John 8:22-34

²²Therefore the Jews were saying, “Surely He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”

²³Jesus was saying to them, “You are from below. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

²⁴Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins, because if you don’t believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

²⁵Then they asked Him, “Who are You?” Jesus told them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

²⁶I have many things to say and judge about you, but He who sent me is true, and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”

²⁷They didn’t realize that He had been speaking to them about the Father.

²⁸So, Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father taught me.

²⁹He who sent me is with me. He hasn’t left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.”

³⁰As Jesus spoke, many came to believe in Him.

³¹Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you continue in my words, you are truly my disciples,

³²and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

³³They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been slaves to anyone. How can you say that we’ll be set free?”

³⁴Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I tell you, whoever sins is a slave of sin.