John 8:41 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. ”

• John 8:41 - Albert 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...

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• John 8:41 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 par...

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• John 8:41 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  do . are doing. deeds . works, as in John 8:39 . be not born . have not been begotten (see Matthew 1:2 ).

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• John 8:41 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• John 8:41 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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 - You have certainly another father than Abraham -...

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• John 8:41 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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 t...

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• John 8:41 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 fo...

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• John 8:41 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 Fou...

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• John 8:41 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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...

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• John 8:41 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• John 8:41 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• John 8:41 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 r...

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• John 8:41 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 answere...

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• John 8:41 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...

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• John 8:41 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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, Psalm...

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• John 8:41 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 idola...

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• John 8:41 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 pr...

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• John 8:41 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees.       38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with you...

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• John 8:41 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 b...

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• John 8:41 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Chapter 8 Jesus - The Light of the World and the ‘I am' ( John 8:12-59 ). 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 Isa...

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• John 8:41 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 8:13 . They forgot His vindication of Himself ( John 5:31-37 ). John 8:14 . Even if I bear record, etc. —Although He was content to let the Father witness o...

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• John 8:41 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 tha...

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• John 8:41 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 publ...

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• John 8:41 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 ; Romans 6:16-17 ; Galatian...

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• John 8:41 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Verses 7:53-8:11 (8) The pericope adulterae. (a) Excursus on the genuineness of John 7:53-43 John 7:53-43 John 7:53-43 . It is our duty to examine the various grounds on...

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• John 8:41 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The difference between earthly and spiritual parenthood:

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• John 8:41 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 14:1 ; Exodus 4:22 ; Ezekiel 16:20 ; Ezekiel 16:21 ; Ezekiel 23:45-47 ; Hosea 1:2 ; Hosea 2:2-5 ; Isaiah 57:3-7 ; Isaiah 63:16 ; Isaiah 64:8 ; Jeremiah 3:19 ; Jeremiah 31:20 ;...

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• John 8:41 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Light of the World John 8:12-42 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Jesus Christ the Life, was the Light. When we study- John 1:1-4 , we think of Christ in the beginning as the Word, creating by His com...

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• John 8:41 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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 .

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