Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                  Chapter Eight

                                                                                                                                              Verses 25-26

These Jews became perplexed because to their way of thinking Jesus had made outlandish claims about being sent from God and coming from Heaven. So they asked Jesus again who He was. Jesus answered that He had already told them many times who He was, and He had proven who He was by the miracles which He had done.

Jesus then told them that He had many more sermons to preach to them, and He had many more judgments to make about them. Jesus did not tell them that He would judge them as persons because He had said before that He would make no such judgments while He was in the world. John 8:15. Jesus specifically taught that He would make no judgments of humans while He was in the world in His physical from. John 12:47. Jesus made judgments about humans, but He made no judgments of humans. Jesus makes only two kinds of judgments of the beings of humans. He judges the souls and spirits of all humans not saved by grace immediately after their physical deaths to determine which region of death to which He will send them, and He makes His final judgment in the end of the world. Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12. Jesus does continuously judge about humans. Jesus preached against human sin and evil, and He warned humans that if they failed to believe in Him as their Savior, then they would die in their sins, but He made no judgments about the fate of the beings of any human while He was in the world. John 12:47-48.

Jesus then taught that He came to preach His Father's gospel, not just to the Jews as their Messiah, but He came to preach the truth of His gospel to the whole world, meaning all mankind, The Jews believed that their Messiah would come just for them, to liberate them from Roman dominance. They must have been shocked and further perplexed when they heard Jesus proclaim that He came to preach a true gospel that He had received from His Father to all mankind, including their enemies. The Jews thought of themselves as being a very special people because they believed in the one true God, and that in the end, God would save only them, and God would condemn all the worthless Gentiles who worshiped idols.