John 8:40
But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not.
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Psalms 37:12My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:
John 8:26Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world.
John 8:56Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it and was glad.
Galatians 4:16Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
1 John 3:12Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just.
Revelation 12:12Therefore, rejoice, O heavens, and you that dwell therein. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time.
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 →