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 of my own accord, but he sent me.

Text-Critical English NT

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 works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of fornication. We have one Father—God.”

43Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot bear to accept my word.

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Cross References

John 3:17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through him.

John 5:43I have come in the name of my Father, and yet you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

John 12:49For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me gave me a commandment as to what I should say and what I should speak.

John 15:23Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

John 17:8For I have given them the words that yoʋ gave me, and they have received them and truly know that I came from yoʋ. They have also come to believe that yoʋ 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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