New American Standard Bible 1995
John 8:37-44
37I know that you are 1Abraham’s descendants; yet 2you seek to kill Me, because My word 3has no place in you. 38I speak the things which I have seen 4with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from 5your father.”
39They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is 6our father.” Jesus said to them, “7If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham. 40But as it is, 8you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has 9told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do. 41You are doing the deeds of 10your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; 11we have one Father: God.” 42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, 12you would love Me, 13for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have 14not even come on My own initiative, but 1516He sent Me. 43Why do you not understand 1718what I am saying? It is because you cannot 19hear My word. 4420You are of 21your father the devil, and 22you want to do the desires of your father. 23He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because 24there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks 25a lie, he 26speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of 27lies.
Notes
- 1. John 8:37 Matt 3:9; John 8:39 ↩
- 2. John 8:37 John 7:1; 8:40 ↩
- 3. John 8:37 Or makes no progress ↩
- 4. John 8:38 Or in the presence of ↩
- 5. John 8:38 John 8:41, 44 ↩
- 6. John 8:39 Matt 3:9; John 8:37 ↩
- 7. John 8:39 Rom 9:7; Gal 3:7 ↩
- 8. John 8:40 John 7:1; 8:37 ↩
- 9. John 8:40 John 8:26 ↩
- 10. John 8:41 John 8:38, 44 ↩
- 11. John 8:41 Deut 32:6; Is 63:16; 64:8 ↩
- 12. John 8:42 1 John 5:1 ↩
- 13. John 8:42 John 13:3; 16:28, 30; 17:8 ↩
- 14. John 8:42 John 7:28 ↩
- 15. John 8:42 Lit that One ↩
- 16. John 8:42 John 3:17 ↩
- 17. John 8:43 Or My way of speaking ↩
- 18. John 8:43 John 8:33, 39, 41 ↩
- 19. John 8:43 John 5:25 ↩
- 20. John 8:44 1 John 3:8 ↩
- 21. John 8:44 John 8:38, 41 ↩
- 22. John 8:44 John 7:17 ↩
- 23. John 8:44 Gen 3:4; 1 John 3:8, 15 ↩
- 24. John 8:44 1 John 2:4 ↩
- 25. John 8:44 Lit the lie ↩
- 26. John 8:44 Matt 12:34 ↩
- 27. John 8:44 Lit it ↩
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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