John 8:42
Then said Jesus unto them, If God was your Father, ye would have loved me: for I came out from God, and I am coming; neither indeed came I of myself, but he hath sent me.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
43Wherefore do ye not understand my speech? because ye cannot hear my word.
Cross References
John 3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world by him might be saved.
John 5:43I have come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another come in his own name, him ye will receive.
John 12:49Because I have not spoken of myself; but the Farther who has sent me, he gave me commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 15:23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
John 17:8For the declarations which thou gavest to me I have delivered to them; and they have received them, and have known assuredly that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou hast 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 →