John 8:39
They answered and sayde vnto him: Abraham is oure father. Iesus sayde vnto them. If ye were Abrahams chyldren ye wolde do the dedes of Abraham.
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
In The King James Version
In Context
38I speake that I have sene with my father: and ye do that which ye have sene with youre father.
Cross References
Matthew 3:9And se that ye ons thynke not to saye in your selues we haue Abraham to oure father. For I saye vnto you that God is able of these stones to rayse vp chyldern vnto Abraha.
John 8:37I knowe that ye are Abrahams seed: But ye seke meanes to kyll me because my sayinges have no place in you.
Romans 4:12and that he myght be the father of the circumcised not because they are circumcised only: but because they walke also in the steppes of that fayth yt was in oure father Abraham before the tyme of circumcision.
Romans 9:7nether are they all chyldren strayght waye because they are the seed of Abraham. But in Isaac shall thy seede be called:
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 →