Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 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.
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 "Our father is Abraham," they said. "If you were Abraham's children," replied Jesus, "it is Abraham's deeds that you would be doing. 40 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. 41 You are doing the deeds of your father." "We," they replied, "are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, namely God."
Cross References
John 8:26
"Many things I have to speak and to judge concerning you. But He who sent me is true, and the things which I have heard from Him are those which I have come into the world to speak."
John 8:37-38
You are descendants of Abraham, I know; but you want to kill me, because my teaching gains no ground within you.
John 8:56
Abraham your forefather exulted in the hope of seeing my day: and he saw it, and was glad."
Romans 4:12
and the forefather of the circumcised, namely of those who not merely are circumcised, but also walk in the steps of the faith which our forefather Abraham had while he was as yet uncircumcised.
Galatians 4:16
Can it be that I have become your enemy through speaking the truth to you?
Galatians 4:29
Yet just as, at that time, the child born in the common course of nature persecuted the one whose birth was due to the power of the Spirit, so it is now.
1 John 3:12-15
We are not to resemble Cain, who was a child of the Evil one and killed his own brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's actions righteous.
Revelation 12:4
His tail was drawing after it a third part of the stars of Heaven, and it dashed them to the ground. And in front of the woman who was about to become a mother, the Dragon was standing in order to devour the child as soon as it was born.
Revelation 12:12-13
For this reason be glad, O Heaven, and you who live in Heaven! Alas for the earth and the sea! For the Devil has come down to you; full of fierce anger, because he knows that his appointed time is short."
Revelation 12:17
This made the Dragon furiously angry with the woman, and he went elsewhere to make war upon her other children--those who keep God's commandments and hold fast to the testimony of Jesus.