{"commentaries":[],"citedBy":{"1":[{"id":"henry.JHN.3.14.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 3:14","href":"/jhn/3/#v14-henry","text":"Gen. iii. 1","snippet":"The devil is the old serpent, subtle at first (Gen. iii. 1), but ever since fiery, and his temptations fiery darts, his assaults terrifying, his victories destroying."}],"2":[],"3":[],"4":[],"5":[{"id":"chrysostom.JHN.8.42-44.1","author":"John Chrysostom","author_dates":"c. 347-407","tradition":"Patristic (Greek East)","era":"Early church","died":407,"ref":"John 8:42–44","href":"/jhn/8/#v42-chrysostom","text":"Gen. iii. 5","snippet":"For the devil first was the father of a lie, when he said, “In the day that ye eat thereof your eyes shall be opened” ( Gen. iii. 5 ), and he first used it."}],"6":[],"7":[],"8":[],"9":[{"id":"chrysostom.JHN.11.41.1","author":"John Chrysostom","author_dates":"c. 347-407","tradition":"Patristic (Greek East)","era":"Early church","died":407,"ref":"John 11:41","href":"/jhn/11/#v41-chrysostom","text":"Gen. iii. 9","snippet":"( Gen. iii. 9 ), and, “That I may know whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it” ( Gen. xviii. 21 ); and, “Now I know that thou fearest God” ( Gen. xxii. 12 ); and, “If they will hear” ( Ezek. iii. 11 ); and, “If …"},{"id":"ryle.JHN.18.34.2","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 18:34","href":"/jhn/18/#v34-ryle","text":"Gen. iii. 9","snippet":"\" (Gen. iii. 9) in order to arouse Pilate to a sense of the shameful injustice of the charge."}],"10":[],"11":[],"12":[],"13":[],"14":[],"15":[{"id":"henry.JHN.8.44.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 8:44","href":"/jhn/8/#v44-henry","text":"Gen. iii. 15","snippet":"All wicked people are the devil's children, children of Belial (2 Cor. vi. 15), the serpent's seed (Gen. iii. 15), children of the wicked one, Matt. xiii. 38."},{"id":"henry.JHN.12.31.3","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 12:31","href":"/jhn/12/#v31-henry","text":"Gen. iii. 15","snippet":"The bruising of his heel was the breaking of the serpent's head, Gen. iii. 15."},{"id":"bengel.JHN.13.16-18.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 13:16–18","href":"/jhn/13/#v16-bengel","text":"Gen. iii. 15","snippet":"… his brethren. ... the heel) This word is in happy consonance with the washing of the feet; and with the ancient custom of reclining [when of course the foot and heel would be lifted up] for the act of eating bread. ... Gen. iii. 15, “ It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”"},{"id":"bengel.JHN.15.20.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 15:20","href":"/jhn/15/#v20-bengel","text":"Gen. iii. 15","snippet":"… if is not a mere condition, but has the force of affirming [As surely as they ... in this passage is to watch in a hostile manner, as in Matt. xxvii. 36, “Sitting down, they watched Him there” ... at the crucifixion) ; Gen. iii. 15, “ The seed of the woman shall watch with hostile intent thy head, and thou shalt watch His heel ..."}],"16":[{"id":"henry.JHN.16.21.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 16:21","href":"/jhn/16/#v21-henry","text":"Gen. iii. 16","snippet":"The fruit of the curse, in the sorrow and pain of a woman in travail, according to the sentence (Gen. iii. 16), In sorrow shalt thou bring forth."}],"17":[],"18":[],"19":[{"id":"henry.JHN.4.6.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 4:6","href":"/jhn/4/#v6-henry","text":"Gen. iii. 19","snippet":"Toil came in with sin (Gen. iii. 19), and therefore Christ, having made himself a curse for us, submitted to it."}],"20":[],"21":[],"22":[{"id":"westcott.JHN.6.35.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 6:35","href":"/jhn/6/#v35-westcott","text":"iii. 22, 24","snippet":"Compare the tree of life (Gen. ii. 9, iii. 22, 24; Prov. iii. 18, xi. 30, xiii. 12, xv. 4; Rev. ii. 7, xxii. 2, &c.) ; the water of life (Rev. xxi. 6, xxii. 1, &c."}],"23":[],"24":[{"id":"henry.JHN.10.9.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 10:9","href":"/jhn/10/#v9-henry","text":"Gen. iii. 24","snippet":"We must now enter by the door of faith (Acts xiv. 27), since the door of innocency is shut against us, and that pass become unpassable, Gen. iii. 24."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.6.35.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 6:35","href":"/jhn/6/#v35-westcott","text":"iii. 22, 24","snippet":"Compare the tree of life (Gen. ii. 9, iii. 22, 24; Prov. iii. 18, xi. 30, xiii. 12, xv. 4; Rev. ii. 7, xxii. 2, &c.) ; the water of life (Rev. xxi. 6, xxii. 1, &c."}]}}