Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 8:41
Ye do the deeds of your father — He is not named yet. But when they presumed to call God their Father, then he is expressly called the devil, John 8:44.
Ye do the deeds of your father — He is not named yet. But when they presumed to call God their Father, then he is expressly called the devil, John 8:44.
Verse 41. _YE DO THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER._] You have certainly another father than Abraham-one who has instilled his own malignant nature into you; and, as ye seek to murder me for telling you the tr...
THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER - See John 8:38. Jesus repeats the charge, and yet repeats it as if unwilling to name Satan as their father. He chose that they should infer whom he meant, rather than bring a...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The Woman Taken in Adultery. (John 8:1 .)_ 2. The Light of the World. (John 8:12 .) 3. His Testimony Concerning Himself and the Father. (John 8:13 .) 4. His Solemn Declarations. ...
CONTROVERSY WITH THE JEWS WHO BELIEVED. Many are convinced by this appeal. The following section summarises the teaching by which Jesus tried to bring the more favourably disposed of the Jewish party...
39-43. ABRAHAM IS OUR FATHER. To Christ's allusion to their father they again assert that they are Abraham's offspring. This might be true according to the flesh, but spiritually they had another fat...
a "I know that you are the descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to find a way to kill me, because there is no room in you for my word. I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father. So...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
DO. are doing. DEEDS. works, as in John 8:39. BE NOT BORN. have not been begotten (see Matthew 1:2)....
_Ye do the deeds of your father_ Better, _Ye_ ARE DOING _the_ WORKS _of your father_. The word here rendered -deeds" is the same as that rendered -works" in John 8:39. -Ye" is emphatic, in contrast to...
John 8:12 TO JOHN 9:41. Christ the Source of Truth and Light In John 8:12-46 the word -true" occurs six times, the word -truth" seven times....
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
ΟΥ̓Κ ἘΓΕΝΝΉΘΗΜΕΝ (BD1) for οὐ γεγεννήμεθα (CD2). 41. ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ Π. Τ. ἘΡ. _Ye_ ARE DOING _the_ WORKS _of your father_: ὑμεῖς in emphatic contrast to Ἀβραάμ. This shews them that He means spiritual not li...
13–59. A comparison of the discourses in Chapter s 5–8 shews how the conflict increases in intensity. In 5 and 6. Christ proceeds almost without interruption, and the Jews demur rather than contradict...
Ver 37. I know that you are Abraham's seed; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you. 38. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with yo...
VER 41. THEN SAID THEY TO HIM, WE BE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION; WE HAVE ONE FATHER, EVEN GOD. 42. JESUS SAID TO THEM, IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER YOU WOULD LOVE ME: FOR I PROCEEDED FORTH AND CAME FROM GOD;...
_JESUS AND ABRAHAM -- JOHN 8:39-59:_ Jesus said these people wanted to kill Him for telling them the truth that God had given Him. The Jews claimed God as their father but they refused to obey Him. If...
ΠΟΡΝΕΊΑΣ (G4202) _gen. sing._ разврат, незаконные сексуальные отношения, ΓΕΓΕΝΝΉΜΕΘΑ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΓΕΝΝΆΩ (G1080) вынашивать; _pass._ рождаться. _Perf._ подчеркивает их длительное существован...
WE BE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION, &C.— The Jews, it seems, perceived at length that Jesus talked not so much of natural, as of spiritual bondage; and replied, "In that respect undoubtedly we are the chil...
SATAN'S CHILDREN _Text 8:41-47_ 41 Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Fat...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 8:33-59 The passage for our present consideration continues and completes the portion studied in our last chapter. It brings before us Christ as the Light reveal...
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. YE DO THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER. THEN SAID THEY TO HIM, WE BE NOT BORN OF FORNICA...
12-29 Nothing would so swiftly and surely prove the undoing of an impostor as the claim that he always pleases God. Of all living, only One has been able to stand such a severe test. In the mouth of a...
8:41 do (b-2) _ poieo_ ; usually 'practise' (see ch. 5.29), but it hardly suits here or in vers. 39,40; still it refers to habitually or characteristically doing, not a mere act....
FORNICATION] i.e. impure or superstitious worship, as often in the OT. The Jews claim to be the true spiritual, as well as the natural, descendants of Abraham. Inheriting his covenant and faith, they...
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES CONTINUED. CHRIST THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD John 7:53 to John 8:11. The woman taken in adultery. All modern critics agree that this section is no original part of the Fourth Gosp...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 8 JESUS FORGIVES A WOMAN 8:1-11 V1 But Jesus walked to the place called the Hill of *Olives. V2 Early next morning, he...
YE DO THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER. — It is better to read _works_ rather than “deeds,” as in John 8:39. They did not the works of Abraham. They did the works of that father, who is now more clearly point...
CHAPTER 19 JESUS REJECTED IN JERUSALEM. “He said therefore again unto them, I go away, and ye shall seek Me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come. The Jews therefore said, Will He...
ὑμεῖς … ὑμῶν. You do not the works of Abraham: you do the works of your father. And yet (John 8:37) He had acknowledged them to be the children of Abraham. The only possible conclusion was that beside...
_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
THE TEST OF SONSHIP John 8:39-47 Godly ancestors and parents will avail nothing, unless we are animated by their spirit and do their works. There were in the old world two families that ran in paral...
The end of chapter 7 is closely linked with this, in that after declaring "every man went to his own house," the writer said, "But Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives." Here we have the story of a re...
We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, God. These Jews perceived that Christ had hinted that they were not the true and faithful sons of Abraham; and therefore they replied in this manner...
SATANIC PATERNITY OF THE UNREGENERATE John 8:37-47. _“I know that ye are the seed of Abraham; but you seek to kill Me, because My Word has no place in you.”_ How sad the condition of those preachers a...
“ _They answered and said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham._ 40. _But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told yo...
4. “I AND YOU”: 8:30-59. Jesus, in His second discourse (John 8:12-20) attributed to Himself two modes of teaching: _testimony_, by which He reveals His origin, His mission, His work, and _judgment_,...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 30-50. 1. Whether the words of Jesus contained in these verses were spoken on the same day as those which precede (Meyer) or on the following day (Godet)...
VV. 41B-43. “ _They said therefore to him: We are not children born in fornication; we have only one father, God._ 42. _Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me; for I came for...
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed: (32) And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (33) They answered...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
41._We were not born of fornication. _They claim no more for themselves than they did formerly, for it was the same thing with them to be Abraham’s children and to be God’s children. But they erred gr...
In chapter 8, as we have said, the word of Jesus is rejected; and, in chapter 9, His works. But there is much more than that. The personal glories of chapter 1 are reproduced and developed in all thes...
YE DO THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER,.... Not Abraham, but the devil. THEN SAID THEY UNTO HIM, WE BE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION: meaning either literally, that they were not a brood of bastards, children of w...
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, _even_ God. Ver. 41. _We have one Father, even God_] Yet God is not in their heads, Psalms 10...
_Ye do the deeds of your father_ By your deeds ye show whose children ye are. _They said, We be not born of fornication_ We are not bastard Jews, a mixed, spurious blood, descended from Gentile idolat...
WE BE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION; perceiving that Jesus uses the word father in a spiritual sense, they reply that they are no spurious race sprung from idolaters, but are the true children of God, since...
The difference between earthly and spiritual parenthood:...
YE DO THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER. THEN SAID THEY TO HIM, WE BE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION; WE HAVE ONE FATHER, EVEN GOD. Whether the Jews would not or could not understand the words of Jesus is not apparen...
A WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY (vs.1-11) While others went to their homes, the Lord spent the night in the mount of Olives, away from all the words and thoughts of men, in the calm of His Father's prese...
41-47 Satan prompts men to excesses by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into the mind tends to ruin men's souls. He is the great promoter of falsehood of every kind. He is...
YE DO THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHER; you imitate him who is indeed your father; by whom our Saviour (as we shall hear more afterwards) meaneth the devil. This they fume at, and tell him they were not BORN...
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity d, and spoke of His divinity alone, which is not of the world: so that in proportion as they had inclined to believe Him to be only man, in that proportio...
John 8:41 You G5210 do G4160 (G5719) deeds G2041 your G5216 father G3962 Then G3767 said G2036 ...
“You do the works of your father.” He repeated His enigmatic statement. ‘You (Judaisers) are doing just what your father does.' They could now hardly fail to realise that there was an unpleasant impl...
THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL (JOHN 8:31). Note how the argument is presented in stages as the case builds up against he Scribes and Pharisees. It had begun with the revelation...
CHAPTER 8 JESUS - THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD AND THE ‘I AM' (JOHN 8:12). In this chapter Jesus is revealed as ‘the Light of the World'. This is a reminder of the one spoken of in the words of Isaiah, ‘the...
John 8:41. YE DO THE WORKS OF YOUR FATHER. Yet the principle of John 8:39 cannot but be true: certainly they are doing the works _of their father._ THEY SAID TO HIM, WE WERE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION;...
The feast of Tabernacles is closed, and with it the great illumination of the temple-courts, of which the Jews were wont to boast in lofty terms. Starting from this, and from the fact that He is the t...
YE DO THE WORKS OF YOUR FATHER (υμεις ποιειτε τα εργα του πατρος υμων). Who is not Abraham and not God as Jesus plainly indicates.WE WERE NOT BORN OF FORNICATION (ημεις εκ πορνειας εγεννηθημεν). F...
John 8:28. _Then said Jesus unto them;_ That is, to the Jews who were questioning and opposing him,- John 8:28. _When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do...
We will read, from the Revised Version, two passages which record attempts made to kill our Lord before his time had come. You will see, from the sermon, why we read them. (See Luke 4:16) John 8:37....
John 8:31. _Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;_ For there were many, in Christ's day, coming to him for a while, and then...
Christ thus spake to his adversaries. John 8:29. _And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone: for I do always those things that please him._ Brethren, what Christ could say, I...
CONTENTS: The woman taken in adultery. Discourse after the feast on Jesus as Light of the world. Satan, the original liar and murderer, and the Satanic brotherhood. CHARACTERS: Jesus, adulterous woma...
John 8:1. _Jesus went to the mount of Olives,_ where it is probable he slept in some booth in the gardens; and returned early to the temple, to preach to the people, before the commencement of public...
YOU ARE ONLY DOING WHAT YOUR FATHER DID. They were _spiritually_ the Devil's children. WE ARE HIS TRUE SONS. They claim to be true sons of the living God. [Some versions translate this: "We _were not...
_Then said Jesus unto those Jews which believed on Him._ A GLORIOUS LIBERATOR I. FREEDOM PROFFERED. 1. Sin makes bondage (John 8:34; Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13;...
_I speak that which I have seen with My Father; and ye do that which ye have seen with your Father_ THE MARKS OF DIVINE AND DIABOLIC RELATIONSHIP Christ had admitted (John 8:37) that the Jews were t...
VER. 37.. _know_, &c. By nature ye are Abraham's children, but in your deeds ye are degenerate. Your descent from Abraham will not therefore profit you. It will increase your damnation, for he will sa...
_Ye do the works of your father._ He persists in saying that they were not Abraham's children, but does not say whose children they were. _Then said they unto Him, We be not born of fornication,_ &c....
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 8:13. They forgot His vindication of Himself (John 5:31). John 8:14. EVEN IF I BEAR RECORD, ETC.—Although He was content to let the Father witness of Him, still...
EXPOSITION Verses 7:53-8:11 (8) _The pericope adulterae. _(A)_ Excursus on the genuineness of _John 7:53-43__John 7:53-43. It is our duty to examine the various grounds on which this passage has been...
Now Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again to the temple (John 8:1-2), Now the feast is over, but Jesus is returning to the temple on the next day. and all of th...
Deuteronomy 14:1; Exodus 4:22; Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 16:21;...
Ye do. Or, are doing. Fornication [π ο ρ ν ε ι α ς]. From pernhmi, to sell....
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD John 8:12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Jesus Christ the Life, was the Light. When we study-John 1:1, we think of Christ in the beginning as the Word, creating by His command all thin...
In the former verses the Jews made their boast that they were the children of Abraham: in these that they are the children of God. WE HAVE ONE FATHER, EVEN GOD. This our Saviour disproves, telling the...