Jean 8:42

42 Jésus leur dit: Si Dieu était votre Père, vous m'aimeriez, parce que c'est de Dieu que je suis issu, et que je viens; car je ne suis pas venu de moi-même, mais c'est lui qui m'a envoyé.

Jean 8:42 Meaning and Commentary

John 8:42

Jesus said unto them, if God were your Father
By adoption; and this was discovered by the grace of regeneration; or in other words, if they had been born of God,

ye would love me;
for in regeneration love to Christ is always implanted: it is a fruit of the Spirit, which always comes along with the superabounding grace of God in conversion; whoever are begotten again, according to abundant mercy, love an unseen Jesus; and where there is no love to Christ, there can be no regeneration: such persons are not born again; nor is God their Father, at least manifestatively:

for I proceeded forth; and came from God;
the former of these phrases is observed by many learned men to be used by the Septuagint, of a proper natural birth, as in ( Genesis 15:4 ) ( 35:11 ) ; and here designs the eternal generation of Christ, as the Son of God, being the only begotten of the Father, and the Son of the Father in truth and love; and the other is to be understood of his mission from him, as Mediator:

neither came I of myself;
or did not take the office to himself, without being called unto it, and invested with it, by his Father:

but he sent me;
not by force, or against the will of Christ, or by change of place, but by assumption of nature; he sent him at the time agreed upon, in human nature, to obtain eternal redemption for his people: and upon both these accounts Christ is to be loved by all regenerate persons, or who have God for their Father; both on account of his being the Son of God, of the same nature and essence with him, see ( 1 John 5:1 ) ; and on account of his mission into this world, as Mediator, since he was sent, and came to be the Saviour of lost sinners.

Jean 8:42 In-Context

40 Mais maintenant vous cherchez à me faire mourir, moi, un homme qui vous ai dit la vérité que j'ai apprise de Dieu; Abraham n'a point fait cela.

41 Vous faites les ouvres de votre père. Ils lui dirent donc: Nous ne sommes point issus de la fornication; nous avons un seul Père, c'est Dieu.

42 Jésus leur dit: Si Dieu était votre Père, vous m'aimeriez, parce que c'est de Dieu que je suis issu, et que je viens; car je ne suis pas venu de moi-même, mais c'est lui qui m'a envoyé.

43 Pourquoi ne comprenez-vous point mon langage? C'est parce que vous ne pouvez écouter ma parole.

44 Le père dont vous êtes issus, c'est le diable, et vous voulez accomplir les désirs de votre père. Il a été meurtrier dès le commencement, et il n'a point persisté dans la vérité, parce qu'il n'y a pas de vérité en lui. Lorsqu'il dit le mensonge, il parle de son propre fonds; car il est menteur, et le père du mensonge.