John 8:38

New International Reader's Version

I am telling you what I saw when I was with my Father. You are doing what you have heard from your father.”

Cross References

Matthew 3:7

John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing. He said to them, “You are like a nest of poisonous snakes! Who warned you to escape the coming of God’s anger?

John 14:10

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father? Don’t you believe that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. The Father lives in me. He is the one who is doing his work.

John 14:24

Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. The words you hear me say are not my own. They belong to the Father who sent me.

John 17:8

I gave them the words you gave me. And they accepted them. They knew for certain that I came from you. They believed that you sent me.

John 3:32

He is a witness to what he has seen and heard. But no one accepts what he says.

John 5:19

Jesus answered, “What I’m about to tell you is true. The Son can do nothing by himself. He can do only what he sees his Father doing. What the Father does, the Son also does.

John 5:30

I can do nothing by myself. I judge only as I hear. And my judging is fair. I do not try to please myself. I try to please the one who sent me.

John 8:26

“I have a lot to say that will judge you. But the one who sent me can be trusted. And I tell the world what I have heard from him.”

John 8:41

You are doing what your own father does.” “We have the right to claim to be God’s children,” they objected. “The only Father we have is God himself.”

John 8:44

You belong to your father, the devil. You want to obey your father’s wishes. From the beginning, the devil was a murderer. He has never obeyed the truth. There is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his natural language. He does this because he is a liar. He is the father of lies.