John 8:38

I speak, &c. The text here is a little uncertain, but the following seems to have most authority; I speak the things which I have seen with(My) Father: ye also, therefore, do the things which ye heard from (your) father. -I speak those truths of which I have had direct knowledge from all eternity with the Father; you, therefore, following My relation to the Father, commit those sins which your father suggested to you." Christ does not say who their father is; but he means that morally they are the children of the devil. The -therefore" (rare in discourses) is severely ironical. The connexion of John 8:38 with John 8:37 is not quite obvious. Perhaps it is this: My words make no progress in you, because they are so different in origin and nature from your acts, especially your attempt to kill Me. It is possible to take the latter half of the verse as an imperative; and do ye therefore the things which ye heard from the Father.