John 8:42
Jesus replied, “If God really was your father, you would love me. I came from God and now I am here. The decision to come wasn't mine, but the one who sent me.
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43Why can't you understand what I'm saying? It's because you refuse to hear my message!
Cross References
Malachi 1:6A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. So if I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? says the Lord Almighty to you priests who show contempt for me. But you ask, “How have we shown contempt for you?”
John 3:17God didn't send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 5:43For I've come to represent my Father, and you won't accept me; but if someone comes representing themselves, then you accept them!
John 12:49For I'm not speaking for myself but for my Father who sent me. He is the one who instructed me what to say and how to say it.
John 15:23Anyone who hates me hates my Father as well.
John 17:8I have given them the message that you gave me. They accepted it, completely convinced that I came from you, and they 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 →