John 8:38

NET Bible® (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!”

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Referenced Verses

  • John 5:19 : 19 So Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.
  • John 8:41 : 41 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.”
  • John 8:44 : 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • John 14:10 : 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.
  • John 14:24 : 24 The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
  • John 5:30 : 30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.
  • John 3:32 : 32 He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.
  • John 8:26 : 26 I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”
  • John 12:49-50 : 49 For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”
  • 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil. 9 Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God. 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.
  • John 17:8 : 8 because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 8:39-47
    9 verses
    83%

    39They answered him,“Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied,“If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

    40But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

    41You 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.”

    42Jesus replied,“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

    43Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

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

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

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

    47The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”

  • John 8:37
    80%

    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

  • John 8:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

    19Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”

  • John 8:26-29
    4 verses
    77%

    26I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”

    27(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

    28Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

    29And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

  • John 5:36-38
    3 verses
    76%

    36“But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete– the deeds I am now doing– testify about me that the Father has sent me.

    37And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

    38nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

  • John 8:54-56
    3 verses
    76%

    54Jesus replied,“If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say,‘He is our God.’

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

    56Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”

  • John 14:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’?

    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

    11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

  • John 10:36-38
    3 verses
    75%

    36do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world,‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said,‘I am the Son of God’?

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

    38But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

  • John 10:25
    75%

    25Jesus replied,“I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

  • John 5:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19So Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

    20For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

  • John 14:7
    75%

    7If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

  • John 15:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23The one who hates me hates my Father too.

    24If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.

  • John 8:49
    74%

    49Jesus answered,“I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father– and yet you dishonor me.

  • John 12:49-50
    2 verses
    74%

    49For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

    50And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

  • John 8:23
    74%

    23Jesus replied,“You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

  • John 8:16
    74%

    16But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

  • John 5:17
    74%

    17So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

  • John 3:11
    74%

    11I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

  • John 6:46
    73%

    46(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God– he has seen the Father.)

  • John 8:14
    73%

    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 people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

  • John 10:32
    72%

    32Jesus said to them,“I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”

  • John 15:8
    72%

    8My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.

  • John 16:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

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

    28I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

  • John 16:3
    72%

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

  • John 12:45
    72%

    45and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

  • John 14:28
    72%

    28You heard me say to you,‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.