βYe do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even Godβ (John 8:41).
Did you ever notice the magnitude of the insult put forth toward Jesus Christ in todayβs Scripture?
During this time of year, we are mindful of the incarnation of God the Son, Jesus Christ, how He added humanity to His preexisting deity. We know of His virgin birthβor more precisely, His virgin conceptionβand how it resulted in Him being able to shed His sinless blood to pay for our sins.
The Holy Ghost fashioned Jesus Christβs physical body in the virgin Maryβs womb (Matthew 1:20; Luke 1:35), and this lack of a human father resulted in the absence of a sin nature in Jesus Christ. To the unbeliever, the Bible rejecter, such a concept is preposterous. (God and man never βspeak the same languageβ anyway [1 Corinthians 2:14]!) Like today, during Jesusβ earthly life, lost mankind scoffed at the notion of His virgin conception: they reasoned in their own βwiseβ minds, βSurely, a human father was involved.β In todayβs Scripture, we see just a glimpse of this mockery that Jesus Christ experienced throughout His earthly life.
In the context of todayβs Scripture (the previous 40 verses), the Pharisees have been extensively, yet unsuccessfully, attempting to trap Jesus in His words and discredit Him. Jesus declares how they reject His words and want to kill Him (verse 37). When He tells the Pharisees that they βdo that which [they] have seen with [their] fatherβ (verse 38), they arrogantly appeal to their Jewish bloodline, βAbraham is our fatherβ (verse 39), as if being Jewish guarantees them sinless perfection.
Jesus Christ counters their comment with, βIf ye were Abrahamβs children, ye would do the works of Abraham. But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abrahamβ (verse 40). Todayβs Scripture is a continuation of Jesusβ reply, and their rebuttal follows, an insult that makes a mockery of His virgin conceptionβ¦ source
