John 8

First a verse I want to share with everyone :
7 "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

I mean didnt we started like this? everyone picks a verse in this chapter. And it is not neccesary to exlpain or write a long reflection about it? It was mainly about reading the bible AND let others reading it too. This particular verse just seems handy for the everyday life. Something to add into our attitude .


I am happy that I could use this quite time in the evening to read John and to write something.
In this chapter Jesus is again talking to the people. I think that we can not see the recordings in John in a strict order concerning time and place. It is maybe a collection and compression of the teachings of Jesus. In the other gospesl we often see the sentence that Jesus sat down to teach the people. But the actual content is often not noted down.

For this chapter I like to draw out all the features mentioned by Jesus about himself (hm maybe this sentences is not quite right...)

12 "I am the light of the world
14"Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going.
(here I do not understand how this statement maches with the one in John 5:31 "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid. maybe it is importatn to take a good look into the context. Though I looked for the context but I was not very clear to me)
15 I pass judgment on no one
16But if I do judge, my decisions are right
16I am not alone. I stand with the Father
23 I am from above. I am not of this world
29 The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
45 I tell the truth
46 I am telling the truth
58 before Abraham was born, I am

I hope that I got most of the descrptions which are mentioned in this chapter. Maybe you already noticed that I missed a big group out. It is about the relation between him and the father to which he very often refers to. It is that he is not doing, telling or acting on his own but be does the will of the father and speaks what he has intrusted him. He often repeats himself and explain this relationship from different aspects.

A little detail which is a bit unexlpainable:
²⁰He spoke these words while teaching in the temple area near the place where the offerings were put.
It was the word "Gotteskasten" it is one word which is rephrased in enlgish with "the place where the offerings were put". I mean mentioning this detail here makes one asking "why????" hehe. I do not know it. But it does remind me about the grass int the chapter before. Maybe there is also a link for it here. It really makes me ask "what is this thing doing in this abstract text??" So maybe one of you have an answer for it.