KJV King James Version
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.
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John 8:42
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
WEB World English Bible
Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
ASV American Standard Version
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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;
Surrounding context — John 8
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] 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.
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.
45 And because I tell [you] the truth, ye believe me not.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ΕἶπενG2036 · eiponto sayαὐτοῖςG846 · autosit/s/heὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoἸησοῦς·G2424 · IēsousJesusεἰG1487 · eiifὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoθεὸςG2316 · theosGodπατὴρG3962 · patērfatherὑμῶνG4771 · suyouἦν,G1510 · eimito beἠγαπᾶτεG25 · agapaōto loveἂνG302 · anifἐμέ·G1473 · egōI/weἐγὼG1473 · egōI/weγὰρG1063 · garforἐκG1537 · ekout fromτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoθεοῦG2316 · theosGodἐξῆλθονG1831 · exerchomaito go outκαὶG2532 · kaiandἥκω.G2240 · hēkōto come/be presentοὐδὲG3761 · oudenorγὰρG1063 · garforἀπ᾽G575 · apoaway fromἐμαυτοῦG1473 · egōI/weἐλήλυθα,G2064 · erchomaito come/goἀλλ᾽G235 · allabutἐκεῖνόςG1565 · ekeinosthatμεG3165 · memeἀπέστειλεν.G649 · apostellōto send
Cross-references
John 12:49For 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.John 14:10Believest 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.John 17:8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received [them], and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.John 17:25O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.John 15:23-24He that hateth me hateth my Father also.Malachi 1:6A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?John 1:14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.1 John 5:1-2Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.1 John 4:14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.John 5:43I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.1 Corinthians 16:22If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.John 7:28-29Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.John 3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.John 5:23That all [men] should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.1 John 4:9-10In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.John 16:27-28For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.Revelation 22:1And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.Galatians 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
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