John 8

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 8:53

8:1-11 And each of them went to his own house; but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he was again in the Temple precincts, and all the people came to him. He sat down and went on teaching them. The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman arrested for adultery. They set her in the midst and said to him: "Teacher, this woman was arrested as she was committing adultery--in the very act. In the law Moses enjoined us to stone women like this. What do you say about her?" They... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 8:53

This passage shows us two things about the attitude of the scribes and the Pharisees. (i) It shows us their conception of authority. The scribes and the Pharisees were the legal experts of the day; to them problems were taken for decision. It is clear that to them authority was characteristically critical, censorious and condemnatory. That authority should be based on sympathy, that its aim should be to reclaim the criminal and the sinner, never entered their heads. They conceived of their... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 8:53

Further, this incident tells us a great deal about Jesus and his attitude to the sinner. (i) It was a first principle of Jesus that only the man who himself is without fault has the right to express judgment on the fault of others. "Judge not," said Jesus, "that you be not judged" ( Matthew 7:1 ). He said that the man who attempted to judge his brother was like a man with a plank in his own eye trying to take a speck of dust out of someone else's eye ( Matthew 7:3-5 ). One of the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 8:56-59

8:56-59 "Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it and was glad." The Jews said to him: "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them: "This is the truth I tell you--before Abraham was I am." So they lifted stones to throw them at him, but Jesus slipped out of their sight, and went out of the Temple precincts. All the previous lightning flashes pale into significance before the blaze of this passage. When Jesus said to the Jews that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 8:1

Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. Which lay eastward of Jerusalem, about a mile from it; hither Christ went on the evening of the last day of the feast of tabernacles; partly to decline the danger, and avoid the snares the Jews might lay for him in the night season; having been disappointed and confounded in the daytime; and it may be for the sake of recreation and diversion, to sup with his dear friends Lazarus, Martha, and Mary, who lived at Bethany, not far from this mount; and chiefly... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 8:2

And early in the morning he came again into the temple ,.... Which shows his diligence, constancy, and assiduity, in his ministerial work, as well as his courage and intrepidity; being fearless of his enemies, though careful to give them no advantage against him, before his time: and all the people came unto him ; which also commends the industry and diligence of his hearers, who were forward to hear him, and were early at the temple for that purpose, and that in great numbers: and he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 8:3

And the Scribes and Pharisees ,.... The members of the sanhedrim, who had been so miserably disappointed the day before, were no less diligent and industrious in their wicked way, seeking all opportunities, and taking all advantages against Christ; and fancying they had got something whereby to ensnare him, and bring him into disgrace or danger, they pursue it; and brought unto him a woman taken in adultery ; who, as some conjecture, might have been taken in it the day before, in one of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 8:4

They say unto him, Master ,.... They applied to him in a handsome and respectful manner, the better to cover their ill design: this woman was taken in adultery ; by two persons at least, who could be witnesses of it; otherwise the accusation was not legal; see Deuteronomy 19:15 ; though in the case of a wife suspected of adultery, they admitted a single witness as valid F6 Maimon. Hilchot Eduth, c. 5. sect. 2. : in the very act ; or "in the theft itself", for adultery is a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 8:5

Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should, be stoned ,.... Not in Leviticus 20:10 ; for though according to the law there, an adulteress, one that was a married woman, and so an adulterer, that was a married man, were to be put to death; yet the death was not stoning, but strangling; for it is a rule with the Jews F7 Maimon. Hilchot Issure Bia, c. 1. sect. 6. , that where death is simply mentioned (without restraining it to any particular kind) strangling is intended, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 8:6

This they said, tempting him ,.... For they brought this woman, and exposed her in this manner, not because of their abhorrence and detestation of the sin; nor did they put the above question to Christ, out of their great respect to the law of Moses; which in many instances, and so in this, they in a great measure made void, by their traditions; for they say, that for such an offence as adultery, they did not put to death, nor beat, unless there was a previous admonition; the use of which... read more

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 8:53

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 8:53

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 8:53

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 8:56-59

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 8:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 8:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 8:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 8:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 8:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 8:6

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