John 8:42

He said to them, If Hashem were the Av of you, you would have had ahavah for me, for I came forth from Hashem, and now I am present here, for I have not come on my own, but HaAv sent me. + 8:42 Isa 55:11

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

In Context

41You are doing the ma'asim of your Av. They said, therefore, to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, We are not mamzerim who have been born of zenunim (fornication). We have Av Echad, Hashem. + 8:41 Gn 38:24; Isa 63:16; 64:8; Mal 2:10; Dt 32:6

43Why do you not understand my devarim? Because you are not able to give obedient shemah (hearing) to my dvar.

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Cross References

Malachi 1:6A ben honoreth his av, 1 and an eved his adon; 1 if then I be an Av, 1 where is Mine honor? 1 And if I be Adonim, 1 where is My reverence? 1 saith Hashem Tzva'os unto you, O kohanim, 1 that despise My Name. 1 But ye say: Wherein have we despised Thy name? 1

John 3:17For Hashem did not send the Ben HaElohim into the Olam Hazeh that he might judge the Olam Hazeh, but that the Olam Hazeh might be brought to the Geulah (Redemption) of the Olam Haba through him (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach). + 3:17 Isa 53:11

John 5:43I have come b'Shem Avi and you do not accept me. If another comes in his own name, him you will accept.

John 12:49Because I do not speak on my own, but the one having sent me [Elohim] HaAv He has given me a mitzvah of what I may say and what I may speak.

John 15:23The one having sin'as chinom (hatred without cause) for me (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach) has sin'as chinom for HaAv of me.

John 17:8Because the devarim which You gave me, of these I have been shomer, and they received them, and they have da'as beemes that from You I came forth, and they have emunah 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 →

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