John 8:40 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ 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.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ 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)

⁴⁰ 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

⁴⁰ 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

⁴⁰ 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

⁴⁰ 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.

English Standard Version 2016

⁴⁰ but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

John 8:40 Cross References

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Psalm 37:32

The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.

John 7:1

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

John 8:26

I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.

John 8:56

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

Romans 4:12

and the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

Galatians 4:16

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Galatians 4:29

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Revelation 12:17

And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 12:4

And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.