John 8:42
Therefore Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, ye would love me, for I came forth and have come from God. For, neither have I come for myself, but he sent me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
43Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.
Cross References
Malachi 1:6A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And ye say, How have we despised thy na
John 3:17For God sent the Son into the world not that he might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
John 5:43I have come in my Father's name, and ye do not accept me. If another man should come in his own name, ye will accept that man.
John 12:49Because I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 15:23He who hates me hates my Father also.
John 17:8Because the sayings that thou gave to me, I gave to them. And they received them, and knew truly that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou sent me.
Matthew Henry on John 8:39-48
Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees. 38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. 39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even… Read the whole commentary →