John 8:41

You do the works of your father.” Therefore, they said to him: “We were not born out of fornication. We have one father: God.”

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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 are seeking to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

42Then Jesus said to them: “If God were your father, certainly you would love me. For I proceeded and came from God. For I did not come from myself, but he sent me.

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Cross References

Exodus 4:22And you shall say to him: ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.

Deuteronomy 32:6How can this be the return you would offer to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is he himself not your Father, who has possessed you, and made you, and created you?

Isaiah 63:16For you are our Father, and Abraham has not known us, and Israel has been ignorant of us. You are our Father, O Lord our Redeemer. Your name is beyond all ages.

Jeremiah 3:19But I said: How shall I place you among the sons, and distribute to you a desirable land, the preeminent inheritance of the host of the Gentiles? And I said: You will call me Father, and you will not cease to walk after me.

Ezekiel 16:20And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore for me, and you immolated them to be devoured. Is your fornication a small matter?

Hosea 1:2The beginning of the Lord’s conversation with Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take to yourself a wife of fornications, and make for yourself sons of fornications, because, by fornicating, the land will fornicate away from the Lord.”

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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