John 8:25 Commentary and Bible Study

Again it is said for the benefit of the crowd, and we’ve got to read that with contempt; that is how it is meant. ‘Who are you to say that we are going to die in our sins?’ That’s the tone – it is one of derision, and contempt. They have already made up their minds: he is a mere man. But now they are hunting for an explicit statement. He has said before that he is the Son of the living God, but if he says it now, it will immediately result in a charge against him, and another great attempt to arrest and try him six months too soon, not in line with the plan. So he says it obliquely: ‘Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.’ It is almost as if he says to them why do you ask? Have I not been telling you this repeatedly, from the very first time you heard me, two and a half years ago? So why are you asking now? That is the tone of the Lord’s reply.