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John 8:40

King James Version (KJV)

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— D.L. Moody

John 8:40

Verse 40 of 59

Scripture focus

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.

John 8:40 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on John 8:40

Theological / Devotional

Kill me. See v. 37; cf. eh. 7:1, 25.

A man. Gr. anthropos, here used in the sense of a person.

Truth. See on v. 32. Jesus’ only “crime” was that He had come to tell the truth, which He had received from God.

This did not Abraham. Abraham was responsive to the divine voice. When asked to leave his kindred and his father’s house he “obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went” (Heb. 1 1 :8; cf. Gen. 12:1). His persistent walk of faith won for him the title, “father of all them that believe” (Rom. 4:11). When Christ visited Abraham in the plains of Mamre, Abraham did not go about to kill Him, but received Him as an honored guest (Gen. 18:1-5).

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