John 8:41

“Ye do the deeds of your father, etc.] Not Abraham, but the devil. Then said they unto him, we be not born of fornication: meaning either literally, that they were not a brood of bastards, children of whoredom, illegitimately begotten in unlawful copulation, or wedlock; or figuratively, that they were not the children of idolaters, idolatry being called fornication in Scripture; but that they were the holy seed of Israel, and children of the prophets, who had retained the pure word, and the true worship of God, though in all this they might have been contradicted and refuted; to which they add, we have one Father, [even] God; Israel being called by God his Son, and firstborn to them belonged…”

“We be not born of fornication . . . we have one Father, God--meaning, as is generally allowed, that they were not an illegitimate race in point of religion, pretending only to be God's people, but were descended from His own chosen Abraham.”

“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…”

“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, Joh 8:44. John 8:42”

“8:41 your real father: Jesus knew who controlled them. • We aren’t illegitimate children! This was both a defense and an attack. In Greek, the pronoun we is emphatic: “We [in contrast to you] are not illegitimate,” implying that Jesus was illegitimate (see Matt 1:18-25).”

“do: Joh 8:38, Joh 8:44 We be: Isa 57:3-7; Eze 23:45-47; Hos 1:2, Hos 2:2-5; Mal 2:11 we have: Exo 4:22; Deu 14:1; Isa 63:16, Isa 64:8; Jer 3:19, Jer 31:20; Eze 16:20, Eze 16:21; Mal 1:6 John 8:42”