I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.'John 8:38 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleI speak that which I have seen - I speak nothing but that unchangeable, eternal truth which I have received from the bosom of God.
Ye do that which ye have seen - Instead of ἑωρακατε, ye have seen, I think we should read ηκουσατε, ye have heard, on the authority of BCKL, fifteen others; Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, later Syriac in the margin, Gothic, one copy of the Itala; Origen, Cyril, and Chrysostom. This reading, says Bishop Pearce, (who has adopted it), seems preferable to the other, because it could not be said, with the same propriety, that the Jews had seen any thing with their father the devil, as it could that Jesus had seen with his.
Jesus saw the Father, for he was the Word that was with God from eternity. The Jews did not see, they only felt and heard, their father the devil. It is the interest of Satan to keep himself out of sight, and to work in the dark.
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John 3:32 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony.
John 5:19,30 Then answered Jesus and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do...
John 12:49,50 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak...
John 14:10,24 Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak to you I speak not of myself...
John 17:8 For I have given to them the words which you gave me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from you...
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John 8:41,44 You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God...
Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers...
1 John 3:8-10 He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested...
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