John 8:40 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which 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 plots against the righteous, and gnashes his teeth at him;

Psalm 37:32

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.

John 7:1

After this Jesus went about in Galilee; he would not go about in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

John 8:26

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

John 8:56

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

Romans 4:12

and likewise the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but also follow the example of the faith which our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Galatians 4:16

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

Galatians 4:29

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

Revelation 12:17

Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.

Revelation 12:4

His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth;