40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.


In Context

37 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

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.|

39 They answered him, |Our father is Abraham.| Jesus said to them, |If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of 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.

John 8:40 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:40do the things Abraham did. As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:40But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:40but now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:40and now, ye seek to kill me — a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:40But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.