Yochanan 8:1-16 

SYNOPSIS: Joh 8:12  Yeshua spoke to them again: "I am the light of the world; whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light which gives life." What is the difference between the light and darkness biblically? Yeshua speaks about this right after they brought Him a woman who was caught in the act of adultery. The key question is why would the King of the Jews speaking to Jewish people in the temple say these words to them? The next question we will look at is what does it mean for us today, are we like the naked adulterous woman?

SECTION 1: THE LIGHT. This section will focus on the definitions of certain words in the passage of Yochanan. We will see once we understand the more profound definitions of these words and see them in their Hebraic passages. We will get a different understanding of the adulterous woman. You will see what our role is as students of the word and what the great commission really means.

SECTION 2: THE DARKNESS. Now that we have looked at the light and been truly blessed by its Hebraic understanding we will look at the deeper meaning of the darkness. How this darkness ties together with obedience and trust. With obedience and trust you overcome manmade bondage to walk with Yehovah. How this darkness is what separates those who follow and those who go to Sheol.  

 

SECTION 1: THE LIGHT.

Yochanan 8:1-16

 

Joh 8:12  Yeshua spoke to them again: "I am the light of the world; whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light which gives life."

 

Light G5457  φῶς phōs Thayer Definition: light, emitted by a lamp, a heavenly light such as surrounds angels when they appear on earth, a star, fire because it is light and sheds light, a lamp or torch, 2) metaphorically, God is light because light has the extremely delicate, subtle, pure, brilliant quality, of truth and its knowledge, together with the spiritual purity associated with it, that which is exposed to the view of all, openly, publicly, reason, mind, the power of understanding especially moral and spiritual truth

 

Follows G190 ἀκολουθέω akoloutheō Thayer Definition: to follow one who precedes, join him as his attendant, accompany him, to join one as a disciple, become or be his disciple, side with his party 

Darkness G4653  σκοτία skotia Thayer Definition: darkness, the darkness due to want of light, metaphorically used of ignorance of divine things, and its associated wickedness, and the resultant misery in hell 

Life G2222 ζωή zōē Thayer Definition: life, the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate, every living soul, of the absolute fullness of life, both essential and ethical, which belongs to God, and through him both to the hypostatic “logos” and to Messiah in whom the “logos” put on human nature, life real and genuine, a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed, in the portion even in this world of those who put their trust in Yeshua, to last forever.

 

Joh 8:15-16

Joh 8:3 -4

Joh 8:5 

Joh 8:10-11

Joh 8:12

 

Yesha’yahu 42:1-7

Isa 42:6  "I, Adonai, called you righteously, I took hold of you by the hand, I shaped you and made you a covenant for the people, to be a light for the Goyim,

Isa 42:7  so that you can open blind eyes, free the prisoners from confinement, those living in darkness from the dungeon.

 

Light H216 אור  'ôr BDB Definition: light, light of day, light of heavenly luminaries (moon, sun, stars), day-break, dawn, morning light, daylight,  lightning light of lamp, light of life, light of prosperity, light of instruction, light of face (figuratively), Jehovah as Israel’s light

 

Nations H1471  גּי  /  גּוי  gôy BDB Definition: nation, people (noun masculine),  Goyim? = “nations”

 

Darkness - H2822  חשׁך  chôshek From H2821; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness: - dark (-ness), night, obscurity.

 

Isa 42:1  "Here is my servant, whom I support, my chosen one, in whom I take pleasure. I have put my Spirit on him; he will bring justice to the Goyim.

Justice H4941 משׁפּט  mishpâṭ BDB Definition: judgment, justice, ordinance, act of deciding a case, place, court, seat of judgment, process, procedure, litigation (before judges), sentence, decision (of judgment), execution (of judgment), rectitude (attributes of God or man), ordinance, decision (in law), right, privilege, due (legal), proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan

 

Isa 42:3-4

Some translations say faithfully in Hebrew is says truth H571  אמת  'emeth BDB Definition: firmness, faithfulness, truth (noun feminine), sureness, reliability, stability, continuance, testimony and judgment, of divine instruction,  truth as a body of ethical or religious knowledge, true doctrine

 

Torah/Law H8451  תּרה  /  תּורה  tôrâh  BDB Definition: law, direction, instruction,  body of prophetic teaching, body of priestly direction or instruction, body of legal directives, of special law, codes of law, custom, manner

 

Isa 42:6  "I, Adonai, called you righteously, I took hold of you by the hand, I shaped you and made you a covenant for the people, to be a light for the Goyim,

Isa 42:7  so that you can open blind eyes, free the prisoners from confinement, those living in darkness from the dungeon.

Darkness - H2822  חשׁך  chôshek From H2821; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness: - dark (-ness), night, obscurity.

 

Living in Dungeon in the Hebrew has three words in this sentence the first is H1004  בּית  bayith BDB Definition:  house, dwelling habitation, shelter or abode of animals,  human bodies (figuratively), of Sheol

 

Second word is sitting in H3427  ישׁב  yâshab yaw-shab' BDB Definition: to dwell, remain, sit, abide, to remain, stay, have one’s abode, to be inhabited, to marry (give an dwelling to)

 

Third word prison H3608  כּלא  kele' BDB Definition: imprisonment, confinement, restraint

 

Dwelling in darkness; misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness: obscurity. Your married and dwelling in Sheol and your restrained there and here is the key Yeshua

 

Yesha’yahu 51:1-5

Isa 51:4  "Pay attention to me, my people! My nation, listen to me! For Torah will go out from me; I will calm them with my justice as a light for the peoples.

 

Justice/calm H4941  משׁפּט  mishpâṭ  BDB Definition: judgment, justice, ordinance, act of deciding a case, place, court, seat of judgment, process, procedure, litigation (before judges), sentence, decision (of judgment), execution (of judgment), decision (in law), right, privilege, due (legal), proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan

 

Isa 51:5  My righteousness is at hand, my salvation goes out, my arms will judge the peoples. The coastlands are putting their hope in me, trusting in my arm.

 

Salvation H3468  ישׁע  /  ישׁע  yesha‛  /  yêsha‛ BDB Definition: deliverance, salvation, rescue, safety, welfare, prosperity, victory

 

Arm H2220  זרוע  /  זרעה  /  זרועה  /  זרע  zerôa‛  /  zerô‛âh  BDB Definition: arm, forearm, shoulder, strength, 1b) arm (as symbol of strength), 1c) forces (political and military), 1d) shoulder (of animal sacrificed)

 

Yochanan 53:1-12

Isa 53:1  Who believes our report? To whom is the arm of Adonai revealed?

Isa 53:5 

 

Yochanan 12:44-48

Joh 12:46  I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who trusts in me might not remain in the dark.

 

Mattiyahu 28:18-20

Mat 28:19  Therefore, go and make people from all nations into talmidim, immersing them into the reality of the Father, the Son and the Ruach HaKodesh,

Mat 28:20 

  

Acts 13:38-49

Act 13:43  When the synagogue meeting broke up, many of the born Jews and devout proselytes followed Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba, who spoke with them and urged them to keep holding fast to the love and kindness of God.

 

proselytes  G4339  προσήλυτος prosēlutos Thayer Definition: a newcomer,  a stranger, alien, one who has come over from a Gentile religion to Judaism

Act 13:47-48

 

SECTION 2: DARKNESS

Joh 8:12  Yeshua spoke to them again: "I am the light of the world; whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light which gives life."

 

Vayikra 23:1-5

Lev 23:5  " 'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between sundown and complete darkness, comes Pesach for Adonai.

 

Yesha’yahu 5:20-24

Isa 5:20  Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who change darkness into light and light into darkness, who change bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter!

Isa 5:24

Tehillim 18:21-28

Psa 18:28"For you, Adonai, light my lamp; Adonai, my God, lights up my darkness.

Psa 18:24

 

Y’hoshua 24:1-15

Jos 24:7  But when they cried out to Adonai, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, overwhelmed them with the sea and drowned them. Your eyes saw what I did in Egypt, and then you lived in the desert for a long time.

 

Jos 24:15 

 

Joh 8:12  Yeshua spoke to them again: "I am the light of the world; whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light which gives life."

 

Amein & Amein!!!