John 8:41

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

You are doing the works of your father." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father—God."

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Ye{G5210} do{G4160} the works{G2041} of your{G5216} father.{G3962} {G3767} They{G2036} said unto him,{G846} We{G2249} were{G1080} not{G3756} born{G1080} of{G1537} fornication;{G4202} we have{G2192} one{G1520} Father,{G3962} [even] God.{G2316}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Ye{G5210} do{G4160}{(G5719)} the deeds{G2041} of your{G5216} father{G3962}. Then{G3767} said they{G2036}{(G5627)} to him{G846}, We{G2249} be{G1080} not{G3756} born{G1080}{(G5769)} of{G1537} fornication{G4202}; we have{G2192}{(G5719)} one{G1520} Father{G3962}, even God{G2316}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Ye do the dedes of youre father. Then sayde they vnto him: we were not borne of fornicacion. We have one father which is God.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Ye do the dedes of youre father. Then sayde they vnto him: We are not borne of fornicacion, we haue one father, euen God.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Ye do the workes of your father. Then said they to him, We are not borne of fornication: we haue one Father, which is God.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Ye do the deedes of your father. Then said they to him: We be not borne of fornication, we haue one father, euen God.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ‹Ye do the deeds of your father.› Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, `even' God.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    You people are doing the deeds of your father.”Then they said to Jesus,“We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 63:16 : 16 But you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Do not be exceedingly angry, LORD, and do not remember our sins forever. Behold us, we are all your people.
  • John 8:38 : 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 8:44 : 44 You 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.
  • Deut 32:6 : 6 Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, your Creator, the One who made you and established you?
  • Isa 57:3-7 : 3 But as for you, come here, you offspring of sorceresses, you children of adulterers and prostitutes! 4 Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open wide your mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of rebellion, offspring of deceit? 5 You burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; you slaughter children in the valleys, under crags of the cliffs. 6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, indeed, are your lot. To them you have poured out drink offerings and presented grain offerings. Should I relent concerning these things? 7 You have placed your bed on a high and lofty mountain; there you went up to offer sacrifices.
  • Exod 4:22 : 22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son,
  • Deut 14:1 : 1 You are children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave a bald spot on your foreheads for the dead.
  • Jer 3:19 : 19 I myself said, “How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.” I thought you would call me 'Father' and not turn away from following me.
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my dear son, my precious child? For as often as I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore, my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD.
  • Ezek 16:20-21 : 20 You even took the sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to the idols as food. Was your prostitution not enough? 21 You slaughtered my children and offered them up by making them pass through fire to these idols.
  • Ezek 23:45-47 : 45 But righteous men will judge them for committing adultery and shedding blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands. 46 For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: ‘Bring a great assembly against them and hand them over to terror and plunder.' 47 They will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses with fire.
  • Hos 1:2 : 2 When the LORD first began speaking through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of promiscuity and children of promiscuity, for the land is utterly unfaithful to the LORD."
  • Hos 2:2-5 : 2 The people of Judah and Israel will come together, appoint one leader, and rise up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel. 3 Say to your brothers, 'My people,' and to your sisters, 'She has received mercy.' 4 Plead with your mother, plead! For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her adulteries from before her face and her unfaithfulness from between her breasts. 5 Otherwise, I will strip her naked, expose her as on the day of her birth. I will make her like a wilderness, turn her into a dry land, and let her die of thirst.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am a father, where is the honor I deserve? If I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise my name. But you ask, 'How have we despised your name?'
  • Mal 2:11 : 11 Judah has been unfaithful, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

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    36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free.

    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."

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

    40 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.

  • John 8:42-49
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    42 Jesus 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.

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

    44 You 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.

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

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

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

    48 The Jews responded to him, "Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

    49 Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

  • 19 Then 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."

  • 42 They said, 'Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?'.

  • 13 They were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

  • 9 And 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.

  • 8 Produce 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.

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

  • 9 And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

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

  • John 5:17-18
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    71%

    17 But Jesus answered them, 'My Father is working until now, and I too am working.'

    18 Because 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.

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    36 what 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’?

    37 If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.

  • John 8:52-57
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    52 Then 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.'

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

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

    55 Yet 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 28 Then they said to him, 'What must we do to perform the works of God?'

  • 30 I and the Father are one.

  • 52 Which 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—

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

  • 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

  • 10 Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we deal treacherously with one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?

  • 34 They answered him, 'You were born entirely in sin, and you are teaching us?' And they threw him out.

  • 27 They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.

  • 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

  • 11 Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony.

  • 24 If I had not done the works among them that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these works, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.

  • 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

  • 16 And even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

  • 29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

  • 48 So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your ancestors; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

  • 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well.

  • 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.