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Selected Verse: John 8:53 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Joh 8:53 |
King James |
Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Whom makest thou thyself? - Or, who dost thou pretend to be? Although the greatest of the prophets have died, yet thou a Nazarene, a Samaritan, and a devil pretendest that thou canst keep thy followers from dying! It would have been scarcely possible to ask a question implying more contempt and scorn. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Art thou (μὴ σὺ)
Thou, emphatic, and the negative interrogative particle implying a negative answer, thou art not surely greater.
Which is dead (ὅστις)
The compound pronoun ὅστις, which, is used explicatively, according to a familiar New Testament usage, instead of the simple relative. The sense is, seeing that he is dead. The compound relative properly indicates the class or kind to which an object belongs. Art thou greater than Abraham, who is himself one of the dead? So Col 3:5. "Mortify covetousness, seeing it is (ἥτις ἐστὶν) idolatry." See on Mat 13:52; see on Mat 21:41; see on Mar 12:18; see on Luk 12:1; see on Act 7:53; see on Act 10:41; see on Pe1 2:11. |
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: