The Truth Will Set You Free

John 8:38

In 9 translations

BSB: I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have 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.
WEB: I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”
ASV: I speak the things which I have seen with my Father: and ye also do the things which ye heard from your father.
LSV: I speak that which I have seen with My Father, and you, therefore, do that which you have seen with your father.”
YLT: I — that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father — ye do.'
DBY: I speak what I have seen with my Father, and ye then do what ye have seen with your father.
DRC: I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the things that you have seen with your father.
GNV: I speake that which I haue seene with my Father: and ye doe that which ye haue seene with your father.

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Where the editions differ

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NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἃ (“Those which”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ὃ (“That which”).
In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include μου (“of mine”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἃ (“what things”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ὃ (“what”).
NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἠκούσατε (“you have heard”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἑωράκατε (“you have seen”).
NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read τοῦ (“the”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read τῷ (“the”).
NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read πατρὸς (“father”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read πατρὶ (“father”).
In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include ὑμῶν (“of you”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.

SBLGNT apparatus (4)

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SBLGNT: ἃ ἐγὼ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἃ ἐγὼ; Robinson–Pierpont read Ἐγὼ ὃ.
SBLGNT: πατρὶ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read πατρὶ; Robinson–Pierpont add μου.
SBLGNT: ἃ ἠκούσατε. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἃ ἠκούσατε; Robinson–Pierpont read ὃ ἑωράκατε.
SBLGNT: τοῦ πατρὸς. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read τοῦ πατρὸς; the Greek text behind the NIV add ὑμῶν; Robinson–Pierpont read τῷ πατρὶ ὑμῶν.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT: ἃ ἐγὼ ἑώρακα παρὰ τῷ πατρὶ λαλῶ· καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν ἃ ἠκούσατε παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς ποιεῖτε.
RP2018: Ἐγὼ ὃ ἑώρακα παρὰ τῷ πατρί μου, λαλῶ· καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν ὃ ἑωράκατε παρὰ τῷ πατρὶ ὑμῶν, ποιεῖτε.
TR-Boyd: Ἐγὼ ὃ ἑώρακα παρὰ τῷ πατρί μου, λαλῶ· καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν ὃ ἑωράκατε παρὰ τῷ πατρὶ ὑμῶν, ποιεῖτε.
SCR1894: εγω ο εωρακα παρα τω πατρι μου λαλω και υμεις ουν ο εωρακατε παρα τω πατρι υμων ποιειτε

Who and where

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Literature, Sub-Apostolic Redeemer; Redemption Heredity Self-Righteousness Abraham Satan Temple God Jesus, the Christ

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

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 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…
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. And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
John 8:41You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
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 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.
John 3:32He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.
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. Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin,…
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.”
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 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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