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18 myself. Whoever speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory but whoever seeketh his glory who sent him, he 19 is true, and unrighteousness is not in him. Did not Mo

ses give you the law; and yet none of you keepeth the 20 law? Why seek ye to kill me?" The multitude answered and said, "Thou hast a demon: Who seeketh to kill 21 thee?" Jesus answered and said unto them, "I have 22 done one work, and ye all wonder at it. Moses gave you circumcision; (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers; and ye on the sabbath circumcise a man. 23 If a man on the sabbath receive circumcision, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye angry with me, because I made a man altogether well on the sabbath? 24 Judge not according to appearance; but judge righteous 25 judgement." Then some inhabitants of Jerusalem said, 26 "Is not this he whom they seek to kill? but, lo, he speak

eth boldly; and nothing is said unto him. Do the rulers 27 know indeed that this is the Christ? However, we know

whence this man is: but, when Christ cometh, none 28 knoweth whence he is §." Then Jesus cried out in the temple, as he taught, saying, "Do ye both know me, and know whence I am ? and yet I am not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom ye know not. 29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent 30 me." Then the Jews sought to apprehend him: yet no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet 31 come. But many of the multitude believed in him, and

* Or, wonder. Concerning this matter, Moses, &c. Compare the Greek with Mark

vi. 6: Rev. xvii. 7: supposing the stop placed after dia Tšto.

These words have the appearance of a marginal annotation inserted in the text. N.
The very Christ, R. T.

It was a tradition of the Jews, that after the Messiah was born he would be conveyed away and miraculously concealed till Elias came to reveal and anoint him. See Whitby in loc. This tradition seems to be alluded to, Matt. xii. 38; xvi, 1; Mark viii. 11; Luke xi. 16; Matt. xxiv. 3. 30.

Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am. N. See Doddridge, Campbell, Wakefield.

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said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than [these] which this man hath done ?”

The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring such things about him; and the Pharisees and the chief-priests 33 sent officers to apprehend him. Jesus therefore said, "Yet a little time longer I shall be with you; and then I 34 shall go to him who sent me. Ye will seek me, and will not find me; and where I shall be, thither ye cannot 35 come." The Jews therefore said among themselves,

"Whither will this man go, that we shall not find him? will he go to the dispersed Greeks, and teach the Greeks? 36 What words are these which he said, Ye will seek me, and will not find me: and where I shall be, thither ye

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cannot come ?'"

Now on the last day, which is the great day, of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If any man 38 thirst, let him come to me, and drink. He who believ

eth in me, as the scripture hath said, from his belly shall 39 flow rivers of living water." (Now he spake this of the spirit, which those who believe in him were to receive: for the [holy] spirit was not yet given, because Jesus 40 was not yet glorified.) Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "In truth this is a 41 prophet." Others said, "This is the Christ." But others 42 said, "Doth the Christ come out of Galilee? Hath not the scripture said, that the Christ cometh of the offspring of David, and from the town of Bethlehem, where David 43 was?" So there was a division among the multitude be44 cause of him. And some of them desired to apprehend him: but none laid hands on him.

45 Then the officers came to the chief-priests and Pharisees; who said unto them, Why have ye not brought 46 him?" The officers answered, "Never man spake like 47 this [man.]" Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are 48 ye also deceived? Hath any one of the rulers or of the 49 Pharisees believed in him? but this multitude, who

50 know not the law, are accursed." Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of 51 them,) "Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear 52 him, and know what he doeth?" They answered and said unto him, "Art thou also of Galilee? Search and see, that a prophet is not to arise from Galilee."

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VIII.

*[Then every man went to his own house: but Jesus went CH.to the mount of Olives. And carly in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and 3 he sat down and taught them. And the scribes and the Pharisees bring to him a woman taken in adultery: and when 4 they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, “Teach 44 er†, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be 6 stoned: what then sayest thou ?" Now they said this, trying him that they might have whereof to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. 7 But when they continued asking him, he raised himself up, and said unto them, "Let him that is without sin among 8 you, first cast a stone at her." And he again stooped But they, having heard

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9 down, and wrote on the ground.

this, and being convicted by their conscience, went out one

by one, having begun at the elder, to the last and Jesus

10 was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. Now when Jesus raised himself up, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, "Woman, where are those thine accusers? 11 hath no man condemned thee?" And she said, "No man, Sir." And Jesus said unto her, "Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.]"

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Then Jesus spake again unto them, saying, "I am the

*This paragraph concerning the woman taken in adultery is wanting in the Alexandrian (see Woide's Preface), Vatican, Ephrem, and other manuscripts of great authofity, and in the oldest copies of the Syriac version, and is not cited by Origen, Chry- ` sostom, and other ancient ecclesiastical writers. It is found in the Cambridge manuscript, but with some variations from the receivel text. See Griesbach, who keeps it in his text, but with great hesitation.

+ Master, N.

light of the world: he who followeth me, shall by no means walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” 13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, "Thou bearest 14 witness of thyself; thy witness is not true." Jesus an

swered and said unto them, "Though I bear witness of myself, yet my witness is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go*; but ye know not whence I 15 come, and whither I go. Ye judge according to the 16 flesh I judge no one. And yet if I judge, my judge

ment is true because I am not alone, but I and the Fa17 ther who sent me. It is written in your law also, that 18 the witness of two men is true. I hear witness of myself; 19 and the Father who sent me beareth witness of me." They said therefore unto him, "Where is thy Father?" Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also.” 20 Jesus spake these words in the treasury, as he was teaching in the temple: and yet none laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.

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Then Jesus said unto them again, "I shall depart, and ye will seek me, and will die in your sin: whither I de22 part, ye cannot come." Then the Jews said, " Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I depart, ye 23 cannot come."" And he said unto them, Ye are from

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beneath; I am from above † ye are of this world; I am 24 not of this world. I therefore said unto you, that ye will

die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am het,

*q. d. I know from whom my authority is derived, and to whom I am accountable. See ch. iii. 13; xiii. 1, 3.

+ So Wakefield, and the public version. Newcome renders the words "Ye are of those beneath, I am of those above;" and in his note comments upon the clause as expressive of a local residence in heaven antecedent to his existence on earth. But as the first clause is to be understood figuratively, so must the latter. See ver. 44. So ch. xvii. 16, our Lord says of his disciples, "they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world :" not in allusion to any local residence, but to their temper and character, as different from that of the world.

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that I am he.} "The Christ. See Mark xiii. 6; Luke xxi. 8, compared with Matth. xxiv. 5; Acts xiii, 25 But to translate that I am the Christ,' would be to represent our Lord as using to the incredulous Jews explicit, instead of covert, language on the subject of his Messiahship." Newcome.

25 ye will die in your sins." Then they said unto him,

"Who art thou?" [And] Jesus said unto them, "Even 26 what I told you at first. I have many things to say con

cerning you, and to condemn: but he who sent me, is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have 27 heard from him." They understood not that he spake to 28 them of the Father. Then Jesus said unto them, "When

ye have lifted up the Son of man, then ye will know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but speak these 29 things as my Father hath taught me. And he who sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; because I always do those things which please him.” 30 As he spake these words, many believed in him. Then 31 Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him, "If ye 32 continue in my word, then ye are truly my disciples: and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you 33 free." Some answered him, "We are Abraham's offspring, and were never slaves to any man: how sayest 34 thou, Ye shall become free?'" Jesus answered them, "Verily verily I say unto you, Whosoever committeth 35 sin is the slave of sin. And the slave abideth not in the 36 house for ever: but the son abideth for ever. If the Son 37 therefore shall make you free, ye will be free indeed. I

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know that ye are Abraham's offspring: yet ye seek to kill 38 me, because my word hath no place in you. I speak that which I have seen with [my] Father: and ye do 39 that which ye have seen with [your] father." They answered and said unto him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus saith unto them, "If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. But now ye seek to kill me, a man that have spoken to you the truth, which I have heard from God: Abraham did not act 41 thus. Ye do the works of your father." Then they said

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* The word seen in both clauses is used figuratively; q. d. My doctrine is conformable to the instructions which I have received from God: your conduct is such as may be expected from the children of the devil. See Newcome's note. "Which ye have heard from your father," is the reading of some manuscripts of good authority.

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