John 8:42
Jesus 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.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
43Why do you not know what I say? Because you can not understand my words.
Cross References
John 3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world, through him, might be saved.
John 5:43I have come in my Father’s name, and you receive me not; if another should come in his own name, him you would receive.
John 12:49For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 15:23He that hates me, hates my Father also.
John 17:8for the words which thou gavest me I have given them; and they have received them, and they know surely that I came forth from thee, and they believe that thou didst send 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 →