John 8:38-47 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with your father.… He was a murderer from the beginning (comp. Wisd. 2:23, 24; Romans 5:12). — The Fall was the murder of the human race; and it is in reference to this, of which the fratricide in the first family was a signal result, that the tempter is called a murderer from the beginning (comp. 1 John 3:8-12, where the thought is expanded). The reference to the murderer is suggested here by the fact that the Jews had been seeking to kill our Lord (ver. 40). They are true to the nature which their father had from the beginning. (Archdeacon Watkins.) Parallel Verses KJV: I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. |
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