** despite fragrantly grave misconceptions throughout centuries, the [[Gospel of John]]'s usage of the term "[[the Jews]]" does ''not'' to ''all'' Jewish people, but rather the coalition of leadership in Jesus's time which opposed Him, in contrast to the Judean populace which loved and followed the Messiah; the audience Jesus directed in John 8:44's was only one particular group of Jews, and was centered on exposing Satan as the originator of lies rather than an ''ad hoc'' attack on Jewish people | ** despite fragrantly grave misconceptions throughout centuries, the [[Gospel of John]]'s usage of the term "[[the Jews]]" does ''not'' to ''all'' Jewish people, but rather the coalition of leadership in Jesus's time which opposed Him, in contrast to the Judean populace which loved and followed the Messiah; the audience Jesus directed in John 8:44's was only one particular group of Jews, and was centered on exposing Satan as the originator of lies rather than an ''ad hoc'' attack on Jewish people |