Charles Spurgeon Commentary Genesis 3:11-12

"And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat." — Genesis 3:11-12 (ASV)

Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

There is no sign of true confession here. Adam had been an unfallen creature a few hours before, but, now, he had broken the commandment of the Lord, and you can see how completely death was brought into his moral nature; for if it had not been so, he would have said, "My God, I have sinned, can you and will you forgive me?" But instead of doing so, he laid the blame for his sin upon his wife, which was an utterly mean action: The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. He almost seemed to lay the blame upon God because he had given him the woman to be with him. He was guilty of unkindness to his wife and of blasphemy against his maker, in seeking to escape from confessing the sin which he had committed. It is a bad sign with men when they cannot be brought frankly to acknowledge their wrongdoing.