8:42
Jesus, as always, does not back down. If God was truly their father then they would love Jesus, they would be delighted to see Him, and would welcome His words. Why? Because Jesus is the Son of God, He came from the Father, and came according to the Father’s will. So if someone loves the Father they will love the Son, and vice versa. The Father and the Son are inseparable.
8:43
“You cannot bear to hear my word”. This was Jesus’ explanation of why the religious leaders could not, or would not, understand what He was saying. Sin blinds us (2 Cor 4:4). So why would the religious leaders not be able to bear what Jesus said? They thought that they were righteous, and were better than the common people. They thought they had positions of privilege, and deserved to have those positions. The message of Jesus, the gospel, told them that they were not righteous, and they had no right to any positions of privilege.
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