John 8:38

³⁶ If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

³⁷ I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

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.

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
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
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John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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John 5:30
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
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John 8:41
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
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John 12:49–50
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
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John 14:10
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
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John 3:32
And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
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John 14:24
He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
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