john-8:42-47,-acts-4:10-12-niv

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil - Ye are the seed of the old serpent. See on John 8:37 ; (note). The lusts of your father - Like father like son. What Satan desires, ye desire; because ye are filled with his nature. Awful state of unregenerate men! They have the nearest alliance to Satan; they partake of his nature and have in them the same principles and propensities which characterize the very nature and essence of the devil! Reader, canst thou rest in this state? Apply to God,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:46

Which of you convinceth me of sin? - Do you pretend to reject the truths which I announce, because my life does not correspond to the doctrines I have taught? But can any of you prove me guilty of any fault? You have maliciously watched all my steps; have you seen the smallest matter to reprove, in any part of my conduct? But it is probable that ἁμαρτια , sin, is put here in opposition to αληθεια , truth, in the same verse, and then it should be rendered falsehood. The very best Greek... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:47

He that is of God - Meaning probably himself: he who came from God, or was born of God - heareth the words of God - has the constant inspiration of his Spirit, speaks nothing but truth, and cannot possibly err. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:42

Verse 42 42.If God were your Father, you would love me. Christ’s argument is this: “Whoever is a child of God will acknowledge his first-born Son; but you hate me, and therefore you have no reason to boast, that you are God’s children.” We ought carefully to observe this passage, that there is no piety and no fear of God where Christ is rejected. Hypocritical religion, indeed, presumptuously shelters itself under the name of God; but how can they agree with the Father who disagree with his only... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:43

Verse 43 43.Why do you not understand my language? In this passage, he reproaches the Jews with their obstinacy, which was so great, that they could not even endure to hear him speak Hence he infers, that they are actuated and hurried away by diabolical rage. Some make a distinction here between language and speech, as if speech had a more extensive meaning; but I do not see it; (239) and besides, it would not be appropriate that the word which means less should be placed first. Many point this... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:44

Verse 44 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 cherish such intense hatred to the Son of God, were it not that they had for their father the perpetual enemy of God. He calls them children of the devil, not only because they imitate him, but because they are led by his instigation to fight against Christ. For as we are called the children of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:45

Verse 45 45.But because I speak the truth. He confirms the preceding statement; for, since they have no other reason for opposing, but because truth is hateful and intolerable to them, they show plainly that they are the children of Satan. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:46

Verse 46 46.Which of you? This question proceeds from perfect confidence; for, knowing that they could not justly bring any reproach against him, he glories over his enemies, as having obtained a victory. And yet he does not say that he is free from their slanders; for, though they had no reason for reproaching, still they did not cease to pour out slanders on Christ; but he means that no crime dwells in him. And such is the import of the Greek word ἐλέγχειν, as the Latins use coarguere, (to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:47

Verse 47 47.He who is of God. As he has a full right to take this for granted, that he is the ambassador of the heavenly Father, and that he discharges faithfully the office which has been committed to him, he kindles into greater indignation against them; for their impiety was no longer concealed, since they were so obstinate in rejecting the word of God. He had showed that they could not bring forward any thing which he had not taught as from the mouth of God. He concludes, therefore, that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 8:31-59

describe a further conversation, not with the same audience. The words record a vivid conflict between the Lord and the Jews who believed him, who accepted the Messianic claims, but persisted in interpreting them, not by his word, but by their own ideas of the theocratic kingdom, by their privileges as children of Abraham, by their national animosity to their nearest neighbours the Samaritans, by their inability to press behind the veil of his humanity to his Divine nature. Their faith was... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:44

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:46

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:47

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:42

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:43

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:44

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:45

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:46

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:47

The Pulpit Commentary - John 8:31-59

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