John 8:38

³⁶ So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

³⁷ I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.

I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

³⁹ “Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.

⁴⁰ But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
KJV: I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
WEB: I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”
ASV: I speak the things which I have seen with [my] Father: and ye also do the things which ye heard from [your] father.
DARBY: I speak what I have seen with my Father, and ye then do what ye have seen with your father.
BLB: I speak the things I have seen with the Father; and you⁺, therefore, the things you⁺ have heard with [your] father, you⁺ do.”

ÅB: Jeg taler det jeg har sett hos min Far; så gjør også dere det dere har hørt av deres far.
OTB: Jeg deler med dere det Jeg har sett i Faderens nærvær, og dere gjør det dere har hørt fra deres far.”
B1930: Jeg taler det jeg har sett hos min Fader; så gjør også I det I har hørt av eders far.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

John 5:19
So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
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John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
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John 5:30
I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
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John 8:41
You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
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John 12:49–50
I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
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John 14:10
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.
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John 3:32
He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.
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John 14:24
Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.
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