John 8:42

And because I tell you the truth,.... And no lie, the whole truth of the Gospel, and particularly the truth of his divine sonship:

ye believe me not; to such an infatuation and judicial blindness…

If God were your Father - If you had the spirit of God, or love to him, or were worthy to be called his children. Ye would love me - Jesus was “the brightness of the Father’s glory and the express…

If God were your Father, ye would love me - I came from God, and it would be absurd to suppose that you would persecute me if you were under the influence of God. The children of the same father…

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…

Moral proof that God is not their father; if they were God's children they would love His Son. Comp. Joh 15:23, and -every one that loveth Him that begat loveth Him also that is begotten of Him" (1Jn…