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03200
 # Joh 7:16
    \\My doctrine is not mine.\\ This is an answer to the
 question of v. 15. His knowledge came not from man, but from
 God.
 # 7:15
 (PNT 355)
03201
 # Joh 7:17
    \\If any man will do his will, he shall know concerning this
 \\doctrine.\\ The KJV is ambiguous. The ASV is clear: "If any
 man willeth to do", etc. The difficulty is in the way of the
 Jews recognizing the teaching of Jesus as divine, was that they
 were not willing to do God's will. This spirit of disobedience
 is the source of most, if not all, scepticism. Unbelief is due,
 not to the head, but to the heart. He who in his heart says,
 "Thy will be done, give me light and I will walk in it," will
 find that Christ is just the teacher demanded by his soul, and
 that the gospel meets his soul's want. Jesus will so meet the
 wants of his soul that he will be satisfied and will know the
 doctrine, that it comes from him who made the soul. The great
 German poet, Heine, was a scoffer until old and tortured with
 chronic disease. Then he said: "I have discarded my proud
 philosophy and learned to trust in the consolations of
 religion." He had no more outward evidence than before, but his
 heart had changed.
 (PNT 355)
03203
 # Joh 7:19
    \\Did not Moses give you the law?\\ Yet they were seeking to
 kill him in violation of the law which they professed to keep.
 (PNT 355)
03204
 # Joh 7:20
    \\The people answered.\\ Not "the Jews," but the masses. They
 did not then know that the rulers were seeking his death, and
 hence rebukes such a suggestion.
    \\Thou hast a demon.\\ Such a mistake must be due to the
 whisper of a demon, they thought.
 (PNT 355)
03205
 # Joh 7:21
    \\I have done one work.\\ He goes back to the cause of the
 enmity of the rulers, the healing of the impotent man at the
 pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath day, about eighteen months
 before. See
 # 5:16
 (PNT 355)
03207
 # Joh 7:23-24
    \\If a man on the sabbath\\, etc.? The argument is this: You
 blame me for healing an impotent man on the Sabbath; yet you
 break the Sabbath to circumcise a child if the eighth day after
 its birth falls on the Sabbath. You say that the law of
 circumcision was given to Abraham, is older than the Sabbath
 law, and must be kept if the Sabbath is to be broken. Now the
 law of love and mercy is older than Moses; why find fault if it
 is kept on the Sabbath? They should judge righteously, instead
 of by outward appearance.
 (PNT 355-356)
03209
 # Joh 7:25
    \\Some of them of Jerusalem.\\ Citizens who understood the
 purposes of the rulers, of which the visitors were ignorant.
 (PNT 356)
03210
 # Joh 7:26
    \\Do the rulers know\\, etc.? As they did not seize him
 according to their purpose, the question arose what had changed
 the mind of the rulers. Had they found out that he was the
 Christ?
 (PNT 356)
03211
 # Joh 7:27
    \\But we know this man where he is from.\\ The Jews had an
 idea, due probably to Daniel, that when the Messiah came no one
 would know from whence he came.
 # Da 7:13
 (PNT 356)
03212
 # Joh 7:28
    \\Ye know where I am from.\\ This is a reply to their
 assertion that they did. If they really did they would know that
 he came from God. They did not even know God, or they would know
 him whom God sent.
 (PNT 356)
03214
 # Joh 7:30
    \\They sought to take him.\\ "They of Jerusalem," angered
 because he said they did not know God. This was the attempt of a
 mob, not an official act.
 (PNT 356)
03215
 # Joh 7:31
    \\Many of the people believed.\\ Not intelligently, but that
 he was a teacher sent from God, and possibly the Christ. Compare
 # 3:1,2
 (PNT 356)
03216
 # Joh 7:32
    \\The Pharisees heard.\\ The bitterest enemies of Christ.
 When they heard that the people were believing, they thought it
 time for action, so
    \\the Pharisees and chief priests\\, that is, the Sanhedrin,
 sent officers to seize him. This was an official act, the first
 official attempt of the Sanhedrin to take Jesus. They had
 purposed it before, but had not taken action.
 (PNT 356)
03217
 # Joh 7:33
    \\Yet a little while I am with you.\\ Aware of the rulers, he
 foretells his return to heaven.
 (PNT 356)
03218
 # Joh 7:34
    \\Where I am, [there] ye cannot come.\\ Not while on earth,
 neither after life is over, if they die in their sins.
 # 8:21
 The Jews did not comprehend his words, plain as they are to us.
 (PNT 356)
03221
 # Joh 7:37
    \\In the last day.\\ Probably the eighth day, possibly the
 seventh. The eighth was a day of holy rest added to the seven
 days of the feast.
    \\If any man thirsteth, let him\\, etc. Jewish writers say
 that water was brought every day of the feast in a golden
 pitcher from the pool of Siloam and poured upon the altar. It is
 thought that it was when this water was poured out that Jesus
 cried out, and pointed to the living water.
 (PNT 357)
03222
 # Joh 7:38
    \\He that believeth on me.\\ Notice that "believing"
 corresponds to "coming" in the preceding verse, showing that
 faith is the means that brings us to Christ.
 # 7:37
    \\As the scripture hath said.\\ The reference is not to any
 single passage, but to the spirit of the Scripture, notably such
 passages as
 # Isa 55:1 58:11 Ps 36:8-9
    \\Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.\\
 Christ is the living water; he who believes upon Christ formed
 within him, and hence must become a fountain to dispense the
 living water whatever he goes.
 (PNT 357)
03223
 # Joh 7:39
    \\This he spoke of the Spirit, which they that believe on him
 \\should receive.\\ This declaration of John makes the second
 chapter of Acts the best commentary on the preceding verse.
 Luther says: "So St. Peter, by one sermon on the day of
 Pentecost, as by a rushing of water, delivered three thousand
 men from the devil's kingdom, washing them in an hour from sin,
 death and Satan."
    \\Because Jesus was not yet glorified.\\ Let it be noted:
 (1) That the Holy Spirit was not given until after the death and
     ascension of Jesus.
 (2) The disciples of Christ did not become "fountains of living
     water" until the Holy Spirit was sent.
 This marks Pentecost as the beginning of the preaching of the
 gospel authoritatively by his disciples.
 (PNT 357)
03225
 # Joh 7:41
    \\Others said, This is the Christ.\\ Others asserted that he
 was the Christ. The opponents denied this, and based their
 opposition, not upon his character, or his teaching, but upon
 the fact that he came from Galilee. They did not know that he
 was born at Bethlehem, according to the prophecies.
 # Mic 5:2
03226
 # Joh 7:42
    \\The seed of David.\\ See
 # Isa 11:1 Jer 23:5 Ps 89:36
 (PNT 357)
03229
 # Joh 7:45
    \\Then came the officers to the chief priests and
 \\Pharisees.\\ These were the temple police, Levites under the
 direction of the chief priests. We are told that the chief
 priests, instigated by the Pharisees, had sent the officers to
 arrest him.
 # 7:32
 (PNT 358)
03230
 # Joh 7:46
    \\Never man spoke like this man.\\ The only answer the
 officers could make to the demand why they had not carried out
 orders was, "Man never spake like this man." The multitude had
 not overawed them, but the words of Christ.
 (PNT 358)
03231
 # Joh 7:47
    \\Then the Pharisees answered them\\, etc. The Pharisees
 charge the officers in language of scorn.
 (PNT 358)
03232
 # Joh 7:48
    \\Have any of the rulers . . . believed on him?\\ By rulers
 are meant the Sanhedrin. In the matter of deciding on the claims
 of the Messiah they hold that the judgment of the "rulers" must
 be decisive. They were not probably aware that Nicodemus was
 really a secret believer, and that another "senator," Joseph,
 would reveal himself at the proper time.
 (PNT 358)
03233
 # Joh 7:49
    \\This people . . . are cursed.\\ The argument was "Not the
 Sanhedrin, but the rabble are the believers upon him. They are
 utterly ignorant of the law and are accursed. On account of
 their ignorance they are easily led astray."
 (PNT 358)
03234
 # Joh 7:50
    \\Nicodemus.\\
    See note on "Joh 3:1"
 (PNT 358)
03235
 # Joh 7:51
    \\Dost our law judge\\, etc.? Of course it did not, but for
 him to say a word in defense of justice brought the charge that
 he was a follower of the Galilean.
 (PNT 358)
03236
 # Joh 7:52
    \\Out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.\\ The rulers in their
 rage make a false statement. Jonah, Elijah, and Nahum were all
 of Galilee.
 # 2Ki 14:25 1Ki 17:1 Na 1:1
 (PNT 358)
03238
 # Joh 8:1
  SUMMARY OF JOHN 8
  \\Christ Teaching in Jerusalem\\

  The Woman Taken in Adultery
  The Light of the World
  The Father's Witness
  Freedom by the Truth
  Abraham's Seed
  The Son of Man before Abraham

    \\Went to the mount of Olives.\\ For the night, as he was
 wont to do the last week of his life.
 (PNT 358)
03240
 # Joh 8:3
    \\The scribes and Pharisees.\\ The scribes were theologians.
 They brought this woman to Jesus for trial to see what he would
 decide, and to criticize him. They wished grounds for charges.
 # 8:6
 (PNT 358-359)
03242
 # Joh 8:5
    \\Moses in the law commanded us.\\ See
 # De 22:22 Le 20:10
 (PNT 359)
03243
 # Joh 8:6
    \\Jesus stooped down, and . . . wrote.\\ As though to say he
 understood their purposes and would pay no attention to them.
 This is the only time in the NT that our Lord is described as
 writing.
 (PNT 359)
03244
 # Joh 8:7-9
    \\He that is without sin among you.\\ When they persisted,
 saying, "What sayest thou?" he said what was an awful rebuke.
 They knew that he knew their lives, that they were as guilty as
 the woman they had brought. They forgot the demand of Moses that
 the witnesses should cast the first stone,
 # De 17:5-7
 and his answer was like a bolt of lightning. Covered with shame,
 when he stooped and wrote again, they "went out one by one."
 (PNT 359)
03248
 # Joh 8:11
    \\Neither do I condemn thee.\\ Here is mercy.
    \\Go, and sin no more.\\ Here is admonition; the condition of
 her final pardon. He is very merciful, but does not excuse sin.
 (PNT 359)
03249
 # Joh 8:12
    \\I am the light of the world.\\ He then began his discourse
 to the people assembled.
 See note on "Mt 5:14"
 See note on "Joh 1:6"
 See note on "Joh 1:9"
 See note on "Joh 1:10"
 (PNT 359)