John 8:50 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵⁰And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

John 8:50 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 5:41
I receive not honour from men.
John 8:54
Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
John 7:18
He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
John 5:20-23
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. …
John 12:47-48
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 48-50)

Here is, I. The malice of hell breaking out in the base language which the unbelieving Jews gave to our Lord Jesus. Hitherto they had cavilled at his doctrine, and had made invidious remarks upon it; but, having shown themselves uneasy when he complained (John 8:43, 47) that they would not hear him, now at length they fall to downright railing, John 8:48. They were not the common people, but, as i…

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

(vv. 50)

48-51. Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?--What intense and virulent scorn! (See He 12:3). The “say we not well” refers to Joh 7:20. “A Samaritan” means more than “no Israelite at all”; it means one who pretended, but had no manner of claim to the title--retorting perhaps, this denial of their true descent from Abraham.