John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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Study Note
Jesus's characterization of the devil as a 'murderer from the beginning' and 'the father of lies' in whom 'there is no truth' provides the Fourth Gospel's most explicit demonology and connects the serpent of Genesis 3 with Satan. The phrase 'murderer from the beginning' (anthrōpoktonos ap' archēs) alludes to the Cain narrative (Genesis 4) and/or to the deception in the Garden that brought death into the world (Genesis 3). 1 John 3:8 and 3:15 develop both associations — the devil sinning from the beginning and the murderous nature of sin — within the same Johannine tradition. The verse functions within a sharp polemic against religious opponents who, Jesus claims, operate within the devil's epistemological framework: a lie can appear as religious truth when its source is the father of lies.
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Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.
You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
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