Robertson Word Pictures - John 8:40 - 8:40

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Robertson Word Pictures - John 8:40 - 8:40


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But now (nun de). Clear statement that they are not doing “the works of Abraham” in seeking to kill him. See this use of nun de after a condition of second class without an in Joh 16:22, Joh 16:24.

This did not Abraham (touto Abraam ouk epoiēsen). Blunt and pointed of their unlikeness to Abraham.

A man that hath told you the truth (anthrōpon hos ten alētheian humin lelalēka). Anthrōpon (here = person, one) is accusative case in apposition with me (me) just before. The perfect active indicative lelalēka from laleō is in the first person singular because the relative hos has the person of me, an idiom not retained in the English that hath (that have or who have) though it is retained in the English of 1Co 15:9 “that am” for hos eimi.

Which I heard from God (hēn ēkousa para tou theou). Here we have “I” in the English. “God” here is equal to “My Father” in Joh 8:38. The only crime of Jesus is telling the truth directly from God.