But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!
Christ's reproof stings because it is true. He challenges them: which of you proves me guilty of sin? None can, though enemies heaped slander on Him. Yet when they rage at His person, He answers with meekness, warm for His Father's honor, cool in His own cause.
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They call Him a Samaritan to say He is irreligious, loose with the law, an excommunicated heretic. Among Jews, such a name was the deepest contempt, for they deemed Samaritans idolaters and corruptors of Scripture.
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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