John 8:41

You do the works of your father. They said to him: We were not born of lewdness; we have one father, God.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

In Context

40But now you seek to kill me, a man that has spoken to you the truth, which I have heard from God; this Abraham did not.

42Jesus said to them: If God were your father, you would love me; for I came forth from God and have come hither; nor, indeed, did I come of myself, but he sent me.

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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 →

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