John 8:49
Yeshua answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
In Context
48Then the Judeans answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
50But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
Cross References
Proverbs 26:4Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.
Isaiah 49:3He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
John 8:29He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
John 12:28Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.”
John 14:13Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Philippians 2:6who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Matthew Henry on John 8:49-51
Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees. 48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? 49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me. 50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth. Here is, I. The malice of hell breaking out in the base language which the unbelieving Jews gave to our Lord Jesus. Hitherto they had cavilled at his doctrine, and had made invidious remarks upon it; but, having… Read the whole commentary →