40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
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I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. …
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 38-47)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 sentiments and theirs to a different rise and origin (John 8:38): I speak that which I have seen with my Father , and you do what you have seen with your father . Here are two fathers spoken of, accordi…
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