Parallel Verses
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."
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 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.
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 ye go about to kill me, a man that have told you the truth, which I have heard of God: This did not Abraham. 41 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." 42 Jesus said unto them, "If God were your father, then would ye have loved me. For I proceeded forth and come from God. Neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Cross References
Isaiah 63:16
Yet art thou our father: For Abraham knoweth us not, neither is Israel acquainted with us. But thou LORD art our father and redeemer, and thy name is everlasting.
Isaiah 64:8
But now O LORD, thou father of ours: we are the clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the work of thy hands.
John 8:38
"I speak that I have seen with my father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father."
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father, ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning; And abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, then speaketh he of his own. For he is a liar, and the father thereof.
Deuteronomy 32:6
"Dost thou so reward the LORD? O foolish nation and unwise. Is not he thy father and thine owner? Hath he not made thee and ordained thee?
Exodus 4:22
And tell Pharaoh, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: Israel is mine eldest son,
Deuteronomy 14:1
Ye are the children of the LORD your God; cut not yourselves nor make you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death.
Isaiah 57:3-7
Come hither, therefore, ye charmer's children; ye sons of the adulterer and the whore.
Jeremiah 3:19
"'I have showed also, how I took thee up being but a child, and gave thee a pleasant land for thine heritage; yea, and a goodly Host of the Heathen: and how I commanded thee, that thou shouldest call me Father only, and not to shrink from me.
Jeremiah 31:20
Upon this complaint, I thought thus by myself: Is not Ephraim my dear son? Is he not the child, with whom I have had all mirth and pastime? For since the time that I first communed with him, I have him ever in remembrance: therefore my very heart driveth me unto him; gladly and lovingly will I have mercy upon him, sayeth the LORD.
Ezekiel 16:20-21
Thou hast taken thine own sons and daughters, whom thou hast begotten unto me: and these hast thou offered up to them, to be their meat. Is this but a small whoredom of thine, thinkest thou,
Ezekiel 23:45-47
O ye all that love virtue and righteousness, judge them! Punish them as adulterers and murderers ought to be judged and punished. For they are breakers of wedlock, and the blood is in their hands.
Hosea 1:2
First, when the LORD spake unto Hosea, he said unto him, "Go thy way, take a harlot to thy wife, and get children by her: for the land hath committed great whoredom against the LORD."
Hosea 2:2-5
As for your mother, ye shall chide with her, and reprove her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband, unless she put away her whoredoms out of my sight, and her adultery from her breasts.
Malachi 1:6
"Should not a son honour his father, and a servant his master? If I be now a father, where is mine honour? If I be the LORD, where am I feared? sayeth the LORD of Hosts, now, to you priests that despise my name. And if ye say, 'Wherein have we despised thy name?'
Malachi 2:11
Now hath Judah offended: yea the abomination is done in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah hath defiled the Sanctuary of the LORD, which he loved, and hath kept the daughter of a strange God.