John 8:42
Jesus said to them, If God were your father ye would have loved me, for I came forth from God and am come [from him]; for neither am I come of myself, but *he* has sent me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
43Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.
Cross References
Malachi 1:6A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, priests, that despise my name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
John 3:17For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.
John 5:43I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another come in his own name, him ye will receive.
John 12:49For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what I should say and what I should speak;
John 15:23He that hates me hates also my Father.
John 17:8for the words which thou hast given me I have given them, and they have received [them], and have known truly that I came out from thee, and have believed that thou sentest 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 →