John 8:42
Jesus said to them: If God were your father, ye would love me; for from God I came forth, and am come; neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
43Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye can not hear my word.
Cross References
John 3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John 5:43I have come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
John 12:49Because I spoke not from myself; but the Father who sent me, he has given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 15:23He that hates me hates my Father also.
John 17:8because the words which thou gayest me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew in truth that I came forth from thee, and 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 →