John 8:43 Commentary and Bible Study

Without Christ, nothing makes sense. You cannot order or organise any knowledge of human history or the human race. You certainly cannot understand the Bible, the word of God, without Christ, who is the central organising theme of the whole of the word of God from cover to cover. He is there, and he is the object and the purpose of it all. It becomes a meaningless library of books instead of one coherent divine work.They had no spiritual taste, no spiritual sight. The clergy of that time in Jerusalem did not understand Christ. They had not seen him in the promises to Abraham, let alone in the types and the shadows and all the utterances of the prophets. They believed that they were children of Abraham, but what were the promises that God made to Abraham? What did he say to them about the Messiah, about Abraham’s great and notable seed who would one day come? Those promises they did not read or understand, so when Christ came, his words, his acts, his ministry made no sense to them.