John 8:41

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born in sexual immorality; we have one Father: God.”

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In The King James Version

Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

In Context

40Yet, now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and am here; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.

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Cross References

Exodus 4:22You must say to Pharaoh, 'This is what Yahweh says: Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Deuteronomy 32:6Do you reward Yahweh in this way, 1 you foolish and senseless people? 1 Is he not your father, the one who has created you? 1 He made you and established you. 1

Isaiah 63:16For you are our father, 1 though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not recognize us, 1 you, Yahweh, are our father. 'Our Redeemer' has been your name from ancient times. 1

Jeremiah 3:19As for me, I said, 'How I want to treat you as my son and give you a pleasant land, 1 an inheritance more beautiful than what is in any other nation!' I would have said, 'You will call me “my father”.' 1 I would have said that you would not turn from following me. 1

Ezekiel 16:20Then you took your sons and daughters whom you bore for me, and you sacrificed them to the images to be devoured as food. Are your acts of prostitution a small matter?

Hosea 1:2When Yahweh spoke at first through Hosea, he said to him, 1 “Go, take for yourself a wife who is a prostitute. 1 She will have children who are the result of her prostitution. 1 For the land is committing great prostitution 1 by forsaking Yahweh.”

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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