{"commentaries":[],"citedBy":{"1":[],"2":[],"3":[{"id":"bengel.JHN.8.57.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 8:57","href":"/jhn/8/#v57-bengel","text":"Num. iv. 3","snippet":"As it is, they imply this by their words, Thou hast not yet reached a half century, in other words, the year of superannuation; Num. iv. 3, The term of the Levite service, “From thirty years old and upward, even until fifty years old,” as Lightfoot observes; whence it seems, the expression is not unlike an adage."},{"id":"ryle.JHN.8.57.1","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 8:57","href":"/jhn/8/#v57-ryle","text":"Numbers iv. 3","snippet":"(Numbers iv. 3."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.8.57.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 8:57","href":"/jhn/8/#v57-westcott","text":"Num. iv. 3","snippet":"fifty years old] This age was the crisis of completed manhood (Num. iv. 3)."}],"4":[],"5":[],"6":[],"7":[],"8":[],"9":[],"10":[],"11":[],"12":[],"13":[],"14":[],"15":[],"16":[],"17":[],"18":[],"19":[],"20":[],"21":[],"22":[],"23":[],"24":[],"25":[],"26":[],"27":[],"28":[],"29":[],"30":[],"31":[],"32":[],"33":[],"34":[],"35":[],"36":[],"37":[],"38":[],"39":[],"40":[],"41":[],"42":[],"43":[],"44":[],"45":[],"46":[],"47":[{"id":"henry.JHN.8.57.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 8:57","href":"/jhn/8/#v57-henry","text":"Num. iv. 47","snippet":"Old age is reckoned to begin at fifty (Num. iv. 47), so that they meant no more than this, \"Thou art not to be reckoned an old man; many of us are much thy seniors, and yet pretend not to have seen Abraham."}],"48":[],"49":[]}}