Joh 8:24.[222] Ἀποθανεῖσθε, ye shall die) The Jews had neglected the weightier words of Joh 8:21, “Ye shall seek Me, and shall die in your sins:” all the rest they had taken up at Joh 8:22 [viz. that part of His words, “Whither I go, ye cannot come”]: therefore now those weightier and more severe words are repeated.
[222] ἐὰν γὰρ μὴ πιστεύσητε, for unless ye shall believe) They who believe attach themselves to Christ, and through Him alone they attain to that, to which they could not attain otherwise.-V. g.