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Lesson Notes:

(John 8:20-22) – The Messiah continues teaching without fear of being apprehended, in the
Temple treasury, the open courtyard within the interior walls of the entry leading into the
temple.
He again makes the illusive statement about His departure and the inability of anyone to come
where He is going. (John 7:34) As they did before, the people ponder over the meaning, even
considering that He is speaking about taking His own life.
The Son of God uses the riddle-like pros to illustrate the enormous separation between Himself
and the religious leaders challenging His truth and identity. They cannot go with Him is used as
a metaphor of the inability for them to hear or see the truth. They will seek Him, meaning the
truth about Him, not to know Him but to persecute Him and therefore they will die in their sins.

(John 8:23) – Plainly He tells them that they are from beneath, the natural world under the
heavens and He is from the world above the heavens, –the supernatural. The first is temporal
and the latter is eternal.
Religion wants Him to conform to the world beneath, but He is not “of this world” and will not
conform to it. He came to bring the world beneath into alignment with the eternal world
above. The temple audience cannot hear the truth because religion has limited them to
modeling their life after the world beneath.

(John 8:24) – Unlike the woman brought to Him with the charges of adultery, that He would not
condemn, telling her to go and move forward away from that moment of missing the path;
these leaders are told that they will die in their present path of sin because they do not believe.

John 8: 25- Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto
them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
John 8:26- I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent
me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
John 8:27- They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.

Lesson Notes:

(John 8:25) – With contempt and anger they reply, “Who art thou”? The temple leaders were
disturbed with the judgment railed against them. How could this Rabbinic make such forecast
upon the those that outranked Him in stature? They were offended that He would publicly put
their reputation in question, failing to recognize how they had done the same to Him.
The Messiah retorts with the same truth He spoke from the beginning. He will not change or
deny His identity because of their public rebuke or unbelief. He cannot change the truth and
the truth about Him cannot be changed.
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