34 Jesus responded, “Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.d 35 A slave does not remain in the household forever,e but a son does remain forever.f 36 So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free. 37 I know you are descendants of Abraham,g but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place among you. 38 I speak what I have seenh in the presence of the Father;C,i so then, you do what you have heard from your father.”

39 “Our father is Abraham,” they replied.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.j 40 But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truthk that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 41 You’re doing what your father does.”l

“We weren’t bornm of sexual immorality,”n they said. “We have one Father—God.”o