John 8:44 · KJV
“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. {of his own: or, from his own will or disposition}”
— John 8:44
Why do ye not understand my speech? {even} because ye cannot hear my word.
And because I tell {you} the truth, ye believe me not.
John 8 — Context
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43Why do ye not understand my speech? {even} because ye cannot hear my word.
44Ye 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. {of his own: or, from his own will or disposition}
45And because I tell {you} the truth, ye believe me not.
46Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
Cross References
Acts 13:10
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, {thou} child of the devil, {thou} enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
1 John 3:12
Not as Cain, {who} was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
1 John 3:8-10
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
John 8:38
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
Revelation 20:7-10
And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
John 8:41
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, {even} God.