Parallel Verses
Weymouth New Testament
The words I speak are those I have learnt in the presence of the Father. Therefore you also should do what you have heard from your father."
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
I declare what I've seen in my Father's presence, and you're doing what you've heard from your father."
A Conservative Version
I speak what I have seen from my Father, and ye therefore do what ye have seen from your father.
American Standard Version
I speak the things which I have seen with my Father: and ye also do the things which ye heard from your father.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
I am telling [you] about what I have seen in my Father's presence; but you [should] do what you have heard from your father."
Anderson New Testament
I speak what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have seen with your father.
Bible in Basic English
I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.
Common New Testament
I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your Father."
Daniel Mace New Testament
what I have learnt from my father, that I tell: and what you have learnt from your father, that you do.
Darby Translation
I speak what I have seen with my Father, and ye then do what ye have seen with your father.
Godbey New Testament
Whatsoever I have seen with the Father I speak: you therefore are doing the things which you heard with your father.
Goodspeed New Testament
It is what I have seen in the presence of my Father that I tell, and it is what you have heard from your father that you do."
John Wesley New Testament
I speak that which I have seen with my father, and ye do that which ye have heard from your father.
Julia Smith Translation
I, what I have seen from my Father, speak: and ye, therefore, what ye have seen of your Father, do.
King James 2000
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with your father.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I speak [the things] that I have seen with the Father; so also you do [the things] that you have heard from the Father."
Modern King James verseion
I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you, then, do what you have seen with your father.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"I speak that I have seen with my father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father."
Moffatt New Testament
I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you act as you have learned from your father."
Montgomery New Testament
"I am declaring what I have seen with the Father, and you are acting as you have learned from your father."
NET Bible
I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"
New Heart English Bible
I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have heard from your father."
Noyes New Testament
I speak what I have seen with the Father; and ye accordingly do what ye have seen with your father.
Sawyer New Testament
What I have seen with my Father I speak, and you also do what you have heard from your father.
The Emphasized Bible
What things, I, have seen with the Father, I am speaking; Ye, also, then, what things ye have heard from your father, are doing. -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
I speak what I have seen with my Father: and ye do therefore what ye have seen with your father.
Twentieth Century New Testament
I tell you what I have myself seen in the presence of my Father; and you, in the same way, do what you have learned from your father."
Webster
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
Williams New Testament
I am telling you what I have seen in my Father's presence, and you are practicing what you have learned from your father."
World English Bible
I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."
Worrell New Testament
I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; and ye, therefore, do the things which ye heard from your father.
Worsley New Testament
I speak that which I have seen with my Father, and ye do what ye have seen with your father.
Youngs Literal Translation
I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.'
Themes
Abraham » How regarded by his descendants
Jesus Christ » The words that jesus Christ spoke
Interlinear
Horao
οὖν
Oun
Usage: 417
Hos
ὅς ἥ ὅ
Hos
which, whom, that, who, whose, what, that which, whereof,
Usage: 980
Para
παρά
Para
Usage: 145
References
Morish
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 8:38
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Truth Will Set You Free
37 You are descendants of Abraham, I know; but you want to kill me, because my teaching gains no ground within you. 38 The words I speak are those I have learnt in the presence of the Father. Therefore you also should do what you have heard from your father." 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.
Names
Cross References
John 5:19
"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that the Son can do nothing of Himself--He can only do what He sees the Father doing; for whatever He does, that the Son does in like manner.
John 8:41
You are doing the deeds of your father." "We," they replied, "are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, namely God."
John 8:44
The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
John 3:32
What He has seen and heard, to that He bears witness; but His testimony no one receives.
John 5:30
"I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.
John 14:10
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on my own authority: but the Father dwelling within me carries on His own work.
John 14:24
He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine, but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he exclaimed, "O vipers' brood, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
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 12:49-50
Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in what words to speak.
John 17:8
For the truths which Thou didst teach me I have taught them. And they have received them, and have known for certain that I came out from Thy presence, and have believed that Thou didst send me.
1 John 3:8-10
He who is habitually guilty of sin is a child of the Devil, because the Devil has been a sinner from the very beginning. The Son of God appeared for the purpose of undoing the work of the Devil.