John 8:33 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³³They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou , Ye shall be made free?

John 8:33 —

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Matthew 3:9
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
John 8:39
They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
John 8:37
I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
Genesis 15:13
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Nehemiah 5:4-8
There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 31-37)

We have in these verses, I. A comfortable doctrine laid down concerning the spiritual liberty of Christ’s disciples, intended for the encouragement of those Jews that believed. Christ, knowing that his doctrine began to work upon some of his hearers, and perceiving that virtue had gone out of him, turned his discourse from the proud Pharisees, and addressed himself to those weak believers. When he…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 33)

31-33. Then said Jesus to those Jews who believed, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed, &c.--The impression produced by the last words of our Lord may have become visible by some decisive movement, and here He takes advantage of it to press on them “continuance” in the faith, since then only were they His real disciples (compare Joh 15:3-8), and then should they experimental…