Johannes 8:42

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Jesus svarade dem: »Vore Gud eder fader, så älskaden I ju mig, ty från Gud har jag utgått, och från honom är jag kommen. Ja, jag har icke kommit av mig själv, utan det är han som har sänt mig.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

If: John 5:23, John 15:23, John 15:24, Malachi 1:6, 1 Corinthians 16:22, 1 John 5:1, 1 John 5:2

for: John 1:14, John 16:27, John 16:28, John 17:8, John 17:25, Revelation 22:1

neither: John 5:43, John 7:28, John 7:29, John 12:49, John 14:10, John 17:8, John 17:25, Galatians 4:4, 1 John 4:9, 1 John 4:10, 1 John 4:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:2 - the sons Song of Solomon 8:1 - find thee Matthew 25:42 - General Mark 7:6 - honoureth Luke 2:35 - that John 3:13 - but John 5:30 - can John 5:42 - that John 6:33 - cometh John 8:14 - for John 10:36 - sent John 11:42 - that thou John 13:3 - and that John 14:15 - General John 14:24 - and John 15:26 - which John 16:9 - General John 21:15 - lovest 1 Peter 1:8 - ye love

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Jesus said unto them, if God were your Father,.... By adoption; and this was discovered by the grace of regeneration; or in other words, if they had been born of God,

ye would love me; for in regeneration love to Christ is always implanted: it is a fruit of the Spirit, which always comes along with the superabounding grace of God in conversion; whoever are begotten again, according to abundant mercy, love an unseen Jesus; and where there is no love to Christ, there can be no regeneration: such persons are not born again; nor is God their Father, at least manifestatively:

for I proceeded forth; and came from God; the former of these phrases is observed by many learned men to be used by the Septuagint, of a proper natural birth, as in Genesis 15:4; and here designs the eternal generation of Christ, as the Son of God, being the only begotten of the Father, and the Son of the Father in truth and love; and the other is to be understood of his mission from him, as Mediator:

neither came I of myself; or did not take the office to himself, without being called unto it, and invested with it, by his Father:

but he sent me; not by force, or against the will of Christ, or by change of place, but by assumption of nature; he sent him at the time agreed upon, in human nature, to obtain eternal redemption for his people: and upon both these accounts Christ is to be loved by all regenerate persons, or who have God for their Father; both on account of his being the Son of God, of the same nature and essence with him, see 1 John 5:1; and on account of his mission into this world, as Mediator, since he was sent, and came to be the Saviour of lost sinners.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If 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 Son, have no evidence that they are the friends of God.

3.That those who reject the Bible cannot be the friends of God. If they loved God, they would love Him who came from him, and who bears his image.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 42. If 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.