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Contemporary English Version

John 8:38

I am telling you what my Father has shown me, just as you are doing what your father has taught you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abraham;   God;   Jesus Continued;   Satan;   Self-Righteousness;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Suffering;   Unbelief;   Understanding;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Disciples;   Jews in the New Testament;   Works;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Annunciation, the ;   Character of Christ;   Children of God;   Consciousness;   Death of Christ;   Deceit, Deception, Guile;   Error;   Example;   Foresight;   Hearing;   Immanence ;   Incarnation (2);   Judging (by Men);   Prophet;   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Son of God;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Father;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 21;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I am telling you what my Father has shown me. But you do what your father has told you."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I speake that I have sene with my father: and ye do that which ye have sene with youre father.
Hebrew Names Version
I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."
International Standard Version
I declare what I have seen in mythe">[fn] Father's presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father."John 3:32;">[xr]
New American Standard Bible
"I speak of the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father."
New Century Version
I am telling you what my Father has shown me, but you do what your father has told you."
Update Bible Version
I speak the things which I have seen from the Father. And you therefore, [should] do the things which you heard from the Father.
Webster's Bible Translation
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
English Standard Version
I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."
World English Bible
I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
I speak that which I have seen with my father, and ye do that which ye have heard from your father.
Weymouth's New Testament
The words I speak are those I have learnt in the presence of the Father. Therefore you also should do what you have heard from your father."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y speke tho thingis, that Y say at my fadir; and ye doen tho thingis, that ye sayn at youre fadir.
English Revised Version
I speak the things which I have seen with my Father: and ye also do the things which ye heard from your father.
Berean Standard Bible
I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."
Amplified Bible
"I tell the things that I have seen at My Father's side [in His very presence]; so you also do the things that you heard from your father."
American Standard Version
I speak the things which I have seen with my Father: and ye also do the things which ye heard from your father.
Bible in Basic English
I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.
Complete Jewish Bible
I say what my Father has shown me; you do what your father has told you!"
Darby Translation
I speak what I have seen with my Father, and ye then do what ye have seen with your father.
Etheridge Translation
That which I have seen with my Father I speak, and that which you have seen with your father you do.
Murdock Translation
I speak that which I have seen with my Father, and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
King James Version (1611)
I speake that which I haue seene with my Father: and ye do that which ye haue seene with your father.
New Living Translation
I am telling you what I saw when I was with my Father. But you are following the advice of your father."
New Life Bible
I speak of what I saw when I was with My Father. You do what you have seen your father do."
New Revised Standard
I declare what I have seen in the Father's presence; as for you, you should do what you have heard from the Father."
Geneva Bible (1587)
I speake that which I haue seene with my Father: and ye doe that which ye haue seene with your father.
George Lamsa Translation
I speak what I have seen with my Father; and you do what you have seen with your father.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
What things, I, have seen with the Father, I am speaking; Ye, also, then, what things ye have heard from your father, are doing. -
Douay-Rheims Bible
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the things that you have seen with your father.
Revised Standard Version
I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I speake that whiche I haue seene with my father: and ye do that whiche ye haue seene with your father.
Good News Translation
I talk about what my Father has shown me, but you do what your father has told you."
Christian Standard Bible®
I speak what I have seen
King James Version
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
Lexham English Bible
I speak the things that I have seen with the Father; so also you do the things that you have heard from the Father."
Literal Translation
I speak what I have seen with My Father. And you therefore do what you have seen with your father.
Young's Literal Translation
I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I speake that I haue sene of my father, & ye do that ye haue sene of youre father.
Mace New Testament (1729)
what I have learnt from my father, that I tell: and what you have learnt from your father, that you do.
New English Translation
I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"
New King James Version
I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with [fn] your father."
Simplified Cowboy Version
I am acting like my Father and y'all are behaving like yours."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father."
Legacy Standard Bible
I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father."

Contextual Overview

38 I am telling you what my Father has shown me, just as you are doing what your father has taught you. 39 The people said to Jesus, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus replied, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do what Abraham did. 40 Instead, you want to kill me for telling you the truth that God gave me. Abraham never did anything like that. 41 But you are doing exactly what your father does." "Don't accuse us of having someone else as our father!" they said. "We just have one father, and he is God." 42 Jesus answered: If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and only from him. He sent me. I did not come on my own. 43 Why can't you understand what I am talking about? Can't you stand to hear what I am saying? 44 Your father is the devil, and you do exactly what he wants. He has always been a murderer and a liar. There is nothing truthful about him. He speaks on his own, and everything he says is a lie. Not only is he a liar himself, but he is also the father of all lies. 45 Everything I have told you is true, and you still refuse to have faith in me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

speak: John 8:26, John 3:32, John 5:19, John 5:30, John 12:49, John 12:50, John 14:10, John 14:24, John 17:8

and ye: John 8:41, John 8:44, Matthew 3:7, 1 John 3:8-10

Reciprocal: Isaiah 51:16 - I have put Isaiah 59:21 - my words John 3:11 - We speak John 6:64 - there John 8:18 - one John 8:40 - a man John 16:13 - for 1 John 1:2 - which was

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I speak that which I have seen with my Father,.... This is an aggravation of the sin of the Jews, in seeking to kill Christ, on account of his doctrine, since it was not his own, but his Father's; was not merely human, but divine; was what he the only begotten Son, that lay in the bosom of his Father, had seen in his heart, in his purposes, and decrees, in his council, and covenant, and so was clear, complete, certain, and to be depended on:

and ye do that which ye have seen with your father; meaning the devil, whom, though they had not scan with their eyes, nor any of his personal actions; yet acted so much under his influence, and according to his will, as if they had close and intimate consultation with him, and took their plan of operation from him, and had him continually before them, as their example and pattern, to copy after. The Ethiopic version reads, "what ye have heard"; and so it is read in three of Beza's copies, and in three of Stephens's.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I speak ... - John 3:11-13.

My Father - God.

Your father - The devil. See John 8:44. To see here means to learn of. They had learned of or been taught by the devil, and imitated him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 38. I speak that which I have seen — I speak nothing but that unchangeable, eternal truth which I have received from the bosom of God.

Ye do that which ye have seen — Instead of εωρακατε, ye have seen, I think we should read ηκουσατε, ye have heard, on the authority of BCKL, fifteen others; Coptic, AEthiopic, Armenian, later Syriac in the margin, Gothic, one copy of the Itala; Origen, Cyril, and Chrysostom. This reading, says Bishop Pearce, (who has adopted it,) seems preferable to the other, because it could not be said, with the same propriety, that the Jews had seen any thing with their father the devil, as it could that Jesus had seen with his.

Jesus saw the Father, for he was the WORD that was with God from eternity. The Jews did not see, they only felt and heard, their father the devil. It is the interest of Satan to keep himself out of sight, and to work in the dark.


 
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