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John 8:42
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40 aBut now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth bwhich I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.  
41 You do the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; awe have one Father—God.”  
42 Jesus said to them, a“If God were your Father, you would love Me, for bI proceeded forth and came from God; cnor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.  
43 aWhy do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.  
44 aYou are of your father the devil, and the bdesires of your father you want to cdo. He was a murderer from the beginning, and ddoes not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.  
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John 8:42

If God were your Father - If you had the spirit of God, or love to him, or were worthy to be called his children.

Ye would love me - Jesus was "the brightness of the Father' s glory and the express image of his person," Hebrews 1:3. "Everyone that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him," I John 5:1. From this we see:

1.That all who truly love God, love his Son Jesus Christ.

2.That men that pretend that they love God, and reject his Son, have no evidence that they are the friends of God.

3.That those who reject the Bible cannot be the friends of God. If they loved God, they would love Him who came from him, and who bears his image.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing John 8:42:

Matthew 19:1
John 13:3

 

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