John 8:44

44. Your father Not Abraham, not God, but the devil. It is clear that the devil is here named as a personal being, as truly as Abraham or God.

Lusts… will do Their sonship consists in the conformity of their lusts and their doings to their father’s.

A murderer As these men are in heart murderers of Jesus, John 7:19; John 8:28; John 8:37; John 8:40.

Murderer from the beginning He murdered the previously pure and perfect Adam, and through him murdered the race. Cain was his son and image, showing by his character what his father Satan was.

Abode not in the truth In which he once stood, but, as his lie to Eve showed, most disastrously fell. So that as the devil is here most clearly named as a personal being, so his FALL, from his previous purity is decisively implied.

No truth in him He is so completely full of lie, that there is no room for truth in him Such are the great mass of wicked men. Satan’s falsehood so completely fills them, that they admit not a particle of the opposite truth of God.

He speaketh of his own Speaketh out from the full fund that is in him.

Father of it The grand original inventor of all lying in the universe. Before he lied, the harmony of truth universally reigned. God and all were truth; Satan created lie.

Others, however, as Alford, render this phrase, Father of him, that is, of the liar. Satan is the liar and the liar’s father. This accords with the current of thought, as Jesus is speaking of moral paternity and sonship.