John 8:41

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.””

— WEB

“Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.”

— KJV

“Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.”

— ASV

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Commentary

We be not born of fornication . . . we have one Father, God--meaning, as is generally allowed, that they were not an illegitimate race in point of religion, pretending only to be God's people, but were descended from His own chosen Abraham.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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