Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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Gill's Exposition
He that is of God,.... Who is born, not of blood, by carnal descent from any person, or of the carnal will, or by the power of freewill, or of the will of the best man in the world; but of God,…
Barnes' Notes
Ye are of your father the devil - That is, you have the temper, disposition, or spirit of the devil. You are influenced by him, you imitate him, and ought therefore to be called his children. See also…
Adam Clarke
Ye are of your father the devil - Ye are the seed of the old serpent. See on Joh 8:37 (note).
The lusts of your father - Like father like son. What Satan desires, ye desire; because ye are filled with…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Ye are of your father the devil At last Christ says plainly, what He has implied in Joh 8:8; Joh 8:8. -Ye" is emphatic; -ye, who boast that ye have Abraham and God as your Father, ye are morally the…
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