John 8:22
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So the Jews began to ask, “Will He kill Himself, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”
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Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself?--seeing something more in His words than before (Joh 7:35), but their question more malignant and scornful.
Open source ↗In this chapter we have, I. Christ's evading the snare which the Jews laid for him, in bringing to him a woman taken in adultery (Joh 8:1-11). II. Divers discourses or conferences of his with the Jews that cavilled at him, and sought occasion against him, and made every thing he said a matter of controversy. 1. Concerning his being the light of the world (Joh 8:12-20). 2. Concerning the ruin of the unbelieving Jews (Joh 8:21-30). 3. Concerning liberty and bondage (Joh 8:31-37). 4. Concerning his Father and their father (Joh 8:38-47). 5. Here is his discourse in answer to their blasphemous reproaches (Joh 8:48-50). 6. Concerning the immortality of believers (Joh 8:51-59). And in all this he endured the contradiction of sinners against himself.
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“Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”
“You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”
Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.
Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”
Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.