John 8:42
Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would have loved Me, for I came forth and have come from God; nor have I come from Myself, but He sent Me.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
43Why do you not understand what I say? Because you are unable to hear My word.
Cross References
John 3:17For God did not send His Son into the world so that He might condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
John 5:43I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.
John 12:49For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.
John 15:23He who hates Me hates My Father also.
John 17:8Because I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and they knew truly that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent 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 →