John 8:37

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

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  • John 7:1 : 1 And Jesus was walking after these things in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him,
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned;
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.
  • John 5:16-18 : 16 and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath. 17 And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;' 18 because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
  • John 5:44 : 44 how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that `is' from God alone ye seek not?
  • John 7:19 : 19 hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?'
  • John 7:25 : 25 Certain, therefore, of the Jerusalemites said, `Is not this he whom they are seeking to kill?
  • John 8:6 : 6 and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground,
  • John 8:33 : 33 They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?'
  • John 8:39-40 : 39 They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing; 40 and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;
  • John 8:43 : 43 wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.
  • John 8:45-47 : 45 `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me. 46 Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me? 47 he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'
  • John 8:59 : 59 they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
  • John 10:31 : 31 Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him;
  • John 11:53 : 53 From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;
  • John 12:39-43 : 39 Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said, 40 `He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;' 41 these things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. 42 Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue, 43 for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
  • Acts 13:26 : 26 `Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,
  • Rom 9:7 : 7 nor because they are seed of Abraham `are' all children, but -- `in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'
  • Matt 13:19-22 : 19 Every one hearing the word of the reign, and not understanding -- the evil one doth come, and doth catch that which hath been sown in his heart; this is that sown by the way. 20 `And that sown on the rocky places, this is he who is hearing the word, and immediately with joy is receiving it, 21 and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled. 22 `And that sown toward the thorns, this is he who is hearing the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, do choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

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  • John 8:38-47
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    38I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.'

    39They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

    40and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

    41ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'

    42Jesus then said to them, `If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;

    43wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.

    44`Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.

    45`And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

    46Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

    47he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'

  • John 5:38-40
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    38and His word ye have not remaining in you, because whom He sent, him ye do not believe.

    39`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

    40and ye do not will to come unto me, that ye may have life;

  • John 8:36
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    36if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

  • John 8:51-52
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    51verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see -- to the age.'

    52The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death -- to the age!

  • John 8:32-33
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    32and the truth shall make you free.'

    33They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?'

  • John 5:42
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    42but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.

  • John 8:55-56
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    55and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

    56Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.'

  • John 16:2-3
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    2out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

    3and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

  • John 8:19-24
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    19They said, therefore, to him, `Where is thy father?' Jesus answered, `Ye have neither known me nor my Father: if me ye had known, my Father also ye had known.'

    20These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;

    21therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

    22The Jews, therefore, said, `Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?'

    23and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

    24I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am `he', ye shall die in your sins.'

  • John 7:19
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    19hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?'

  • John 7:7
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    7the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

  • John 15:24-25
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    24if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

    25but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.

  • Acts 7:52
    70%

    52which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

  • John 8:13-15
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    13The Pharisees, therefore, said to him, `Thou of thyself dost testify, thy testimony is not true;'

    14Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself -- my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye -- ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.

    15`Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,

  • John 7:36
    69%

    36what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?'

  • John 7:34
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    34ye will seek me, and ye shall not find; and where I am, ye are not able to come.'

  • John 15:18
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    18if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

  • John 17:14
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    14I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;

  • Luke 3:8
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    8make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father -- Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham;

  • Rom 9:7
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    7nor because they are seed of Abraham `are' all children, but -- `in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

  • John 8:26
    69%

    26many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I -- what things I heard from Him -- these I say to the world.'

  • John 15:4
    69%

    4remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

  • John 8:49
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    49Jesus answered, `I have not a demon, but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me;

  • John 18:8
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    8Jesus answered, `I said to you that I am `he'; if, then, me ye seek, suffer these to go away;'

  • John 7:25
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    25Certain, therefore, of the Jerusalemites said, `Is not this he whom they are seeking to kill?

  • John 3:11
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    11`Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

  • John 10:26
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    26but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,