19](../../../kjv/john/1/19) ,
**'Will He kill Himself?** = Surely He will not (Greek. *met)* kill Himself?

**ye are from beneath** ; i.e. of the earth. See [1 Corinthians 15:47](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/15/47) . The phrase occurs only in this Gospel.
**from** = out from. Greek. *ek.* App-104 . Compare [John 1:46](../../../kjv/john/1/46) .
**from above** . Greek *ek ton ano (plural)* = the heavens. See [John 3:13](../../../kjv/john/3/13) , [John 3:31](../../../kjv/john/3/31) ; [John 6:33](../../../kjv/john/6/33) , [John 6:38](../../../kjv/john/6/38) , [2 Chronicles 3:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/1); [2 Chronicles 3:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/1)[2 Chronicles 3:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/1)
**of** . Gr *ek,* as above.

**believe** . See note on [John 1:7](../../../kjv/john/1/7) , and App-150 .
**I am He** = I am. There is no "He "in the Greek See note on [John 6:35](../../../kjv/john/6/35) .
**sins.** Plural here. See [John 8:21](../../../kjv/john/8/21) .

**Even the same that . . . beginning** = He Whom I say also to you at the beginning [of this colloquy, verses: [John 8:12-20](../../../kjv/john/8/12-20) ]. Compare Septuagint, [Genesis 43:18](../../../kjv/genesis/43/18) , [Genesis 43:20](../../../kjv/genesis/43/20) = at the beginning [of our coming down] = at the first.
**from the beginning** . There is no "from" in the Gr See note on [John 8:44](../../../kjv/john/8/44) .

**speak** . Greek. *lego.* All the texts read "say". Greek *laleo.*
**to** = unto. Greek. *eis.* App-104 .
**of** = from [beside]. Greek. *para.* App-104 .

**understood not** = did not get to know. App-132 . See note on [John 1:10](../../../kjv/john/1/10) .
**spake** = was speaking. Not "saying", as in [John 8:26](../../../kjv/john/8/26) .
**Father** . See note on [John 1:14](../../../kjv/john/1/14) .

**When . . . then** . Revealing that, after that, men would believe in the truth of His Deity,
**have** = may, or shall have,
**lifted up** . Compare [John 3:14](../../../kjv/john/3/14) ; [John 12:34](../../../kjv/john/12/34) .
**Son of man** . App-98 .
**know** . App-132 . , as in [John 8:27](../../../kjv/john/8/27) . I do, &c. Note the complex *Ellipsis* ( App-6 ) = "Of Myself I do nothing [nor speak); but according as the Father taught Me, these things I speak [and do them]".
**nothing** . Greek *ouden.*
**of** = from. Greek. *apo.* App-101 .
**hath taught** = taught.
**I speak** , &c. See note on "My doctrine", [John 7:16](../../../kjv/john/7/16) .

**with** . Greek. *meta.* App-104 .
**alone.** Compare [John 8:16](../../../kjv/john/8/16) .
**I do always,** &c. = I do the things pleasing to Him always. The last word in the sentence in the Greek emphasized by the Figure of speech *Hyperbaton* ( App-6 ).

**words** = things. believed on. See note on [John 1:7](../../../kjv/john/1/7) , and App-150 . Compare [John 8:31](../../../kjv/john/8/31) .

**said** = spake, as in [John 8:27](../../../kjv/john/8/27) , [John 8:28](../../../kjv/john/8/28) .
**to.** Greek *pros,* App-104 .
**believed on** = had believed. App-160 . Thus distinguishing these Jews from the true believers of [John 8:30](../../../kjv/john/8/30) . Note the emphatic word "ye" in next clause.
**continue** = abide. See note on [John 1:32](../../../kjv/john/1/32) .
**My word** = the word which is Mine. Greek. *logos.* See note on [Mark 9:32](../../../kjv/mark/9/32) .
**are ye** = ye are.
**indeed** = truly. Greek. *alethos,* See note on [John 1:47](../../../kjv/john/1/47) .
**Trusting in Him** , not merely admitting His claims.

**truth.** See note on [John 1:14](../../../kjv/john/1/14) ,
**make** = set.

**were never. any man** , &c. Have been in bondage to no one ( App-105 ) at any time. Thus ignoring all historical facts. These were "the Jews" who believed in [John 8:31](../../../kjv/john/8/31) , and thus proved themselves not "believers indeed".

**Verily, verily** . Called forth by this manifest misrepresentation of the truth. The twelfth occurance. See [John 1:51](../../../kjv/john/1/51) .
**Whosoever** = Every one who.
**committeth** = doeth or practiseth.
**sin.** Not a single act, but a life of sin itself. Same as "sin "in [John 8:21](../../../kjv/john/8/21) .
**the servant** = a bondservant.

**abideth** . See note on [John 1:32](../../../kjv/john/1/32) .
**for ever** . See App-151 . a, He may be sold or manumitted.
**the Son.** Greek *huios.* App-108 . Never used of *believers* in this Gospel. This word is reserved for Christ only. See note 2, p. 1511.
**ever** = for ever, as above.

**ye shall be free indeed** = ye will be really free. indeed. Greek. *ontos.* Not the same word as in [John 8:31](../../../kjv/john/8/31) . Compare [1 Timothy 6:19](../../../kjv/1-timothy/6/19) , Revised Version.

**hath no place** = findeth no entrance. Compare Thess. [John 2:13](../../../kjv/john/2/13) .
**no** = not. Greek. *ou.* App-105 .

**have seen.** Greek. *horao.* App-133 .
**with.** Greek. *para.* App-104 .
**ye have seen** . All the texts read = ye have heard. But not the Syriac. See App-94 . note 8, p. 136.

**children** . Greek. Plural of *teknon.* App-108 . See note 2.
**works** . See note on [John 4:34](../../../kjv/john/4/34) .

**a Man** . Greek. *anthropos.* *App-123* *.* Used by the Lord of Himself only here, and in contrast with the "manslayer "of [John 8:44](../../../kjv/john/8/44) .
**God** . App-98 .

**do** = are doing.
**deeds** = works, as in [John 8:39](../../../kjv/john/8/39) .
**be not born** = have not been begotten (see [Matthew 1:2](../../../kjv/matthew/1/2) ).

**love** . Greek *agapao.* App-136 .
**came** = am here.
**neither** = not even. Greek. *oude.*
**came I** = am I come.
**sent** . Greek. *apostello.* App-174 .

**understand** = get to know. App-132 .
**speech.** Referring to the *form* of the discourse.
**hear.** Hebrew idiom = understand, receive, or believe, as in [John 9:27](../../../kjv/john/9/27) ; [John 10:3](../../../kjv/john/10/3) ; [John 12:47](../../../kjv/john/12/47) . [Acts 3:22-23](../../../kjv/acts/3/22-23) .[Galatians 1:4](../../../kjv/galatians/1/4) , [Galatians 1:21](../../../kjv/galatians/1/21) .
**word.** Denoting the *subject* of the discourse.

**devil.** Greek. *diabolos.* Thrice in this Gospel: here, [John 6:70](../../../kjv/john/6/70) ; [John 13:2](../../../kjv/john/13/2) . Not the same word as in verses: [John 8:48](../../../kjv/john/8/48) , [John 8:49](../../../kjv/john/8/49) .
**lusts** = strong desires of all kinds. Compare [Mark 4:10](../../../kjv/mark/4/10) . The only occurance of *epithumia* in John's Gospel. Occurs in [1 John 2:16](../../../kjv/1-john/2/16) , [1 John 2:17](../../../kjv/1-john/2/17) , and [Revelation 18:14](../../../kjv/revelation/18/14) .
**will do** = will ( App-102 .) to do (two verbs).
**murderer** = manslayer. Occurs only here and in [1 John 3:15](../../../kjv/1-john/3/15) . Because death came through him. Compare [Hebrews 2:14](../../../kjv/hebrews/2/14) .
**from the beginning** . Greek. *ap' archies.* The expression occurs twenty-one times, and the dependent noun must be supplied. In [Matthew 19:4](../../../kjv/matthew/19/4) , [Matthew 19:8](../../../kjv/matthew/19/8) ; [Matthew 24:21](../../../kjv/matthew/24/21) .[Mark 10:6](../../../kjv/mark/10/6) ; [Mark 13:19](../../../kjv/mark/13/19) . [2 Peter 3:4](../../../kjv/2-peter/3/4) , we must supply "from the beginning [of the creation]". Here we must supply "[of the human race]". In [Luke 1:2](../../../kjv/luke/1/2) , [John 15:27](../../../kjv/john/15/27) . [1 John 1:1](../../../kjv/1-john/1/1) we must supply "[of the Lord's ministry]". In [Acts 26:4](../../../kjv/acts/26/4) , supply "[of my public life]". [1 John 2:7](../../../kjv/1-john/2/7) ; [1 John 2:7](../../../kjv/1-john/2/7) (all the texts, with Syriac, omit), 13, 14, 24, 24; [1 John 3:11](../../../kjv/1-john/3/11) [or [John 3:11](../../../kjv/john/3/11) ?]; 2John [Chapters?] 5, 6 supply "[of your hearing ]".
**abode not** = stood not. His fall must have taken place before [Genesis 3:1](../../../kjv/genesis/3/1) . Probably in "the world that then was "([Genesis 1:1](../../../kjv/genesis/1/1) . [2 Peter 3:6](../../../kjv/2-peter/3/6) ).
**a** = the. Compare [2 Thessalonians 2:11](../../../kjv/2-thessalonians/2/11) .
**his own** . Compare [John 15:19](../../../kjv/john/15/19) .

**And** = But
**tell you** = speak.
**believe Me** . App-150 . See note on [John 1:7](../../../kjv/john/1/7) .

**convinceth** = convicteth. Compare [John 8:9](../../../kjv/john/8/9) ; [John 3:20](../../../kjv/john/3/20) ; [John 16:8](../../../kjv/john/16/8) ("reprove").

**He that,** &c. Note the Introversion in the structure of [John 8:47](../../../kjv/john/8/47) ,
**words** = sayings. Greek. *rhema.* See note on [Mark 9:32](../../../kjv/mark/9/32) .

**devil** = demon. Greek *daimonion.* Compare [John 7:20](../../../kjv/john/7/20) .

**honour.** Compare [John 5:23](../../../kjv/john/5/23) .

**glory.** See note on [John 1:14](../../../kjv/john/1/14) .

**keep.** Greek. *area,* implying watching rather than guarding. See notes on [John 17:12](../../../kjv/john/17/12) .
**saying** = word. Greek. *logos.* See note on [Mark 9:32](../../../kjv/mark/9/32) .
**never see death** = by no means (Greek. *ou me.* App-105 ) see ( App-133 ) death for ever (Greek. *eis ton aiona.* App-151 ): i.e. eternal death, because he will have part in the "resurrection unto life" as declared by the Lord in [John 11:25](../../../kjv/john/11/25) . See notes there.
**see death** . The expression Occurs only here in N.T.

**is dead** = died.
**taste of death** . They altered the Lord's words. Not an O.T. term. Occurs five times: here; [Matthew 16:28](../../../kjv/matthew/16/28) . [Mark 9:1](../../../kjv/mark/9/1) .[Luke 9:27](../../../kjv/luke/9/27) . [Hebrews 2:9](../../../kjv/hebrews/2/9) .

**honour** = glorify. Greek *doxazo.* See p. 1511.
**honour** = glory. See note on [John 5:41](../../../kjv/john/5/41) .

**rejoiced** = leaped for joy. Greek. *agalliao.* Compare [John 5:35](../../../kjv/john/5/35) .
**to** = in order that (Greek. *hina)* he might.
**see.** App-133 . Therefore Abraham must have heard of it from Jehovah, for "faith cometh by hearing" ([Romans 10:17](../../../kjv/romans/10/17) ).
**My day** = the day, Mine; i.e. the day of My promised coming.
**he saw** = he saw [it, by faith]. App-133 .
**was glad** = rejoiced. Greek. *chairo.* Compare [John 3:29](../../../kjv/john/3/29) .

**was** = came into existence: i.e. was born.
**I am** . See note on [John 6:35](../../../kjv/john/6/35) .

**took . . . up stones** . And thus would murder the great Prophet Himself. Compare [John 10:31](../../../kjv/john/10/31) , [John 10:39](../../../kjv/john/10/39) and [Matthew 23:31](../../../kjv/matthew/23/31) , [Matthew 23:37](../../../kjv/matthew/23/37) . stones, i.e. heavy stones. Compare [John 8:7](../../../kjv/john/8/7) . The Temple was not yet finished, and stones would be lying about. Lightfoot, vol. xii, pp. 247-9, 324.
**at** = upon. Greek. *epi.* App-104 .
**went** = went forth.
**out of** . Greek. ek. App-104 .
**through** . Greek *dia.* App-104 .[John 8:1](../../../kjv/john/8/1) .
**passed by** . All the texts omit this clause, but not, the Syriac. See note 3, p. 1511, and on [John 9:1](../../../kjv/john/9/1) .

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