John 8:42
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
43Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
Cross References
Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
John 3:17For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
John 5:43I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.
John 12:49I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
John 15:23Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
John 17:8For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty 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 →