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He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don`t hear, because you are not of God."
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A Spiritual Litmus Test
Commentators agree that Jesus presents a clear diagnostic test: a person's ability to hear and accept God's words reveals their spiritual origin. As Albert Barnes notes, just as a loving child obeys a parent, one who is 'of God' listens to His commands. The Jews' inability to hear Jesus's message was proof that their ultimate allegiance was not to God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He that is of God. He that loves, fears, and honors God.
Heareth God's words. He listens to, or attends to the doctrines o…
He that is of God (ο ων εκ του θεου). See this use of εκ in 3:31f. "Their not listening proved that they were not of God" (Dods). …
19th Century
Anglican
He that is of God heareth God’s words.—Again He answers the question which He has Himself asked, and gives more fully the…
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Baptist
Why do you not understand my speech? Even because you cannot hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you w…
Jesus closed the argument by repeating that the Jews refused to hear him because they did not belong to God. Their bitterness toward him and their …
16th Century
Protestant
He who is of God. Since He has a full right to take for granted that He is the ambassador of the heavenly Father and faithfully carries ou…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He that is of God Who is born, not of blood, by carnal descent from any person, or of the carnal will, or by the pow…
Satan prompts people to excesses by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into their minds tends to ruin their souls. He is t…
13th Century
Catholic
1. After mentioning some characteristics of the devil, the Lord then shows that the Jews are imitating them. Our Lord ascribed two kinds of …
