Then Shall the Sanctuary Be Cleansed - Donald K. Short

This parable was but the prediction or rehearsal
of the actual experience that was to follow.
However, before the ultimate crime at Calvary,
there was a further drama of reality which should
have opened the eyes of the Jews to the
unconscious enmity hidden in their hearts.
In John 8:33 and onwards, Christ is speaking to
His brethren the Jews. In the dialogue they insist
that they are the seed of Abraham; he was their
father and they were never in bondage to anyonenot
perceiving that Jesus meant that committing sin
equals being a slave to sin. Jesus told them that
they sought to kill Him, and if they were
Abraham's children as well as the children of the
"Father, even God," which they also professed,
then they would love Christ. He went on to tell
them that they were of their father "the devil."
They replied that Jesus was of the devil, but He
answered, "I have not a devil; but I honour my
Father," and He further told them they did not
know the Father, but that He knew the Father. The
end of the passage confirms all that Jesus said for it
points out, "they took up stones to cast at him."
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