יוחנן 8:38

Delitzsche Hebrew New Testament

אֲנִי מְדַבֵּר אֵת אֲשֶׁר רָאִיתִי אֵצֶל אָבִי וְאַתֶּם עֹשִׂים אֵת אֲשֶׁר רְאִיתֶם אֵצֶל אֲבִיכֶם׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Modern Translation
אני מדבר את אשר ראיתי אצל אבי ואתם עשים את אשר ראיתם אצל אביכם׃

Bible Verse Review
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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.