Christian Standard Bible
John 8:42
42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on my own, but he sent me.
John 8:42 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)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; God sent me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.
Context of John 8:42
40But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 41You’re doing what your father does.” “We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father — God.” Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on my own, but he sent me. 43Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to my word. 44You are of your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
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Εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς· εἰ ὁ θεὸς πατὴρ ὑμῶν ἦν, ἠγαπᾶτε ἂν ἐμέ· ἐγὼ γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐξῆλθον καὶ ἥκω. οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀπ᾽ ἐμαυτοῦ ἐλήλυθα, ἀλλ᾽ ἐκεῖνός με ἀπέστειλεν.Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Jesusὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- JesusἸησοῦςIēsous · JesusG2424
- saidλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
- unto themαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
- Ifεἰei · ifG1487
- Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
- wereεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
- yourσύsu · youG4771
- Fatherπατήρpatēr · fatherG3962
- ye would loveἀγαπάωagapaō · to loveG25
- ·ἄνan · ifG302
- meἐγώegō · I/weG1473
- forγάρgar · forG1063
- proceeded forthἐξέρχομαιexerchomai · to go outG1831
- andκαίkai · andG2532
- cameἥκωhēkō · to come/be presentG2240
- fromἐκek ex · out fromG1537
- neitherοὐδέoude · norG3761
- came Iἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
- ofἀπόapo · away fromG575
- myselfἐμαυτοῦemautou emautō emauton · myselfG1683
- butἀλλάalla · butG235
- heἐκεῖνοςekeinos · thatG1565
- sentἀποστέλλωapostellō · to sendG649
Cross-references for John 8:42
- John 5:23so that all people may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
- John 15:23The one who hates me also hates my Father.
- Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me? says the Lord of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.” Yet you ask, “How have we despised your name?”
- 1 Corinthians 16:22If anyone does not love the Lord, a curse be on him. Our Lord, come!
- 1 John 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of him.
- John 1:14The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- John 16:27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
- John 17:8because I have given them the words you gave me. They have received them and have known for certain that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
- Revelation 22:1Then he showed me the river of the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
- John 5:43I have come in my Father’s name, and yet you don’t accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
- John 7:28As he was teaching in the temple, Jesus cried out, “You know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me is true. You don’t know him;
- John 12:49For I have not spoken on my own, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a command to say everything I have said.
- John 14:10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who lives in me does his works.
- Galatians 4:4When the time came to completion, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- 1 John 4:9God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him.
Commentaries on John 8:42
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 42If God were your Father, ye would love me - I came from God, and it would be absurd to suppose that you would persecute me if you were under the influence of God. The children of the same father should not murder each other.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 42If God were your Father - If you had the spirit of God, or love to him, or were worthy to be called his children. Ye would love me - Jesus was “the brightness of the Father‘s glory and the express image of his person,” Hebrews 1:3. “Everyone that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him,” 1 John 5:1. From this we see: 1.that all who truly love God, love his Son Jesus Christ. 2.that men that pretend that they love God, and reject his…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 41-47Verses 41-47 Satan prompts men to excesses by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into the mind tends to ruin men's souls. He is the great promoter of falsehood of every kind. He is a liar, all his temptations are carried on by his calling evil good, and good evil, and promising freedom in sin. He is the author of all lies; whom liars resemble and obey, with whom all liars shall have their portion for ever. The special lusts of the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-59The debate about whether Jesus is the Messiah continues from 7:52. Jesus remained at the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem. During the feast, the conflicts Jesus encountered in chapter 7 continued and intensified.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 42-4342-43. If God were your Father, ye would love me--"If ye had anything of His moral image, as children have their father's likeness, ye would love Me, for I am immediately of Him and directly from Him." But "My speech" (meaning His peculiar style of expressing Himself on these subjects) is unintelligible to you because ye cannot take in the truth which it conveys.Read the comment
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Commentaries on John 8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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