Johannes 8:41

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do: John 8:38, John 8:44

We be: Isaiah 57:3-7, Ezekiel 23:45-47, Hosea 1:2, Hosea 2:2-5, Malachi 2:11

we have: Exodus 4:22, Deuteronomy 14:1, Isaiah 63:16, Isaiah 64:8, Jeremiah 3:19, Jeremiah 31:20, Ezekiel 16:20, Ezekiel 16:21, Malachi 1:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:2 - the sons Deuteronomy 23:2 - General Deuteronomy 32:5 - their spot Deuteronomy 32:6 - thy father Isaiah 48:2 - and stay Hosea 2:4 - children of Malachi 2:10 - hath Malachi 3:2 - who may abide Mark 7:6 - honoureth John 8:54 - ye say John 9:34 - wast Romans 2:17 - makest 2 Thessalonians 2:9 - is

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 whoredom, illegitimately begotten in unlawful copulation, or wedlock; or figuratively, that they were not the children of idolaters, idolatry being called fornication in Scripture; but that they were the holy seed of Israel, and children of the prophets, who had retained the pure word, and the true worship of God, though in all this they might have been contradicted and refuted; to which they add,

we have one Father, [even] God; Israel being called by God his Son, and firstborn to them belonged the adoption, in a national sense, and of this they boasted; though few of them were the children of God by special adoption, or God their Father by regenerating grace.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 charge so direct and repelling. When the Saviour delivered an awful or an offensive truth, he always approached the mind so that the truth might make the deepest impression.

We be not born of fornication - The people still professed not to understand him; and since Jesus had denied that they were the children of Abraham, they affected to suppose that he meant they were a mixed, spurious race; that they had no right to the covenant privileges of the Jews; that they were not worshippers of the true God. Hence, they said, We are not thus descended. We have the evidence of our genealogy. We are worshippers of the true God, descended from those who acknowledged him, and we acknowledge no other God and Father than him. To be children of fornication is an expression denoting in the Scriptures idolatry, or the worship of other gods than the true God, Isaiah 1:21; Isaiah 57:3; Hebrews 1:2; Hebrews 2:4. This they denied. They affirmed that they acknowledged no God for their Father but the true God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 truth, ye must be the offspring of him who was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, John 8:44.

We be not born of fornication — We are not a mixed, spurious breed-our tribes and families have been kept distinct-we are descended from Abraham by his legal wife Sarah; and we are no idolaters.

We have one Father, even God.] In the spiritual sense of father and son, we are not a spurious, that is, an idolatrous race; because we acknowledge none as our spiritual father, and worship none as such, but the true God. See Bishop Pearce.