As long as it lay spread above the Tabernacle, there they stayed. Some suppose our Lord alludes to the custom of lighting lamps or torches, on the first day of the feast of tabernacles. "", Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament. “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men” (John 1:4). Having absolved the woman from her Sill, lest some should doubt, seeing that He was really man, His power to forgive sins, He deigns to give further disclosure of His divine nature; Then spoke Jesus again to them, saying, I am. Shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life - the light as of a new world, the light of a newly awakened spiritual and eternal life. But now Jesus, as the Light of the world, was here and would continue to shine on and within His people, shining ever brighter day by day. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website.Original work done by Ernie Stefanik. He that followeth me shall in nowise walk in darkness — In ignorance, wickedness, misery: but shall have the light of life - He that closely, humbly, steadily follows me, shall have the Divine light continually shining upon him, diffusing over his soul knowledge, holiness, joy, till he is guided by it to life everlasting. He had created light on the first day and lights on the fourth day of Creation ( Genesis 1:3; Genesis 1:14-19). The issue of "I am the light of the world" here, is the "Ye shall die in your sins," in ver. Sinai in fire. Note that as in the case of the living bread and the living water so also here the believer is not a mere passive recipient; he has to eat and to drink to appropriate the heavenly food, and here he has to follow to appropriate the heavenly light. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness.—Strong and full of hope as these words are in the English rendering, the Greek is more emphatic still. BEDE Where it is to be observed, He does not say, I am the light of Angels, or of heaven, but the Light of the world, i.e. But not to dwell on other objections to this view,—e.g. Every evening during the festival a priest would light the three huge torches on the menorah (lampstand) in the women"s court (or treasury) of the temple. Yalcut Rubeni, fol. Every act of mercy He did, spoke to the men who were the subjects of it. It is a beautiful commendation of Christ, when he is called the light of the world; for, since we are all blind by nature, a remedy is offered, by which we may be freed and rescued from darkness and made partakers of the truelight Nor is it only to one person or to another that this benefit is offered, for Christ declares that he is the light of the whole world; for by this universal statement he intended to remove the distinction, not only between Jews and Gentiles, but between the learned and ignorant, between persons of distinction and the common people. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/vnt/john-8.html. of the true eternal Messianic life, not only in its consummation after the Parousia, but already also in its temporal development (comp. Speaking then through the cloud of the flesh, the Light unfailing, the Light of wisdom says to men, I am the Light of the world. His own I know is ample assurance to the world. In the lower, it refers to practical life and its perplexities. God said, Come and see him. "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". BibliographySchaff, Philip. And in effect the Lord's words in Matthew 11:28 seq. & Jarchi in Psal xliii. There are a darkness of ignorance, a darkness of impurity, a darkness of sorrow; and in that threefold gloom, thickening to a darkness of death, are they enwrapt who follow not the Light. Men of righteous intention seek the light (John 3:19ff). 114. 2. This teaching may have taken place on the day after the feast, which was also a day of great celebration. ii., p. 321; W. M. Taylor, Three Hundred Outlines on the New Testament, p. 80; G. Matheson, Moments on the Mount, p. 250; E. Bersier, Sermons, 1st series, p. 136. 165). https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bcc/john-8.html. ], "Now the brilliant candelabra were lit only at the beginning of the Feast of Tabernacles; there is dispute as to the number of nights on which the illumination took place, but none as to the fact that at the close of the feast it did not. It needed no formal proof, for He Himself knows it to be true; it needed no formal proof, for those who heard Him felt His words to be divine—“Never man spake like this Man.” “He taught them as One having authority, and not as the scribes.” (Comp. John 8:12 German Bible Alphabetical: again am but darkness follows have he I in Jesus life light me never not of people said saying spoke the them Then to walk When who Whoever will world NT Gospels: John 8:12 Again therefore Jesus spoke to them saying (Jhn Jo Jn) Christian Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and …