The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, that he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”
They mock Him with brazen scorn, as if to say, 'Go ahead and kill yourself; we have no wish to follow you anyway.' Satan so infatuates the reprobate that they throw themselves into God's wrath with brutal indifference, masked by sardonic laughter that conceals inward wounds they dare not acknowledge.
AI summary
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
Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself?--seeing something more in His words than before (Joh 7:35), but their question more malignant and scornful.