John 8:38

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…

I speak ... - Joh 3:11-13. My Father - God. Your father - The devil. See Joh 8:44. To see here means to learn of. They had learned of or been taught by the devil, and imitated him.

I speak that which I have seen - I speak nothing but that unchangeable, eternal truth which I have received from the bosom of God.

Ye do that which ye have seen - Instead of ἑωρακατε, ye have seen, I…

Here Christ and the Jews are still at issue; he sets himself to convince and convert them, while they still set themselves to contradict and oppose him.

I. He here traces the difference between his…

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…