John 8:41

The Priority Of Jesus Over Abraham

⁴⁰ 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. ⁴¹ You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God." ⁴² Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.

One Father

Sexual Immorality

Abraham

Jesus

John

No

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

Isaiah 64:8

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

John 8:38

I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."

John 8:44

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

Exodus 4:22

You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are the children of Yahweh 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, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.

Jeremiah 3:19

"But I said, 'How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!' and I said, 'You shall call me "My Father," and shall not turn away from following me.'

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16:20-21

Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,

Ezekiel 23:45-47

Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

Hosea 1:2

When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh."

Hosea 2:2-5

Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Malachi 1:6

"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How 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 holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.