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John 8:40

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But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

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John 8:40 in other translations

But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.

John 8:40 · American Standard Version

John 8:40 in context

  1. 38I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”
  2. 39They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.”
    Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.
  3. 40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.
  4. 41You do the works of your father.”
    They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”
  5. 42Therefore 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.