John 8:31–47

³¹Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, ‘If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, ³²and the truth shall make you free.’ ³³They answered him, ‘Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say—Ye shall become free?’ ³⁴Jesus answered them, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you—Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin, ³⁵and the servant doth not remain in the house—to the age, the son doth remain—to the age; ³⁶if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

³⁷‘I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

³⁸I—that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father—ye do.’ ³⁹They answered and said to him, ‘Our father is Abraham;’ Jesus saith to them, ‘If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing; ⁴⁰and now, ye seek to kill me—a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not; ⁴¹ye do the works of your father.’ They said, therefore, to him, ‘We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have—God;’ ⁴²Jesus then said to them, ‘If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me; ⁴³wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word. ⁴⁴‘Ye are of a father—the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar—also his father.

⁴⁵‘And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

⁴⁶Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me? ⁴⁷he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.’