John 8:42
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
43Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word.
Cross References
Malachi 1:6A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
John 3:17For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.
John 5:43I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
John 12:49For I spake not from myself; but the Father which sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 15:23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
John 17:8for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they 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 →