NOTES for Joh 8:12

Jesus uses an image, which has to provoke immediately to the people listening to Him an association with the predictions on the Messiah, - see for example Isaiah 9:2, 10:1-3. And judging by their ulterior reaction, that‘s what takes place, but still they refuse to believe these predictions are fulfilled here, directly before their eyes. Perhaps, the immodesty of Jesus’ declaration can cause protest to one of us, but instead of protesting per saltum, let us first think to what will come out, if it is really the truth. 

It is written in Psalm 119: "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path". We find a similar phrase in the book of Proverbs (6:23). Why Jesus says that without Him, people walk in darkness? Probably, because the light of the word (the law, the commandment) shines only on the way of the law, and those who do not fulfill the commandments, are out of this light. Jesus is in Himself the fulfillment of the law, that's why there's light everywhere He's. He's the Word in flesh, and thus, - the real light. Whereupon, opens to people the way lightened by the Word - the Christlike way, the way that Jesus passed in front of us, and we only have to follow Him, to walk according to His steps and see everything around ourselves and inside ourselves in a real light.