John 8:38

New Century Version

I am telling you what my Father has shown me, but you do what your father has told you.”

Cross References

Matthew 3:7

Many of the Pharisees and Sadducees came to the place where John was baptizing people. When John saw them, he said, “You are snakes! Who warned you to run away from God’s coming punishment?

John 14:10

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say to you don’t come from me, but the Father lives in me and does his own work.

John 14:24

Those who do not love me do not obey my teaching. This teaching that you hear is not really mine; it is from my Father, who sent me.

John 17:8

I gave them the teachings you gave me, and they accepted them. They knew that I truly came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

John 3:32

He tells what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts what he says.

John 5:19

But Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing alone. The Son does only what he sees the Father doing, because the Son does whatever the Father does.

John 5:30

“I can do nothing alone. I judge only the way I am told, so my judgment is fair. I don’t try to please myself, but I try to please the One who sent me.

John 8:26

I have many things to say and decide about you. But I tell people only the things I have heard from the One who sent me, and he speaks the truth.”

John 8:41

So you are doing the things your own father did.” But they said, “We are not like children who never knew who their father was. God is our Father; he is the only Father we have.”

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning and was against the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he shows what he is really like, because he is a liar and the father of lies.