John 8:57 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? ”

• John 8:57 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Fifty years old - Jesus is supposed to have been at this time about the age of 33. It is remarkable that when he was so young they should have mentioned the number 50, but they probably designed...

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• John 8:57 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 par...

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• John 8:57 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  57. Thou art not yet fifty years old. They endeavor to refute Christ’s saying, by showing that he had asserted what was impossible, when he who was not yet fifty years of age makes himself...

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• John 8:57 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Thou art not yet fifty years old - Some MSS. read forty. The age of our blessed Lord has never been properly...

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• John 8:57 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Thou art not yet fifty yearn old,— Understanding what our Lord laid in a natural sense, the Jews thought he affirmed that he lived as man in the days of Abraham; which they considered as ridiculous...

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• John 8:57 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old. No inference, as Alford properly says...

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• John 8:57 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 Fou...

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• John 8:57 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thou art not yet fifty years old. — There is no reason to doubt that we have the correct reading here, though some, from Chrysostom downward, have sought to avoid what seemed to them a difficulty,...

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• John 8:57 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• John 8:57 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Eternal Christ John 8:48-59 It is absolutely true that the Christian disciple does see death as the king of terrors or as a grim monster. Jesus has robbed death of its sting; He has destroy...

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• John 8:57 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 r...

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• John 8:57 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Why do ye not understand my speech; even because ye cannot hear my word. (44) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode...

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• John 8:57 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then said the Jews unto him, thou art not yet fifty years old ,.... One copy reads forty, but he was not that; no, not much more than thirty; not above two or three and thirty years old: the reason...

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• John 8:57 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Ver. 57. Thou art not yet fifty ] No, nor much past thirty; and yet he had so spent himself in winning s...

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• John 8:57 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day Ηγαλλιασατο ινα ιδη την ημεραν, exulted with desire, to see my day. “The words ινα ιδη, that he might see , immediately following the verb, show,” as D...

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• John 8:57 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 pr...

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• John 8:57 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees       51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.   52 Th...

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• John 8:57 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Christ was at this time but three and thirty years old, and upward: they dream of Abraham's seeing him, and his seeing Abraham, with bodily eyes, of which Christ said nothing; that indeed had been a...

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• John 8:57 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Chapter 8 Jesus - The Light of the World and the ‘I am' ( John 8:12-59 ). 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 Isa...

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• John 8:57 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 8:13 . They forgot His vindication of Himself ( John 5:31-37 ). John 8:14 . Even if I bear record, etc. —Although He was content to let the Father witness o...

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• John 8:57 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• John 8:57 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 publ...

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• John 8:57 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 ; Romans 6:16-17 ; Galatian...

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• John 8:57 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Verses 7:53-8:11 (8) The pericope adulterae. (a) Excursus on the genuineness of John 7:53-43 John 7:53-43 John 7:53-43 . It is our duty to examine the various grounds on...

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• John 8:57 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The attempt to kill the Lord:

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• John 8:57 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Thou art not yet fifty years old — At the most. Perhaps the gravity of our Lord's countenance, together with his afflictions and labours, might make him appear older than he really was. Hast thou s...

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