John 8:40 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But now [instead] you are wanting and seeking to kill Me, a Man Who has told you the truth which I have heard from God. This is not the way Abraham acted.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Instead, you want to kill me, though I am the one who has spoken the truth I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But 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.

John 8:40 Cross References

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

Psalm 37:32

The wicked watch for the righteous and seek to kill them.

John 7:1

After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him.

John 8:26

I have much to say about you and much to condemn, but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”

John 8:56

Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and was glad.”

Romans 4:12

and likewise the ancestor of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but follow the example of the faith that our ancestor Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Galatians 4:16

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Galatians 4:29

But just as at that time the child who was born according to the flesh persecuted the child who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.

Revelation 12:17

Then the dragon was angry with the woman and went off to wage war on the rest of her children, those who keep the commandments of God and hold the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 12:4

His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to deliver a child, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.