Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to Him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, even God.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Holman Bible
“We weren’t born
International Standard Version
You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."
A Conservative Version
Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We were not begotten from fornication. We have one Father, God.
American Standard Version
Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
You people are doing what your father does." They said to Him, "We were not born illegitimately; the only Father we have is God."
Anderson New Testament
You do the works of your father. They said to him: We were not born of lewdness; we have one father, God.
Bible in Basic English
You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.
Common New Testament
You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father God."
Daniel Mace New Testament
your actions are like your father. at this they reply'd, we are no bastards; we have but one father, even God.
Darby Translation
Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.
Godbey New Testament
You are doing the works of your father. They said to Him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, God.
Goodspeed New Testament
You are doing as your father does." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one father, God himself."
John Wesley New Testament
Abraham did not thus. Ye do the deeds of your father. They said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Julia Smith Translation
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.
King James 2000
You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You are doing the deeds of your father!" They said to him, "We were not born from sexual immorality! We have one father, God!"
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye do the deeds of your father." Then said they unto him, "We were not born of fornication. We have one father which is God."
Moffatt New Testament
You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We are no bastards: we have one father, even God."
Montgomery New Testament
"You are doing the deeds of your father." "We were not born of adultery," they said; "we have one Father, God."
NET Bible
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."
New Heart English Bible
You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
Noyes New Testament
Ye do the works of your father. They said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, God.
Sawyer New Testament
You do the works of your father. They said to him, We were not born by fornication, we have one father, God.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye, are doing the works of your father. They said unto him - We, of fornication, were not born: One father, have we - God.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We are not born of whoredom; we have one Father, even God.
Twentieth Century New Testament
You are doing what your own father does." "We are not bastards," they said, "we have one Father--God himself."
Webster
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Weymouth New Testament
You are doing the deeds of your father." "We," they replied, "are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, namely God."
Williams New Testament
You are practicing what your real father does." They said to Him, "We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, even God."
World English Bible
You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
Worrell New Testament
Ye do the works of your father." They say to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father??od."
Worsley New Testament
But ye do the works of your father. Then said they unto Him, We are not born of fornication, we have one Father, even God.
Youngs Literal Translation
ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, 'We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'
Themes
Evil » Words evil words of men » Works
Jesus Christ » The words that jesus Christ spoke
Jews, the » National character of » Pride of descent, &c
Self-delusion » Exemplified » Jews
Self-righteousness » Instances of » Pharisees
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 8:41
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Priority Of Jesus Over Abraham
40 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. 41 You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to Him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, even God. 42 Jesus said to them, If God were your father, you would love Me, for I went forth and came from God; for I did not come of Myself, but He sent Me.
Cross References
Isaiah 63:16
For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O Jehovah, are our Father, our Redeemer; Your name is from everlasting.
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Jehovah, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our Former; and we all are the work of Your hand.
John 8:38
I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you, then, do what you have seen with your father.
John 8:44
You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.
Deuteronomy 32:6
Do you thus give back to Jehovah, Oh foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?
Exodus 4:22
And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord: Israel is My son, My first-born.
Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the sons of Jehovah your God. You shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Isaiah 57:3-7
But draw near here, sons of the sorceress, seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:19
But I said, How shall I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance among the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call Me, My Father, and shall not turn away from Me.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still. Therefore My heart is troubled for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Jehovah.
Ezekiel 16:20-21
And you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to Me, and you gave these to them for food. Are your fornications small?
Ezekiel 23:45-47
And as righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
Hosea 1:2
The beginning of Jehovah speaking by Hosea. And Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of adultery and children of adultery. For the land has utterly gone lusting away from Jehovah.
Hosea 2:2-5
Contend! Contend with your mother, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. Let her therefore put away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts,
Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My fear? says Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. And you say, In what way have we despised Your name?
Malachi 2:11
Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy place of Jehovah, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.