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John 8:41
Ye, are doing the works of your father. They said unto him—We, of fornication, were not born: One father, have we—God.
John 8:41 · Rotherham Emphasised Bible
John 8:41 in other translations
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”
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In context
38 What things, I, have seen with the Father, I am speaking; Ye, also, then, what things ye have heard from your father, are doing.—
39 They answered and said unto him—Our father, is, Abraham. Jesus saith unto them—If, children of Abraham, ye are, the works of Abraham, are ye doing.
40 But, now, ye are seeking, to kill me,—A man who, the truth, unto you, hath spoken, which I have heard from God: this, Abraham, did not.
41 Ye, are doing the works of your father. They said unto him—We, of fornication, were not born: One father, have we—God.
42 Jesus said unto them—If, God, had been your father, ye had been loving me, for, I, from God, came forth, and am here; for, not even of myself, have I come, but, he, sent me forth.
43 Wherefore, is it, that, my speech, ye do not understand? because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye, are, of your father—the adversary, and, the covetings of your father, ye choose to be doing. He, was, a murderer, from the beginning, and, in the truth, he stood not; because truth is not in him: Whensoever he speaketh falsehood, of his own, he speaketh; because, false, he is, and, the father of it.
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