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Selected Verse: John 8:42 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Joh 8:42 |
King James |
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| If God were your Father, ye would love me--"If ye had anything of His moral image, as children have their father's likeness, ye would love Me, for I am immediately of Him and directly from Him." But "My speech" (meaning His peculiar style of expressing Himself on these subjects) is unintelligible to you because ye cannot take in the truth which it conveys. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
If God were your Father - If you had the spirit of God, or love to him, or were worthy to be called his children.
Ye would love me - Jesus was "the brightness of the Father's glory and the express image of his person," Heb 1:3. "Everyone that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him," Jo1 5:1. From this we see:
1. that all who truly love God, love his Son Jesus Christ.
2. that men that pretend that they love God, and reject his Son, have no evidence that they are the friends of God.
3. that those who reject the Bible cannot be the friends of God. If they loved God, they would love Him who came from him, and who bears his image. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
I proceeded forth - from God (ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐξῆλθον)
Rev., came forth. The phrase occurs only here and in Joh 16:28. Ἑξελθεῖν is found in Joh 13:3; Joh 16:30, and emphasizes the idea of separation; a going from God to whom He was to return (and goeth unto God). Ἑξελθεῖν παρά (Joh 16:27; Joh 17:8), is going from beside, implying personal fellowship with God. Ἑξελθεῖν ἐκ, here, emphasizes the idea of essential, community of being: "I came forth out of."
And am come (ἥκω)
As much as to say, and here I am.
Of myself (ἀπ' ἐμαυτοῦ)
Of my own self-determination, independently, but my being is divinely derived. See on Joh 7:17. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| I proceeded forth - As God, and come - As Christ. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| If God were your Father, ye would love me - I came from God, and it would be absurd to suppose that you would persecute me if you were under the influence of God. The children of the same father should not murder each other. |
1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
30 Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;
28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.