John 8:40
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
KJV
νῦν δὲ ζητεῖτέ με ἀποκτεῖναι, ἄνθρωπον ὃς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ὑμῖν λελάληκα, ἣν ἤκουσα παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ· τοῦτο Ἀβραὰμ οὐκ ἐποίησεν.
Greek NT
Nunc autem quæritis me interficere, hominem, qui veritatem vobis locutus sum, quam audivi a Deo : hoc Abraham non fecit.
Vulgate
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.
ASV
But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
ζητέω
zeteo
verb · 117×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
λαλέω
laleo
verb · 298×
νῦν
nun
adverb · 147×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
παρά
para
preposition · 191×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἀλήθεια
aletheia
noun · 109×
ἀποκτείνω
apokteino
verb · 74×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
Ἀβραάμ
abraam
noun · 73×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. The things done by Christ after the manner of men, are not so done only to establish the Incarnation, but also to educate us for virtue. For had He done all as God, how could we have known, on falling in with such things as we wished not, what we must do? As, for instance, when He was in this very place, and the Jews would have killed Him, He came into the midst of them, and…
Having manifested what he was and what he is, he shows the great fruit of his confession; and being about to examine by what method God and the happy life may be found, he enlarges on the nature and power of memory. Then he examines his own acts, thoughts and affections, viewed under the threefold division of temptation; and commemorates the Lord, the one mediator of God and me…
When we say that Christ is perfect God and perfect man, we assuredly attribute to Him all the properties natural to both the Father and mother. For He became man in order that that which was overcome might overcome. For He Who was omnipotent did not in His omnipotent authority and might lack the power to rescue man out of the hands of the tyrant. But the tyrant would have had a…
Cross-references
- Gal 4:16 — Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
- Gal 4:29 — But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
- Isa 57:3 — But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
- John 8:26 — I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
- John 8:26 — I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
- John 14:10 — Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
- John 15:23 — He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
- John 17:17 — Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
- 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.
- Luke 6:41 — And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
- Prov 26:28 — A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
- Ps 37:32 — The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
- Rev 12:12 — Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath bu