John 8:38
Good News Translation
I talk about what my Father has shown me, but you do what your father has told you."

New Revised Standard Version
I declare what I have seen in the Father’s presence; as for you, you should do what you have heard from the Father.”

Contemporary English Version
I am telling you what my Father has shown me, just as you are doing what your father has taught you.

New American Bible
I tell you what I have seen in the Father’s presence; then do what you have heard from the Father.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the things that you have seen with your father.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the things that you have seen with your father.

speak.

John 8:26 Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world.

John 3:32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth: and no man receiveth his testimony.

John 5:19,30 Then Jesus answered and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner. . . .

John 12:49,50 For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak. . . .

John 14:10,24 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father who abideth in me, he doth the works. . . .

John 17:8 Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me.

and ye.

John 8:41,44 You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God. . . .

Matthew 3:7 And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

1 John 3:8-10 He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil. . . .

Context
The Children of the Devil
37I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. 38I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the things that you have seen with your father. 39They answered and said to him: Abraham is our father. Jesus saith them: If you be the children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham.…
Cross References
John 8:41
You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.

John 8:44
You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

John 8:37
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