John 8:40
Good News Translation
All I have ever done is to tell you the truth I heard from God, yet you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like this!

New Revised Standard Version
but now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

Contemporary English Version
Instead, you want to kill me for telling you the truth that God gave me. Abraham never did anything like that.

New American Bible
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not.

now.

John 8:37 I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

Psalm 37:12,32 The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him with his teeth. . . .

Galatians 4:16,29 Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? . . .

1 John 3:12-15 Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just. . . .

Revelation 12:4,12,13,17 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered: that, when she should be delivered, he might devour her son. . . .

a man.

John 8:26,38,56 Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world. . . .

this.

Romans 4:12 And he might be the father of circumcision; not to them only that are of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the faith that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

Context
The Children of the Devil
39They answered and said to him: Abraham is our father. Jesus saith them: If you be the children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham. 40But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not. 41You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.…
Cross References
John 7:1
After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

John 8:26
Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world.

John 8:37
I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

1 John 3:12
Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just.

John 8:39
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