John 8:44
You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
43Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.
45But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me.
Cross References
Genesis 3:3But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.
Genesis 4:8And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.
1 Chronicles 21:1Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.
2 Chronicles 18:21And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.
Job 2:4And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.
John 6:70Then Jesus said, Did I not make a selection of you, the twelve, and one of you is a son of the Evil One?
Matthew Henry on John 8:39-48
Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees. 38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. 39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even… Read the whole commentary →