Paula

First, a look at context from an interlinear, and it shows me a chiasm:

A. You cannot hear my word
X. You are like your father, Satan, the liar
A’. You do not believe me because I speak truth.

The literal rendering of 8:44 in Greek:

you out of the father the slanderer are, and the desires of the father of you you are willing to do; that one murderer was from beginning, and in the truth not stands, that not is truth in him; whenever he may speak the lie out of the own he speaks, that liar he is and the father of it

[the word “nature” isn’t there; just had to tease you about that, Cheryl! ]

While we have to extrapolate what “truth is not in him” entails, we should also contrast it with Jesus being Truth itself.

And another question is: Does God really “know evil”? If Jesus is Truth, can he “know” lies? In other words, did the serpent really say a truth when he said “like God, knowing good and evil“?

Certainly God is omniscient, but in what sense did the serpent mean “to know”? Knowledge about, or an experience within?