Expository Thoughts
"Resist the devil, and he shall flee from you." "The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly." (James 4:7; Rom. 16:20.)
Technical Notes:
37. I know that ye are Abraham's seed, but ye seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you. 38. I speak what I have seen with my Father, and ye do what ye have seen with your father. 39. They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
40. But now ye seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I have heard from God. This did not Abraham.
41. Ye do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one father, even
God. 42. Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, ye would love me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither did I come of myself, but he sent me. 43. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 44. 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 speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45. And because I tell you the truth, ye do not believe me. 46. Which of you convinces me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? 47. He who is of God hears God's words;