John 8:43

Ye are of youre father the devyll and the lustes of youre father ye will folowe.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

In Context

42Why do ye not knowe my speache? even because ye cannot abyde the hearynge of my wordes.

44He was a murtherer from the beginnynge and aboode not in the trueth because ther is no trueth in him. When he speaketh a lye then speaketh he of his awne. For he is a lyar and the father therof.

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Cross References

John 5:43I am come in my fathers name and ye receave me not. Yf another shall come in his awne name him will ye receave.

John 7:17If eny man will do his will he shall knowe of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speake of my selfe.

John 12:39Therfore coulde they not beleve because that Esaias sayth agayne:

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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