John 8:40-42

Expanded Bible

⁴⁰ I am a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God, but you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like that. ⁴¹ So you are doing the things your own father did.”

But [or Therefore] they said to him, “We are not ·like children who never knew who their father was [illegitimate children; ^Lborn from/of fornication]. God is our Father; he is the only Father we have.”

⁴² Jesus said to them, “If God were really your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and now I am here. [^LFor] I did not come ·by my own authority [on my own]; God sent me.