John 8:42

8:42 Jesus replied, ¹  “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. ²  I ³  have not come on my own initiative, ⁴  but he ⁵  sent me.

John 8:47

8:47 The one who belongs to ⁶  God listens and responds ⁷  to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, ⁸  because you don’t belong to God.” ⁹ 

John 8:55

8:55 Yet ¹⁰  you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, ¹¹  I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey ¹²  his teaching. ¹³ 

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¹ tn Grk “Jesus said to them.”

² tn Or “I came from God and have arrived.”

³ tn Grk “For I.” Here γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

⁴ tn Grk “from myself.”

⁵ tn Grk “that one” (referring to God).

⁶ tn Grk “who is of.”

⁷ tn Grk “to God hears” (in the sense of listening to something and responding to it).

⁸ tn Grk “you do not hear” (in the sense of listening to something and responding to it).

⁹ tn Grk “you are not of God.”

¹⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Yet” to indicate the contrast present in the context.

¹¹ tn Grk “If I say, ‘I do not know him.’”

¹² tn Grk “I keep.”

¹³ tn Grk “his word.”