If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
They answered and said unto him,.... On account of his making mention of a father, whose works they did, and whom they imitated: Abraham is our father; meaning their only one, nor had they any other: Jesus saith unto them, if ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham; for who should children imitate but their parents?
Verse 36. If the Son, &c. The Son of God --heir of all things--who is for ever with God, and who has therefore the right and power to liberate men from their thraldom. Shall make you free. Shall deliver you from the bondage and dominion of sin. Free indeed. Truly and really free.
Amid the blazing golden lamps of the treasury at tabernacles, when all Jerusalem danced in joy, Christ proclaims in the most absolute sense: I am the Light of the World. The Baptist was a burning lamp sent to witness to that Light; but He alone is the true Light that lightens every man coming into the world, the Messiah promised of old.
AI summary
Commenting on John 8:12-59