John 8:39
They answered, and said to him: Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them: If ye were children of Abraham, ye would do the works of Abraham.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
38I speak that which I have seen with my Father, and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
Cross References
Matthew 3:9And do not think, and say within yourselves, that Abraham is our father: for I say to you, that God is able of these tones to raise up children to Abraham.
John 8:37I know that ye are the children of Abraham; but ye seek to kill me, because ye do not acquiesce in my word.
Romans 4:12and the father of the circumcision; not to them only who are of the circumcision, but to them also who fulfill the steps of the faith of our father Abraham in his uncircumcision.
Romans 9:7Neither are they all sons, because they are of the seed of Abraham: for it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Galatians 3:29And if ye are the Messiah's, then are ye the seed of Abraham, and heirs by the promise.
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 →