Juan 8:41

41 Vosotros hacéis las obras de vuestro padre. Ellos le dijeron: Nosotros no nacimos de fornicación; tenemos un Padre, es decir, Dios.

Juan 8:41 Meaning and Commentary

John 8:41

Ye do the deeds of your father
Not Abraham, but the devil.

Then said they unto him, we be not born of fornication:
meaning either literally, that they were not a brood of bastards, children of whoredom, illegitimately begotten in unlawful copulation, or wedlock; or figuratively, that they were not the children of idolaters, idolatry being called fornication in Scripture; but that they were the holy seed of Israel, and children of the prophets, who had retained the pure word, and the true worship of God, though in all this they might have been contradicted and refuted; to which they add,

we have one Father, [even] God;
Israel being called by God his Son, and firstborn to them belonged the adoption, in a national sense, and of this they boasted; though few of them were the children of God by special adoption, or God their Father by regenerating grace.

Juan 8:41 In-Context

39 Ellos le contestaron, y le dijeron: Abraham es nuestro padre. Jesús les dijo<***>: Si sois hijos de Abraham, haced las obras de Abraham.

40 Pero ahora procuráis matarme, a mí que os he dicho la verdad que oí de Dios. Esto no lo hizo Abraham.

41 Vosotros hacéis las obras de vuestro padre. Ellos le dijeron: Nosotros no nacimos de fornicación; tenemos un Padre, es decir, Dios.

42 Jesús les dijo: Si Dios fuera vuestro Padre, me amaríais, porque yo salí de Dios y vine de El, pues no he venido por mi propia iniciativa, sino que El me envió.

43 ¿Por qué no entendéis lo que digo? Porque no podéis oír mi palabra.