OrthJBC - John - 8

8:1  But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went to the Har haZeytim (Mount of Olives).

8:2  And at shakhar (dawn), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came again into the Beis Hamikdash and kol haAm (all the people) were coming to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and having sat, he was giving them a shiur.

8:3  And the Sofrim and the Perushim led an isha (woman) having been caught in ni'uf (adultery) and, having stood her in the midst [Bamidbar 5:12f],

8:4  they say to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Rabbi, this isha (woman) has been caught in the act of committing ni'uf (adultery).

8:5  Now in our Torah Moshe Rabbeinu gave us a mitzvoh to stone such nashim. You, therefore, what do you say?" [Vayikra 20:10; Devarim 22:22-24; Iyov 31:11]

8:6  But this they were saying to put a nisayon (test) before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach that they might have something about which to accuse him, but Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having stooped down with his finger, was writing in the ground.

8:7  But as they were remaining, questioning him, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach stood up and said to them, "The one without chet (sin) among you, let him throw a stone at her first." [Devarim 17:7; Yechezkel 16:40]

8:8  And again, having stooped down, he was writing in the ground.

8:9  And the ones having heard were departing, one by one, beginning with the zekenim, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was left alone with the isha (woman) being in the midst.

8:10  And having stood up, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, "Isha, where are they? Does no one condemn you?"

8:11  And she said, "No one, Adoni." And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go and practice chet no more." REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH THE OHR HAOLAM

8:12  Then again Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke to them, saying, "Ani hu HaOhr HaOlam Hazeh. The one following me will never walk in choshech (darkness), but will have the Ohr HaChayyim." [Yeshayah 9:1; 42:8; 49:6, :60:1,3 Mishle 4:18]

8:13  Therefore, the Perushim said to him, "You give solemn edut (testimony) about yourself. But your edut is not ne'emanah."

8:14  In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Even if I give solemn edut about myself, my edut is ne'emanah, because I have da'as of where I came from and where I go, but you have no da'as of where I come from or where I go.

8:15  "You judge according to the basar; I do not judge anyone. [Shmuel Alef 16:7]

8:16  "But even if I judge, my mishpat is emes, because it is not I alone but the one having sent me, HaAv.

8:17  "And it has been written even in your Torah, that the edut (testimony) of two is ne'emanah. [Devarim 17:6; 19:15]

8:18  "Ani hu the one giving solemn edut (testimony) about myself and the One having sent me, HaAv, gives solemn edut about me."

8:19  Therefore, they were saying to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Where is HaAv of you?" In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "You have da'as of neither me nor HaAv of me. If you had had da'as of me, you would have had da'as of HaAv of me."

8:20  These dvarim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke in the Beis HaOtzar while saying shiurim in the Beis Hamikdash, and no one arrested him, because the sha'ah of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had not yet come. WHERE THE REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH IS GOING YOU CANNOT COME BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO EMUNAH AND NO KAPPARAH AND NO HITKHADESHUT

8:21  Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, therefore, again to them, "I go away and you will seek me, and in your chet you will go to your mavet. Where I go you are not able to come." [Devarim 24:16; Yechezkel 3:18]

8:22  Therefore, those of Yehudah were saying, "Does he mean he will commit suicide, because he says "Where I go you are not able to come?""

8:23  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, "You are of what is matta (below); Ani hu of what is ma'lah (above). You are of the Olam Hazeh; I am not of the Olam Hazeh.

8:24  "I said, therefore, to you that you will go to your mavet in your averos (sins), for if you do not have emunah (faith) that Ani Hu [Yeshayah 41:4; Shemot 3:14-16], you will die in your chatta'im."

8:25  They were saying, therefore, to him, "Who are you?" Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Why should I even speak to you at all?

8:26  "I have much to speak regarding you, much about you worthy of haresha'ah (condemnation), but the One having sent me is ne'eman and I--what I heard from Him--these things I speak in the Olam Hazeh."

8:27  They did not have da'as that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking to them about Elohim HaAv.

8:28  Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "When you perform the hagba (lifting up) of the Ben HaAdam, you will have da'as that Ani Hu [Yeshayah 41:4; Shemot 3:14-16], and from myself I do nothing, but as HaAv of me taught me, these things I speak.

8:29  "And the One having sent me is with me [Mishle 8:30]. He did not leave me alone, because I always do the things that please Him." [Yeshayah 50:5; 43:10 Targum Ha-Shivim (Septuagint)]

8:30  As Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying these things, many put their emunah in him. THE EMES BRINGS THE EXODUS OF DEROR (FREEDOM, VAYIKRA 25:10) AND THE YOVEL OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH [VAYIKRA 25:10; YESHAYAH 61:1-3; 53:4-12]

8:31  Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to the Yehudim who had emunah in him, "If you remain in the dvar of me [Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach] then you are my talmidim indeed.

8:32  "And you will have da'as of HaEmes (the Truth) and HaEmes will give you deror." [Vayikra 25:10; Yeshayah 61:1-3; 53:4-12]

8:33  They answered Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "We are of the zera Avraham and to no one have we ever been enslaved. How do you say "You will become bnei Chorim (freedmen)"?" [Nechemyah 9:36]

8:34  In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them "Omein, omein, I say to you that everyone practicing Chet is an eved HaChet. [Bereshis 4:7]

8:35  "But the eved does not remain in the Bais ad Olam. HaBen remains ad Olam. [Bereshis 21:10; Shemot 21:2; Devarim 15:12]

8:36  "If therefore HaBen makes you Bnei Chorim, you shall be Bnei Chorim indeed.

8:37  "I have da'as that you are zera Avraham, but you seek to kill me, because my dvar has no place in you.

8:38  "What I have seen in the presence of HaAv of me, of that, I make solemn declaration. Therefore, the things you have heard from your father you do." THIS SECTION USES MAMZERUT (ILLEGITIMACY) AS A METAPHOR FOR LACK OF HITKHADESHUT (REGENERATION); THOSE FROM MATTA (BELOW) DO NOT HAVE AHAVAH FOR THE CHOCHMAH THAT CAME FORTH FROM HASHEM; SINCE A MAN IMITATES HIS AV, AND SINCE THEY WANT TO LIE AND TO COMMIT MURDER ON A MAN WHO TELLS THEM THE TRUTH, THEY ARE THE ZERA OF THE NACHASH, THAT LIAR AND MURDERER FROM BERESHIS; REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH IS ADDRESSING ALL MEN WITHOUT HITKHADESHUT (REGENERATION), FOR THIS NATURAL TENDENCY TO ACT LIKE OUR FATHER HASATAN IS PART OF THE HUMAN CONDITION, AND IS A TRAGIC FLAW FOUND IN EVERY MEMBER OF THE HUMAN RACE, EXCEPT THE ONE TZADDIK, REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH; THEREFORE, ALL MEN NEED HITKHADESHUT

8:39  They answered and said unto him, "Avinu hu Avraham." Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, "If you were yeladim of Avraham, you would have been doing the ma'asei Avraham.

8:40  "But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who has told you HaEmes, which I heard from Hashem; this was not a ma'aseh Avraham did. [Tehillim 15:2]

8:41  "You are doing the ma'asim of your Av." They said, therefore, to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "We are not mamzerim who have been born of zenunim (fornication). We have Av Echad, Hashem." [Bereshis 38:24; Yeshayah 63:16; 64:8; Malachi 2:10; Devarim 32:6].

8:42  Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "If Hashem were the Av of you, you would have had ahavah for me, for I came forth from Hashem, and now I am present here, for I have not come on my own, but HaAv sent me.

8:43  "Why do you not recognize my lashon? Because you are not able to give obedient shemah (hearing) to my dvar.

8:44  "You are from the Av of you, Hasatan [Bereshis 3:4-5; Tehillim 58:4(3)], and the ta'avot of your Av you want to do, for that one was a rotze'akh from Bereshis and he has not taken a stand in HaEmes, because HaEmes is not in him. When he speaks the sheker, he speaks naturally, because he is a shakkeran (liar) and the Av of it. [Bereshis 3:4; Divrey haYomim Bais 18:21; Tehillim 5:6; 12:2]

8:45  "But because I speak HaEmes, you do not have bittachon (trust) in me.

8:46  "Who among you exposes me concerning chet (sin)? If I speak HaEmes why you do not have emunah (faith) in me?

8:47  The one who is of Hashem hears the divrei Hashem. Therefore, you not hear because you are not of Hashem." WHO IS GUILTY OF CHILLUL HASHEM? BEFORE AVRAHAM WAS I AM

8:48  In reply, those of Yehudah said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Did we not rightly say that you are a Shomroni (Samaritan) and that you have a shed (demon)?"

8:49  In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "I do not have a shed (demon). But I honor HaAv of me and you dishonor me.

8:50  "But I do not seek my own kavod; there is one seeking and judging.

8:51  "Omein, omein, I say to you, regarding the dvar of me, if anyone is shomer, he will not see mavet l'Olam."

8:52  Therefore, those of Yehudah said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Now we have da'as that you have a shed. Avraham died and the Nevi'im; yet you say if anyone keeps the `dvar of me' he will never taste mavet (death) l'Olam. [Zecharyah 1:5]

8:53  "Surely you are not greater than Avraham Avinu, who died? And the Nevi'im died. Whom do you make yourself to be?"

8:54  In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, "If I give myself kavod, the kavod of me is nothing. It is HaAv of me who giving me kavod, whom you say, `He is Eloheinu.' [Yeshayah 63:16]

8:55  "And you have not had da'as of him. But I have had da'as of him. If I would say that I do not have da'as of him, I will be like you, a shakkeran (liar), but I have da'as of him, and I keep his dvar.

8:56  "Avraham your Av had lev same'ach to see the Yom of me [Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach], and he saw it and had simcha." [Bereshis 18:18]

8:57  Therefore those of Yehudah said to him, "You do not yet possess fifty years and yet you have seen Avraham Avinu?"

8:58  Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "Omein, omein, I say to you, before Avraham came into being, Ani hu." [Shemot 3:4; 6:3; Yeshayah 41:4; 43:10,13]

8:59  Then they took up stones that they might throw at him, but Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was hidden and departed out of the Beis Hamikdash. [Shemot 17:4; Vayikra 24:16; Shmuel Alef 30:6]