John 8:41
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
American King James Version (AKJV)
You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.
Webster's Revision
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
World English Bible
You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
English Revised Version (ERV)
Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Definitions for John 8:41
Clarke's John 8:41 Bible Commentary
Ye do the deeds of your father - You have certainly another father than Abraham - one who has instilled his own malignant nature into you; and, as ye seek to murder me for telling you the truth, ye must be the offspring of him who was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, John 8:44.
We be not born of fornication - We are not a mixed, spurious breed - our tribes and families have been kept distinct - we are descended from Abraham by his legal wife Sarah; and we are no idolaters.
We have one Father, even God - In the spiritual sense of father and son, we are not a spurious, that is, an idolatrous race; because we acknowledge none as our spiritual father, and worship none as such, but the true God. See Bishop Pearce.
Barnes's John 8:41 Bible Commentary
The deeds of your father - See John 8:38. Jesus repeats the charge, and yet repeats it as if unwilling to name Satan as their father. He chose that they should infer whom he meant, rather than bring a charge so direct and repelling. When the Saviour delivered an awful or an offensive truth, he always approached the mind so that the truth might make the deepest impression.
We be not born of fornication - The people still professed not to understand him; and since Jesus had denied that they were the children of Abraham, they affected to suppose that he meant they were a mixed, spurious race; that they had no right to the covenant privileges of the Jews; that they were not worshippers of the true God. Hence, they said, We are not thus descended. We have the evidence of our genealogy. We are worshippers of the true God, descended from those who acknowledged him, and we acknowledge no other God and Father than him. To be children of fornication is an expression denoting in the Scriptures idolatry, or the worship of other gods than the true God, Isaiah 1:21; Isaiah 57:3; Hebrews 1:2; Hebrews 2:4. This they denied. They affirmed that they acknowledged no God for their Father but the true God.
Wesley's John 8:41 Bible Commentary
8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father - He is not named yet. But when they presumed to call God their Father, then he is expressly called the devil, John 8:44.
