He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.
The treasury was the appointed place where offerings gathered. We live and die by God's pleasure, not man's, so we must go forward constantly in our calling, whatever opposition surrounds us.
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God constrained them to suffer Christ teaching openly in the temple, though they sought to kill Him and held tyrannical sway there. Those savage beasts had their throats opened to swallow Him, yet could not touch Him; it is by God's will, not man's, that we live and die.
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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.
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Commenting on John 8:12-59