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Selected Verse: John 8:38 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Joh 8:38 |
King James |
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
my Father . . . your father--(See on Joh 8:23). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
I speak ... - Joh 3:11-13.
My Father - God.
Your father - The devil. See Joh 8:44. To see here means to learn of. They had learned of or been taught by the devil, and imitated him. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Ye have seen
The best texts read ἠκούσατε, ye heard. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
I 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. |
23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.