John 8:42
Jesus then said to them, “If God were your father, you were loving Me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of Myself, but He sent Me;
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43why do you not know My speech? Because you are not able to hear My word.
Cross References
Malachi 1:6A son honors a father, and a servant his master. And if I [am] a father, where [is] My glory? And if I [am] a master, where [is] My fear? Said YHWH of Hosts to you, || O priests, despising My Name! And you have said, In what have we despised Your Name?
John 3:17For God did not send His Son into the world that He may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through Him;
John 5:43I have come in the Name of My Father, and you do not receive Me; if another may come in his own name, him you will receive;
John 12:49because I did not speak from Myself, but the Father who sent Me, He gave Me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,
John 15:23He who is hating Me, hates My Father also;
John 17:8because the sayings that You have given to Me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that I came forth 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 →