Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
I, what I have seen from my Father, speak: and ye, therefore, what ye have seen of your Father, do.
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.
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.
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."
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 I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, for my word has no place in you. 38 I, what I have seen from my Father, speak: and ye, therefore, what ye have seen of your Father, do. 39 They answered and said to him, Abraham is our Father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye had done Abraham's works.
Cross References
John 5:19
Then answered Jesus and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son can of himself do nothing, except what he sees the Father doing: for whatever he should do, also these does the Son likewise.
John 8:41
Ye do the works of your father. Then said they to him, We have not been born of fornication; for we have one Father, God.
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.
John 3:32
And what he saw and heard, this be testifies: and none receives his testimony.
John 5:30
I can do nothing of myself: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; for I seek not my will, but the will of the Father having sent me.
John 14:10
Believest thou not that I in the Father, and the Father is in me? the words which I speak to you, I speak not of myself: and the Father remaining in me does the works.
John 14:24
He not loving me will not keep my words.: and the word which ye hear is not of me, but of the Father having sent me.
Matthew 3:7
And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has indicated to you to flee from the wrath about to come?
John 8:26
Many things have I to speak and judge of you; but he having sent me is true; and what things I have heard from him these say I to the world.
John 12:49-50
For I spake not of myself; but the Father having sent me, he gave me a command, what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 17:8
For the words which thou hast given me, I have given them and they received, and knew in truth that I came out from thee, and they believed that thou sentest me.
1 John 3:8-10
He doing sin is of the accuser; for the accuser sins from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, that he might loose the works of the accuser.