John Wesley

You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

“These words are, as it were, the text which is commented upon in this and the following chapter. Where I am - Christ's so frequently saying while on earth, where I am, when he spake of his being in heaven, intimates his perpetual presence there…”

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

“On the last, the great day of the feast - On this day there was the greatest concourse of people, and they were then wont to fetch water from the fountain of Siloam, which the priests poured out on the great altar, singing one to…”

Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

“As the Scripture hath said - Not expressly in any one particular place. But here is a general reference to all those scriptures which speak of the effusion of the Spirit by the Messiah, under the similitude of pouring out water.”

“Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”

“They knew Jonah arose out of Gethhepher; and Nahum from another village in Galilee. Yea, and Thisbe, the town of Elijah, the Tishbite, was in Galilee also.”

Then each went to his own home.

“And every man went to his own house - So that short plain question of Nicodemus spoiled all their measures, and broke up the council! A word spoken in season, how good it is!”

In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?”

“Moses hath commanded us to stone such - If they spoke accurately, this must have been a woman, who, having been betrothed to a husband, had been guilty of this crime before the marriage was completed; for such only Moses commanded to be stoned.”

They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with His finger.

“Christ once in the New: perhaps the words which he afterward spoke, when they continued asking him. By this silent action, he, 1, fixed their wandering, hurrying thoughts, in order to awaken their consciences: and, 2, signified that he was not then come to condemn…”

When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.

“Beginning at the eldest - Or the elders. Jesus was left alone -By all those scribes and Pharisees who proposed the question. But many others remained, to whom our Lord directed his discourse presently after.”

But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone; I am with the Father who sent Me.

“And though the Son came from the Father, to assume human nature, and perform his office as the Messiah upon earth, as God is sometimes said to come from heaven, for particular manifestations of himself; yet Christ did not leave the Father, nor the Father…”

“I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”

“I have many things to say and to judge of you - I have much to say concerning your inexcusable unbelief: but he that sent me is true - Whether ye believe or no.”

A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son belongs to it forever.

“And the slave abideth not in the house - All sinners shall be cast out of God's house, as the slave was out of Abraham's: but I, the Son, abide therein forever.”

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

“If I therefore make you free, ye - shall partake of the same privilege: being made free from all guilt and sin, ye shall abide in the house of God forever.”

I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.

“I know that ye are Abraham's offspring - As to the other branch of your objection, I know that, ye are Abraham's offspring, after the flesh; but not in a spiritual sense.”

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.

“Ye cannot - Such is your stubbornness and pride, hear - Receive, obey my word. Not being desirous to do my will, ye cannot understand my doctrine, chap. vii, 17.”

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires.

“He was a murderer - In inclination, from the beginning - Of his becoming a devil; and abode not in the truth - Commencing murderer and liar at the same time.”

I do not seek My own glory. There is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge.

“I seek not my own glory - That is, as I am the Messiah, I consult not my own glory. For my Father consulteth it, and will pass sentence on you accordingly.”

Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”

“If a man keep my word - So will my Father consult my glory. We keep his doctrine by believing, his promises by hoping, his command by obeying. He shall never see death - That is, death eternal.”

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.”

“He saw it - By faith in types, figures, and promises; as particularly in Melchisedec; in the appearance of Jehovah to him in the plains of Mamre, Gen.”

“Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”

“Before Abraham was I AM - Even from everlasting to everlasting. This is a direct answer to the objection of the Jews, and shows how much greater he was than Abraham.”

and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

“Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? - That is, was it for his own sins, or the sins of his parents?”

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.

“Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents - It was not the manner of our Lord to answer any questions that were of no use, but to gratify an idle curiosity. Therefore he determines nothing concerning this.”

While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

“The night is coming - Christ is the light. When the light is withdrawn night comes, when no man can work - No man can do any thing toward working out his salvation after this life is ended. Yet Christ can work always.”

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

“I am the light of the world - I teach men inwardly by my Spirit, and outwardly by my preaching, what is the will of God; and I show them, by my example, how they must do it.”

When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.

“He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay - This might almost have blinded a man that had sight. But what could it do toward curing the blind?”

Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.

“From the fountain of Siloam, which was without the walls of Jerusalem, a little stream flowed into the city, and was received in a kind of basin, near the temple, and called the pool of Siloam.”