John 8:38–47

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.’