John 8:42
Jesus then said to them, 'If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
43wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.
Cross References
Malachi 1:6A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I [am] a father, where [is] Mine honour? And if I [am] a master, where [is] My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: 'In what have we despised Thy name?'
John 3:17For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;
John 5:43'I have come in the name of my Father, and ye do not receive me; if another may come in his own name, him ye will receive;
John 12:49because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,
John 15:23'He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;
John 17:8because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe 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 →