John 8:42
Jesus 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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43Why do you not understand my words? It is because you cannot hear my words.
Cross References
Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master. If I, then, am a father, where is my honor? If I am a master, where is the reverence for me?” says Yahweh of hosts to you priests, who despise my name. “But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'
John 3:17For God did not send the Son into the world in order to condemn the world, but in order to save the world through him.
John 5:43I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another should come in his own name, you would receive him.
John 12:49For I did not speak for myself, but it is the Father who sent me, who has given me the command about what to say and what to speak.
John 15:23He who hates me also hates my Father.
John 17:8for I have given them all the words that you gave me. They received them and truly knew 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 →