2006-08-25 23:12:28 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Jews. They refuse, to this day, to accept Jesus as Massiah and Savior. God have mercy on their souls.
2006-08-27 12:36:23 · answer #1 · answered by STONE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joh 8:42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn't come on My own, but He sent Me.
Joh 8:43 Why don't you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to My word.
Joh 8:44 You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.
Joh 8:45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.
Joh 8:46 Who among you can convict Me of sin? If I tell the truth, why don't you believe Me?
Joh 8:47 The one who is from God listens to God's words. This is why you don't listen, because you are not from God."
Jesus is dividing those who truly seek after God from those who are just playing "religion".
He is further clarifying that if the religious folks truly understood the scriptures they had, they would know clearly who He is, the Messiah.
Jesus is letting us know as well, that there are two groups in this world, those who truly follow Him and those who do not.
Pick a side.
2006-08-26 07:17:21 · answer #2 · answered by steve 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when He says you are children of the devil he is speaking to the Cainanites - who were the children of Cain, the first murderer.
Also, there were two types of priests in the Temple at Jesus' time - pharisees and saduccees. The pharisees believed in the afterlife - the sadducces did not and taught there was no afterlife. The sadducces were not the original priests - but were Babylonian priests who joined the the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levites when they were freed from captivity in Babylon and allowed to return to Jerusalem. The sadducces came to Jerusalem with them and infected YHVH's Temple - dividing it.
2006-08-26 06:43:18 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pharisees, verse 13.
2006-08-26 06:20:10 · answer #4 · answered by cowgirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it was Paris Hilton.But whos Jesus?? and whats he doing in the John at 8:42-47??
2006-08-26 06:21:22 · answer #5 · answered by Jamie D 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Jesus is talking to the Jews, the people that knew the old testament. They worshiped God with their lips, but their heart was far from Him. Jesus was saying if they truly loved and worshiped God they would know He is the Son of God.
2006-08-26 06:26:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
aaah if you just read one more verse ... you just miss one verse to know whom Jesus is talking to .. read john 8:48
John 8:48 (King James Version)
48Then answered THE JEWS, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
keep on reading brother .. read the whole chapter :)
2006-08-26 07:05:39 · answer #7 · answered by zac821 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unbeliever.
2006-08-26 09:45:27 · answer #8 · answered by The Redeemed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Jews.
2006-08-26 06:38:06 · answer #9 · answered by disneydeb 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sasquatch
2006-08-26 06:15:38 · answer #10 · answered by Mrs. Pears 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋