John 8:37
I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
KJV
οἶδα ὅτι σπέρμα Ἀβραάμ ἐστε· ἀλλὰ ζητεῖτέ με ἀποκτεῖναι, ὅτι ὁ λόγος ὁ ἐμὸς οὐ χωρεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν.
Greek NT
Scio quia filii Abrahæ estis : sed quæritis me interficere, quia sermo meus non capit in vobis.
Vulgate
I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; yet ye seek to kill me, because my word hath not free course in you.
ASV
I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἴδω
eido
verb · 317×
ζητέω
zeteo
verb · 117×
λόγος
logos
noun · 330×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
σπέρμα
sperma
noun · 44×
χωρέω
choreo
verb · 9×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἀποκτείνω
apokteino
verb · 74×
Ἀβραάμ
abraam
noun · 73×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐμός
emos
possessive_pronoun · 69×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. A shameless and a forward thing is wickedness, and when it ought to hide itself, then is it the fiercer. As was the case with the Jews. For when they ought to have been pricked by what was said, admiring the boldness and conclusiveness of the words, they even insult Him, calling Him a Samaritan, and saying that He had a devil, and they ask, Said we not well that you are a Sa…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 2:14 — But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- Acts 13:26 — Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
- John 5:38 — And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
- 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 7:19 — Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
- John 8:33 — They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
- John 8:39 — They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
- John 8:43 — Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
- John 8:45 — And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
- John 8:47 — He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
- John 8:56 — Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
- John 8:59 — Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
- John 11:53 — Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
- John 12:39 — Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
- John 15:7 — If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
- Luke 4:29 — And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
- Matt 13:15 — For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should under
- Rom 2:28 — For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
- Rom 9:7 — Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
- Rom 9:7 — Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.