Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father that glorifieth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God;
In these verses we have, I. The doctrine of the immortality of believers laid down, Joh 8:51. It is ushered in with the usual solemn preface, Verily, verily, I say unto you, which commands both attention and assent, and this is what he says, If a man keep my sayings, he shall never see death. Here we have, 1.
Commenting on John 8:51-59
Verse 54. If I honour myself. If I commend or praise myself. If I had no other honour and sought no other honour than that which proceeds from a desire to glorify myself. My honour is nothing. My commendation or praise of myself would be of no value. . (y) "If I honour" (z) "it is my Father" .
Then said the Jews unto him, thou art not yet fifty years old,.... One copy reads forty, but he was not that; no, not much more than thirty; not above two or three and thirty years old: the reason of their fixing on this age of fifty might be, because Christ might look like such an one, being a man of sorrows and acquainted with...