Ye are of your father the devil (υμεις εκ του πατρος του διαβολου). Certainly they can "understand" (γινωσκετε in 43) this "talk" …

Ye are of your father the devil. That is, you have the temper, disposition, or spirit of the devil. You are influenced by him, you imitate…

Ye are of your father the devil.—“You” is emphatic. “You who have claimed Abraham and God as your father. You ar…

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. John Chrysostom: Our Lord, having already cut off the Jews from their relationship to Abraham, now overthrows this far gre…

The people might have been confused as to why they did not love Jesus if he was indeed sent from the Father. Jesus spoke to that point with a rheto…

You are of your father the devil. What he had twice said more obscurely, he now expresses more fully: that they are the devil’s childr…

You are of your father the devil; Not of his substance, but by imitation and example; and as being under his authority an…

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 spiritual origin and rejecting the origin they presumed for themselves, our Lord here gives their true …