John 8:42
Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; for I did not come of my own accord, but he sent me.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
43Why do you not understand my speech? it is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
Cross References
John 3:17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world might be saved through him.
John 5:43I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.
John 12:49For I have not spoken of my own accord; but the Father who sent me, he commanded what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 15:23He who hates me hates my Father also.
John 17:8For I have given to them the words which you gave me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came from you, and they have believed that you did 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 →