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 # Joh 8:14
    \\My testimony is true.\\ The Pharisees disputed this.
 Ordinarily the testimony of a man that he is sent from God is
 insufficient. He may be deceived or a deceiver. But Jesus could
 not be deceived, for he knew all things; nor a deceiver, for he
 was Truth. Besides, he had other testimony.
 # 8:18
 (PNT 359-360)
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 # Joh 8:15
    \\Ye judge after the flesh.\\ According to appearances.
    \\I judge no man.\\ He lets their lives and consciences judge
 them.
 (PNT 360)
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 # Joh 8:17
    \\It is also written in your law.\\ See
 # De 19:15
 Observe Jesus says not "our," but "your" law.
 (PNT 360)
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 # Joh 8:18
    \\The Father . . . testifieth.\\ By the prophets, by the
 works that Jesus does, by his voice at the baptism, and by John
 the Baptist.
 (PNT 360)
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 # Joh 8:19
    \\Where is thy Father?\\ Asked in scorn, because he said "the
 Father beareth witness."
    \\If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father.\\ The
 knowledge of Christ leads to a knowledge of the Father. See
 # 14:8
 (PNT 360)
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 # Joh 8:20
    \\These words Jesus spoke in the treasury.\\ Of the temple.
 See note on "Mr 12:41"
 See note on "Lu 21:1"
 (PNT 360)
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 # Joh 8:21
    \\Where I go, ye cannot come.\\ Because they shall "die in
 their sins," and he will return to heaven, where the sinner
 cannot enter.
 (PNT 360)
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 # Joh 8:22
    \\Will he kill himself?\\ They understood that he referred to
 his death, but parried the thought that he would die at their
 hands. Their words were partly mockery.
 (PNT 360)
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 # Joh 8:23-25
    \\I am from above.\\ He shows more clearly that he returns to
 heaven, where they never can enter on account of their sins.
 This leads them to ask:
    \\Who art thou?\\ No doubt asked with a sneer; hence, he only
 refers them to his past words.
 (PNT 360)
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 # Joh 8:28
    \\When ye have lifted up the Son of man.\\ Lifted him up on
 the cross. His "lifting up" would be the means of breaking down
 unbelief. We can see how this was verified. In fifty days after
 he was lifted up three thousand believed in a single day, and
 the work of faith went on until the civilized world acknowledged
 him as King.
 (PNT 361)
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 # Joh 8:29
    \\The Father hath not left me alone.\\ The Father was with
 him. He was with him and in him. He was "the brightness of the
 Father's glory."
 # Heb 1:3
 He did "those things that please him," and God was with him.
 (PNT 361)
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 # Joh 8:30
    \\Many believed.\\ That he was a divine teacher.
 (PNT 361)
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 # Joh 8:31
    \\If ye continue in my word, then ye are my disciples
 \\indeed.\\ They "believed on him," but their faith was not yet
 made perfect by obedience. Hence he adds the condition of
 discipleship. Their belief must move them to accept his word and
 obey it. There is a condition, "continue in my word"; a promise,
 "shall be my disciple."
 (PNT 361)
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 # Joh 8:32
    \\And ye shall know the truth.\\ Disciples are learners.
 Their object is to know the truth. The way to know the truth is
 to obey the truth.
    \\The truth shall make you free.\\ The Gospel obeyed, frees--
 frees from the yoke of Satan, from spiritual task-masters, from
 fear, fills the soul with hope and the free spirit of a son who
 serves the Father from love.
    When whole nations obey the truth, whole nations are free.
 (PNT 361 edited)
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 # Joh 8:33
    \\We are Abraham's offspring, and were never in bondage.\\
 They trusted in their blood, rather than in obedience to the God
 of Abraham. Their proud language was false. Their nation had
 been in bondage for over six hundred years to Babylon, to
 Persia, to Macedon, to Syria, to Rome. They were also in bondage
 to sin.
 (PNT 361)
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 # Joh 8:34
    \\Whoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.\\ According
 to his custom, Christ makes no direct argument in reply, but
 states a truth and leaves them to apply it. The sinner is the
 slave of sin. See
 # Ro 7:9-24
 (PNT 361)
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 # Joh 8:35
    \\The servant abideth not in the house for ever.\\ The
 servant has no claim to remain continually in the same family,
 but may be changed at will. The son can remain because he is the
 son. The Jews, servants of sin, would soon be expelled from the
 Lord's house.
 (PNT 361-362)
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 # Joh 8:36
    \\If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free
 \\indeed.\\ If you would be free indeed you must have the
 freedom that the Son bestows, and become children. In order to
 fully comprehend the figure, read
 # Ga 4:19-21
 (PNT 362)
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 # Joh 8:37
    \\I know that ye are Abraham's offspring.\\ According to the
 flesh, but not according to the spirit. Abraham had no such
 spirit as they.
 (PNT 362)
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 # Joh 8:38
    \\I speak that which I have seen with my Father.\\ Jesus was
 the Son; he had dwelt in the Father's house. They had the spirit
 of Satan, and hence were, spiritually, his children.
 (PNT 362)
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 # Joh 8:41
    \\Ye do the deeds of your father.\\ Satan.
 (PNT 362)
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 # Joh 8:42
    \\If God were your Father, ye would love me.\\ They made this
 claim.
 # 8:41
 Their hatred of the Son was proof that they were not God's
 children.
 (PNT 362)
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 # Joh 8:43
    \\Ye cannot hear my word.\\ Cannot receive it because Satan
 has your hearts, and is your father.
 (PNT 362)
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 # Joh 8:44
    \\Ye are of [your] father, the devil.\\ There are two
 households: that of God, composed of his children; and that of
 the devil, composed of his children. All who hear the voice of
 Christ become God's children by adoption,
 # Ro 8:15-17
 and all who refuse to hear him, do so because they belong to the
 devil's household and hear his voice. They "will do the lusts of
 their father."
    \\He was a murderer from the beginning.\\ He caused the first
 murder, moves those who do murder, and those who seek to kill
 Christ are of his spirit.
 (PNT 362-363)
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 # Joh 8:46
    \\Which of you convinceth me of sin?\\ He points to his
 sinless character as a proof that there can be no falsehood in
 his words.
 (PNT 363)
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 # Joh 8:48
    \\Thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?\\ They resort to
 the language of passion and vituperation. Of all men they hated
 the Samaritans most, and hence this charge. They next accuse
 him, not of having a devil, but of being possessed with a demon,
 or evil spirit.
 (PNT 363)
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 # Joh 8:49
    \\I honour my Father.\\ He passes by in silence their first
 charge; the second he shows cannot be true, for he honours his
 Father, which a demon could not do; and yet the Jews dishonoured
 him, while he honoured the Father.
 (PNT 363)
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 # Joh 8:50
    \\I seek not my own glory.\\ He cared little therefore for
 their abuse, and sought not to defend himself.
 (PNT 363)
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 # Joh 8:51
    \\If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.\\ Here
 again is a condition and a promise. Notice
 (1) Its universal character. If any one, Jew or Gentile, male
     or female, bond or free.
 (2) The condition: "Keep my words." By obedience we are not only
     freed, but enter into life.
 (3) "Shall not see death." Death of the body is not reckoned
     death, but merely the gate through which the believer enters
     upon a more perfect life. The real death is that of the
     soul.
 (PNT 363)
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 # Joh 8:53
    \\Art thou greater than our father Abraham?\\ Their argument
 is: They that heard the word of God are dead, and shall they who
 have heard thee not die? Their question is asked in scorn.
 Compare
 # 4:12
 (PNT 363)
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 # Joh 8:54
    \\If I honour myself, my honour is nothing.\\ They had just
 asked: "Whom makest thou thyself?"
 # 8:53
 The Father, who honoureth him, will settle that question by his
 resurrection from the dead and exaltation.
 (PNT 363)
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 # Joh 8:56
    \\Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day\\, etc. Saw it
 in promise by prophetic vision; whether or not "Abraham was
 greater," he rejoiced in the hope of the revelation of Christ.
 (PNT 364)
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 # Joh 8:57
    \\And hast thou seen Abraham?\\ It had been about 2,000 years
 since the time of Abraham. Jesus did not say he had seen
 Abraham, but they pervert his words.
 (PNT 364)
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 # Joh 8:58
    \\Before Abraham was, I am.\\ A solemn and official
 declaration, preceded by "Verily, verily." The utterance is a
 remarkable one. It does not merely assert that he was before
 Abraham, but before Abraham was, I AM. It identifies with the I
 AM of the OT. Divinity has no past tense, no future tense, but
 always the present.
 (PNT 364)
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 # Joh 8:59
    \\They took up stones to cast at him.\\ They regarded his
 language blasphemy. If he had been only a man it would have
 been.
 (PNT 364)
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 # Joh 9:1
  SUMMARY OF JOHN 9
  \\The Man Born Blind\\

  Are Physical Misfortunes Judgments?
  Sometimes for the Glory of God
  The Blind Man Healed
  The Pharisees Examine Him
  They Excommunicate Him for Honouring Christ
  He Confesseth Christ

    \\He saw a man who was blind from his birth.\\ Like most such
 unfortunates in the East, he was a beggar.
 # 9:8
 (PNT 364)
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 # Joh 9:2
    \\Master, who sinned?\\ Many of our misfortunes and physical
 ills are brought on us either by our own sins, or are inherited
 from parents and caused by their sins. The disciples ask if the
 blindness is a judgment, and who caused it? They were, perhaps,
 not aware that he was blind from birth.
 (PNT 364)
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 # Joh 9:3
    \\Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents.\\ Jesus does
 not affirm that they were sinless, but that their sins were not
 the cause of the calamity. We are not justified in asserting
 that the sufferer is a sinner. Job, Christ, Paul, and the whole
 army of martyrs disprove it.
    \\But that the works of God should be revealed in him.\\ By
 his miraculous cure the work of God shall be made manifest. It
 is the work of God to believe on Christ,
 # 6:29
 and the blindness of this man was the occasion of faith being
 produced, not only in him, but others. Thus Christ shows a
 nobler use of suffering. See
 # Heb 12:6
 (PNT 364)