Juan 8:41

41 Las obras de ustedes son como las de su padre.—Nosotros no somos hijos nacidos de prostitución —le reclamaron—. Un solo Padre tenemos, y es Dios mismo.

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 —Nuestro padre es Abraham —replicaron.—Si fueran hijos de Abraham, harían lo mismo que él hizo.

40 Ustedes, en cambio, quieren matarme, ¡a mí, que les he expuesto la verdad que he recibido de parte de Dios! Abraham jamás haría tal cosa.

41 Las obras de ustedes son como las de su padre.—Nosotros no somos hijos nacidos de prostitución —le reclamaron—. Un solo Padre tenemos, y es Dios mismo.

42 —Si Dios fuera su Padre —les contestó Jesús—, ustedes me amarían, porque yo he venido de Dios y aquí me tienen. No he venido por mi propia cuenta, sino que él me envió.

43 ¿Por qué no entienden mi modo de hablar? Porque no pueden aceptar mi palabra.