Ye would love me (ηγαπατε αν εμε). Conclusion of second-class condition with distinct implication that their failure to love Jesus…

If God were your Father. If you had the Spirit of God, or love for Him, or were worthy to be called His children.

You would lov…

If God were your Father, you would love me.—This follows because they would then be in a relationship of spiritual affinity to Him. God’s …

I know that you are Abraham's seed; yet you seek to kill me, because my word does not have free course in you. I speak the things which I have …

St. Augustine of Hippo: The Jews had begun to understand that our Lord was not speaking of sonship according to the flesh, but o…

Jesus gave another evidence of the Jews’ hypocrisy. If they truly loved God, they would evidence that love by showing love to his Son. Love for God…

If God were your Father, you would love me. Christ’s argument is this: “Whoever is a child of God will acknowledge his first-born Son; but…

Jesus said to them, if God were your Father
By adoption; and this was discovered by the grace of regeneration; or in…

Satan prompts people to exce es by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into their minds tends to ruin their souls. He is th…

1. After showing that the Jews had a certain spiritual origin, our Lord here rejects certain origins which they had presumptuously attribute…