John 8:41
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.
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
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
- You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
- KJV
- Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
- WEB
- You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”
- ASV
- Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.
- DARBY
- Ye do the works of your father. They said [therefore] to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.
- BLB
- You⁺ are doing the works of your⁺ father.” Therefore they said to Him, “We have not been born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—God.”
- ÅB
- Dere gjør deres fars gjerninger. De sa til ham: Vi er ikke avlet i hor, vi har én far, Gud.
- OTB
- Dere følger deres egen fars veier.” “Vi er ikke uekte barn,” protesterte de. “Den eneste Far vi har er Gud selv.”
- B1930
- I gjør eders fars gjerninger. De sa til ham: Vi er ikke avlet i hor, vi har én far, Gud.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Read in contextIsaiah 63:16
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
Read in contextJohn 8:38
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
Read in contextJohn 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.
Read in contextMalachi 2:11
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
Read in contextJeremiah 3:19
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
Read in contextJeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
Read in contextIsaiah 57:3–7
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
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