John 8:42
Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. For from God I proceeded, and came; for I came not of myself, but he sent me:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
43Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.
Cross References
Malachi 1:6The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts.
John 3:17For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him.
John 5:43I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will 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 hateth me, hateth my Father also.
John 17:8Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known in very deed that I came out from thee, and they have believed 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 →