Parallel Verses
NET Bible
But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.
A Conservative Version
But now ye seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.
American Standard Version
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
But instead, you are trying to kill me, a man who has [only] told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this [kind of thing].
Anderson New Testament
But now you seek to kill me, a man that has spoken to you the truth, which I have heard from God; this Abraham did not.
Bible in Basic English
But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.
Common New Testament
but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
Daniel Mace New Testament
but now ye seek to kill me, the man who has told you the truth, such as I have learnt it of God: Abraham did not act thus.
Darby Translation
but now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.
Godbey New Testament
But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard with God: Abraham did not this.
Goodspeed New Testament
But instead you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth he has heard from God. Abraham would not have done that.
John Wesley New Testament
But now ye seek to kill me, a man who hath told you the truth which I have heard from God.
Julia Smith Translation
And now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.
King James 2000
But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who spoke to you the truth which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do.
Modern King James verseion
But now you seek to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth which I have heard beside God; this Abraham did not do.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But now ye go about to kill me, a man that have told you the truth, which I have heard of God: This did not Abraham.
Moffatt New Testament
but now you want to kill me ??to kill a man who has told you the truth, the truth I have learned from God. Abraham did not do that.
Montgomery New Testament
"But now you are seeking to kill me?? man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do that.
New Heart English Bible
But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.
Noyes New Testament
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath spoken to you the truth, which I heard from God; this did not Abraham.
Sawyer New Testament
but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I have heard from God; Abraham did not do this.
The Emphasized Bible
But, now, ye are seeking, to kill me, - A man who, the truth, unto you, hath spoken, which I have heard from God: this, Abraham, did not.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But now ye seek to kill me, a man who hath told you the truth, which I have heard from God. Abraham did not so.
Twentieth Century New Testament
But, as it is, you are seeking to put me to death--a man who has told you the Truth as he heard it from God. Abraham did not act in that way.
Webster
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.
Weymouth New Testament
But, in fact, you are longing to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do that.
Williams New Testament
But right now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that He has learned from God. Abraham never did that.
World English Bible
But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.
Worrell New Testament
But now ye are seeking to kill Me, a Man Who hath told you the truth, which I heard from My Father: this Abraham did not.
Worsley New Testament
but now ye seek to kill me, who have told you the truth which I have heard from God: Abraham did not thus.
Youngs Literal Translation
and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;
Themes
Abraham » How regarded by his descendants
Jesus Christ » The words that jesus Christ spoke
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Word Count of 37 Translations in John 8:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Priority Of Jesus Over Abraham
39 They answered him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus replied, "If you are Abraham's children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham. 40 But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this! 41 You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."
Cross References
John 8:26
I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world."
Psalm 37:12
Evil men plot against the godly and viciously attack them.
Psalm 37:32
Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.
John 8:37-38
I know that you are Abraham's descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.
John 8:56
Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad."
Romans 4:12
And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.
Galatians 4:16
So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Galatians 4:29
But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.
1 John 3:12-15
not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother's were righteous.
Revelation 12:4
Now the dragon's tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.
Revelation 12:12-13
Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them! But woe to the earth and the sea because the devil has come down to you! He is filled with terrible anger, for he knows that he only has a little time!"
Revelation 12:17
So the dragon became enraged at the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, those who keep God's commandments and hold to the testimony about Jesus. And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore.