John 8:40

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But 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.

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  • John 8:26 : 26 I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."
  • Rev 12:12-13 : 12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short. 13 When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
  • Rev 12:17 : 17 Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.
  • Rev 12:4 : 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.
  • Gal 4:29 : 29 But just as the one born according to the flesh persecuted the one born through the Spirit, so it is also now.
  • 1 John 3:12-15 : 12 Not like Cain, who was from the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil and his brother’s were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates their brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in them.
  • Ps 37:12 : 12 The wicked person plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him.
  • Ps 37:32 : 32 The wicked person lies in wait for the righteous and seeks to kill him.
  • John 8:37-38 : 37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place in you. 38 I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."
  • John 8:56 : 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and was glad.
  • Rom 4:12 : 12 and to be the father of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
  • Gal 4:16 : 16 So now, have I become your enemy because I am telling you the truth?

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  • John 8:37-39
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    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place in you.

    38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."

    39They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

  • John 8:41-47
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    41You are doing the works of your father." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father—God."

    42Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

    43Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

    44You are from your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

    45But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.

    46Who among you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?

    47The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you do not listen, because you are not from God.

  • John 8:52-58
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    52Then the Jews said, "Now we know you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets. Yet you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

    53Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died too. Who do you claim to be?"

    54Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, whom you claim as your God.

    55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I know him and I keep his word.

    56Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and was glad.

    57Then the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and you have seen Abraham?"

    58Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.

  • John 7:19-20
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    19Didn't Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill Me?

    20The crowd answered, 'You have a demon! Who is trying to kill You?'

  • John 8:32-33
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    32And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

    33They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?"

  • John 8:19
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    19Then they asked him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

  • Acts 7:52
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    52Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered him—

  • John 10:32-33
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    32Jesus answered them, 'I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me?'

    33The Jews answered him, 'We are not stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.'

  • John 8:13-14
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    13The Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying about yourself; your testimony is not valid."

    14Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

  • Luke 3:8
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    8Produce fruit in keeping with repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

  • John 5:38-40
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    38Nor do you have His word abiding in you, because you do not believe the one He sent.

    39You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; yet it is they that testify about me.

    40But you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life.

  • John 8:23-26
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    23He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

    24That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

    25So they asked him, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.

    26I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."

  • John 8:49-50
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    49Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

    50Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.

  • John 5:33
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    33You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth.

  • John 5:18
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    18Because of this, the Jews were all the more determined to kill Him, not only because He was breaking the Sabbath, but also because He was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

  • Gal 4:16
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    16So now, have I become your enemy because I am telling you the truth?

  • John 18:34
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    34Jesus answered, 'Is that your own idea, or did others talk to you about me?'

  • John 18:8
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    8Jesus answered, 'I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go.'

  • John 10:25
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    25Jesus answered them, 'I told you, and you do not believe. The works I do in my Father's name testify about me,

  • Matt 3:9
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    9And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

  • John 18:37
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    37'So you are a king, then?' said Pilate. Jesus answered, 'You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this reason I came into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.'

  • John 5:45
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    45Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

  • John 10:36
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    36what about the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?

  • John 8:21
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    21Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."

  • John 7:25
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    25Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, 'Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

  • Gen 20:10
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    10And Abimelech asked Abraham, 'What was your reason for doing this?'