John 8:39
They answered and said to him: Abra ham is our father. Jesus said to them: If you were the children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
38I speak what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have seen with your father.
Cross References
Matthew 3:9and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I say to you that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
John 8:37I know that you are the posterity of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.
Romans 4:12and the father of circumcision to those who are not only circumcised, but who, also, walk in the steps of that faith which our father Abraham had while he was yet uncircumcised.
Romans 9:7Nor, because they are the posterity of Abraham, are they all children: but in Isaac shall your posterity be called.
Galatians 3:29And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s posterity, and heirs according to the promise.
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 →