John 8:42
Therefore Yeshua said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
World Messianic Bible
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In Context
43Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.
Cross References
Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
John 3:17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
John 5:43I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
John 12:49For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak.
John 15:23He who hates me, hates my Father also.
John 17:8for the words which you have given me I have given to them; and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have 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 →