Jn. 8:21 Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin. Where I go you cannot come.”
Jn. 8:22 So the Jews said, “Will He kill Himself, because He says, ‘Where I go you cannot come?’”
It becomes very obvious that they do not understand what He is saying. His confusing way of teaching is intentional.
Jn. 8:23 And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.”
Jn. 8:24 “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
Jn. 8:25 Then they said to Him, “Who are You?” And Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.”
Jn. 8:26 “I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I will speak to the world those things which I heard from Him”
Jn. 8:27 They did not understand that He spoke to them of the Father.
Jn. 8:28 Then Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.” Jn. 8:29 “And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”
Jn. 8:30 As He spoke these words, many believed in Him.
Jn. 8:31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed in Him, “If you abide in My word, you are disciples indeed.”
Jn. 8:32 “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Jn. 8:33 They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will be made free.’”
Jn. 8:34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave to sin.”
Jn. 8:35 “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”
Jn. 8:36 “And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abide forever.”
Jn. 8:37 “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.”
Jn. 8:38 “But I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father.”
Jn. 8:39 They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.”
Jn. 8:40 “But now you seek to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God Abraham did not do this.”
Jn. 8:41 “You do the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We are not born of fornication, we have one father — God.”
M;Avoth 3:14 says, “Israel is beloved because they are called the children of God. The greatest love has been manifested to them in this: they are called God’s children.” They felt that because they were the children of Abraham that automatically made them the children of God. Vs. 33 is only a half truth. They personally had never been in bondage to anyone. But, the nation of Israel had been in bondage in Egypt for some 430 years.
Source: M:Avoth 3:14
In verse no. 41 they take a swipe at Yeshua for His claim of having no earthly father. In Rabbinic literature He is called a mamzer (bastard). They actually do not believe His claim, but instead believe that He was conceived out of wedlock.
Jn. 8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceed forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He who sent Me.”
Jn. 8:43 “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”
Jn. 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”
In rabbinic literature one who told a lie was a murderer because he killed the reputation of a person. Mashal Midrash 17:4 says, “A Talmudic proverb declared, ‘the third tongue (an idiom for slander) slays three — the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of.’”
Source: Mashal Midrash 17:4
Jn. 8:45 “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.”
Jn. 8:46 “Which one of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me?”
Here Yeshua gives them the opportunity to name the sin that He is guilty of, but they cannot.
Jn. 8:47 “He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”
Jn. 8:48 Then the Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
What does a Samaritan have to do with having a demon? They know He is Jewish. Why do they call Him a Samaritan at this point, and accuse Him of having a demon? The Hebrew word for Samaritan is Shomroni. But “shomroni” in Jewish theology was also the name of a major demon. Shomroni was equivalent to Ashmadai, the prince of demons. Shomroni or Ashmadai was the father of Samael, also known as Satan.
Jn. 8:49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.”
Jn. 8:50 “And I do not seek My own glory; there is one who seeks and judges.”
Jn. 8:51 “Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word, he shall never see death.”
Jn. 8:52 Then the Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon! Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.’”
He is teaching them in terms they cannot understand, and because they can’t understand they conclude that what He is teaching is coming out of being demon possessed.
Jn. 8:53 “Are You greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. whom do You make Yourself out to be?”
Jn. 8:54 Jesus answered, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is your God.”
Jn. 8:55 “Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if you say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be a liar like you; but I do know Him and keep His Word.”
Jn. 8:56 “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
Jn. 8:57 Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
Jn. 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
With this statement Yeshua is again claiming to be God. “I Am” is a reference to the Tetragrammaton, the personal name of God (Exodus 3:14). Yeshua did pre-exist from before even the beginning of creation, but as God Himself, not a separate entity from God. There is only One God (Monotheism), not two or three, like the teaching that has developed in some of today’s Christianity.
Source: Exodus 3:14
Jn. 8:59 Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Yeshua hid Himself and went out of the Temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
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