Darby's translation notes (1890)
John 8:44
8:44 of (c-3) of (c-46) Ek . see Note, ch. 3.31. stood (d-29) Perfect tense. what has been and continues.
8:44 of (c-3) of (c-46) Ek . see Note, ch. 3.31. stood (d-29) Perfect tense. what has been and continues.
JOHN 8:44 ouvk e;sthken {C} The form e;sthken (imperfect of sth,kw), supported by î66 a B* C D L W X D Q Y...
Verse 44. _YE ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL_] Ye are the seed of the old serpent. John 8:37. _THE LUSTS OF YOUR FATHER_] Like father like son. What Satan desires, ye desire; because ye are filled wit...
YE ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL - That is, you have the temper, disposition, or spirit of the devil. You are influenced by him, you imitate him, and ought therefore to be called his children. See also...
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...
YE ARE OF YOUR FATHER, THE DEVIL. He shows that there are two households on the earth; that of God, composed of his children; and that of the devil, composed of his children. All who hear the voice o...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
DEVIL. Greek. _diabolos._ Thrice in this Gospel: here, John 6:70; John 13:2. Not the same word as in verses: John 8:48; John 8:49. LUSTS. strong desires of
_Ye are of your father the devil_ At last Christ says plainly, what He has implied in John 8:38_; John 8:41_. -Ye" is emphatic; -ye, who boast that ye have Abraham and God as your Father, ye are moral...
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...
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....
ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ ἘΚ Τ. Π. Τ. Δ. ἘΣΤΈ. At last Christ says plainly, what He has implied in John 8:38; John 8:41. ‘Ye’ is emphatic; ‘ye, who boast that ye have Abraham and God as your Father, ye are morally the d...
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 44. You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a...
_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...
ΔΙΆΒΟΛΟΣ (G1228) хулитель, дьявол (DDD, 463-73; 1369-80). Их отец противопоставлен Отцу Иисуса (Becker; TFG, 303). Об используемом здесь обороте _см._ BD, 140. ΈΠΙΘΥΜΊΑ (G1939) желание; дела, соответс...
YE ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL,— "You inherit the nature of your father, the devil; and therefore you are determined to gratify the lusts which you have derived from him. He was the enemy and murdere...
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 are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, h...
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...
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...
HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING] viz. of the human race, when he sought to destroy our first parents, and ABODE (RV 'stood') NOT IN THE TRUTH, i.e. in that state of innocence in which he was crea...
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 ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL. — “Ye” is emphatic. “Ye who have claimed Abraham and God as your father. _Ye_ are of the father, but that father is the devil.” The possessive pronoun (your) is not ex...
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...
_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
This was the result and evidence of their paternity: ὑμεῖς … [τοῦ πατρὸς is read by all recent editors]. “Ye are of the father who is the devil.” The translation, “of the father of the devil,” _i.e._,...
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...
Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the (l) beginning, and (m) abode not in the (n) truth, because there is no truth in him. When he spea...
You are of your father, the devil, and have made yourselves his slaves. --- He was a murderer from the beginning of the world, having brought both a corporal and a spiritual death by sin, upon all man...
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...
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)...
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_,...
VER. 44. “ _You are born of the father, the devil, and you wish to fulfil the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he is not in the truth, because there is no truth in him...
Why do ye not understand my speech; even because ye cannot hear my word. (44) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode...
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...
44._You are of your father the devil. _What he had twice said more obscurely, he now expresses more fully, that they are _the devil _’_s children _But we must supply the contrast, that they could not...
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 ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL,.... Not of his substance, but by imitation and example; and as being under his authority and influence, his instructions and directions, and ready to follow after him,...
Ye are of _your_ father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie,...
_Ye are of your father the devil_ Ye are the genuine children of Satan; _and the lusts_ Τας επιθυμιας, _the desires; of your father ye will do_ Namely, resolutely and obstinately, as the words, θελετε...
THE LUSTS OF YOUR FATHER; they would comply with his wishes in seeking to murder Christ. A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING; the first work of the devil on earth was to seduce our first parents into sin,...
YE ARE OF YOUR FATHER, THE DEVIL, AND THE LUSTS OF YOUR FATHER YE WILL DO. HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, AND ABODE NOT IN THE TRUTH, BECAUSE THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM. WHEN HE SPEAKETH A LIE, H...
The true ancestry of the Jews:...
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...
Our Saviour now plainly tells them what he meant by their FATHER, mentioned 1 THESSALONIANS 8:38; viz. the devil, whose children though they were not by natural traduction, yet they were by imitation,...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians If any one preaches the one God of the law and the prophets, but denies Christ to be the Son of God, he is a liar, even as also is his father the devil,[48]...
John 8:44 You G5210 are G2075 (G5748) of G1537 father G3962 devil G1228 and G2532 desires G1939 your...
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...
“You are of your father the Devil, and it is your will to do the longings of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and did not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he...
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...
John 8:44. YE ARE OF THE FATHER WHO IS THE DEVIL, AND THE DESIRES OF YOUR FATHER IT IS YOUR WILL TO DO. It seems desirable to preserve in translation the expression ‘the father' (for ‘your' is not fou...
YE ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL (υμεις εκ του πατρος του διαβολου). Certainly they can "understand" (γινωσκετε in John 8:43) this "talk" (λαλιαν) though they will be greatly angered. But they had t...
THE DEVIL diabolos. (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 20:10). _ Satan, (John 13:2); (John 13:27); (Genesis 3:1)....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 THE CHILDREN. By their hate and their desire to kill Jesus (John 7:25), they show they are spiritual children of the Devil. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING HE WAS A MURDERER. He was once "in truth," b...
_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...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 8:44 The devil was A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING. The devil motivated Cain to kill Abel. He is THE FATHER OF LIES, since he contradicted God’s word ...
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 are of your father the devil._ "Not by descent but by imitation," says S. Augustine, quoting Ezek. xvi. 4; and adding, "The Jews, by imitating their impieties, found for themselves parents, not of...
_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...
1 Chronicles 21:1; 1 John 3:12; 1 John 3:8; 1 Kings 22:22; 1 Peter 5:8
Ye [υ μ ε ι ς]. Emphatic, in contrast with hJmeiv, we, of ver. 41. Of your father [ε κ]. Very suggestive, implying community of nature, as in ver. 42. Compare 1 John 3:8; 1 John 3:10. The Devil. See o...
He was a murderer — In inclination, from the beginning — Of his becoming a devil; and abode not in the truth — Commencing murderer and liar at the same time. And certainly he was a killer of men (as t...