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John 8:38

I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

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ASV

I speak the things which I have seen with my Father: and ye also do the things which ye heard from your father.

KJV

I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

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16 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ἃhaThose whichG3739 →
ἐγὼegōI myselfG1473 →
ἑώρακαhe'ōrakahave seenG3708 →
παρὰparawithG3844 →
τῷtōtheG3588 →
πατρὶpatriFatherG3962 →
λαλῶ·lalōI speak;G2980 →
καὶkaialsoG2532 →
ὑμεῖςhumeisyou yourselvesG4771 →
οὖνounthereforeG3767 →
ἃhawhat thingsG3739 →
ἠκούσατεēkousateyou have heardG191 →
παρὰparafromG3844 →
τοῦtoutheG3588 →
πατρὸςpatrosfatherG3962 →
ποιεῖτε.¶poieiteyou do.G4160 →

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Isaiah 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.John 16:13However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.John 5:19So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.John 3:11Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.John 8:44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.John 5:30I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.John 12:49–50I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.John 8:41You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”John 3:32He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.John 14:10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.1 John 3:8–10The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.John 14:24Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.John 8:26“I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”1 John 1:2And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.John 8:18I am One who testifies about Myself, and the Father, who sent Me, also testifies about Me.”John 17:8For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.Matthew 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

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