John 8:30-56

³⁰As he spoke these things many believed on him.

³¹Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;

³²and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

³³They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never been under bondage to any one; how sayest thou, Ye shall become free?

³⁴Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Every one that practises sin is the bondman of sin.

³⁵Now the bondman abides not in the house for ever: the son abides for ever.

³⁶If therefore the Son shall set you free, ye shall be really free.

³⁷I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word has no entrance in you.

³⁸I speak what I have seen with my Father, and ye then do what ye have seen with your father.

³⁹They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham;

⁴⁰but now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.

⁴¹Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.

⁴²Jesus said to them, If God were your father ye would have loved me, for I came forth from God and am come from him; for neither am I come of myself, but he has sent me.

⁴³Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.

⁴⁴Ye are of the devil, as your father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father:

⁴⁵and because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me.

⁴⁶Which of you convinces me of sin? If I speak truth, why do ye not believe me?

⁴⁷He that is of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear them not, because ye are not of God.

⁴⁸The Jews answered and said to him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a demon?

⁴⁹Jesus answered, I have not a demon; but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me.

⁵⁰But I do not seek my own glory: there is he that seeks and judges.

⁵¹Verily, verily, I say unto you, If any one shall keep my word, he shall never see death.

⁵²The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham has died, and the prophets, and thou sayest, If any one keep my word, he shall never taste death.

⁵³Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who has died? and the prophets have died: whom makest thou thyself?

⁵⁴Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom ye say, He is our God.

⁵⁵And ye know him not; but I know him; and if I said, I know him not, I should be like you, a liar. But I know him, and I keep his word.

⁵⁶Your father Abraham exulted in that he should see my day, and he saw and rejoiced.