John 8:42
Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
43"How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message.
Cross References
John 3:17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
John 5:43"I am come in the name of my Father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive.
John 12:49because I have never spoken on my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me gave me commandment what to say and what words to speak.
John 15:23"He who hates me hates my Father also.
John 17:8"for I have given them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and they have believed that thou didst send 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 →