John 8:42
Jesus said to them: If God were your Father, ye would love me; for I proceeded and came from God: I did not come of my own accord, but he sent me.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
43Why do ye not understand my speech? It is because ye cannot hear my speech.
Cross References
John 3:17For God sent not his Son into the world, to condemn the world; but that the world might live by means of him.
John 5:43I came in the name of my Father, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
John 12:49For I have not spoken from myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment, what I should speak, and what I should say.
John 15:23He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
John 17:8For, the words thou gavest to me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known certainly, that I came from thy presence; 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 →