John 8:31-59

³¹Then saide Iesus to the Iewes which beleeued in him, If ye continue in my worde, ye are verely my disciples,

³²And shall know the trueth, and the trueth shall make you free.

³³They answered him, Wee be Abrahams seede, and were neuer bonde to any man: why sayest thou then, Ye shalbe made free?

³⁴Iesus answered them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, that whosoeuer committeth sinne, is the seruant of sinne.

³⁵And the seruant abideth not in the house for euer: but the Sonne abideth for euer.

³⁶If that Sonne therefore shall make you free, ye shalbe free in deede.

³⁷I know that ye are Abrahams seede, but yee seeke to kill mee, because my worde hath no place in you.

³⁸I speake that which I haue seene with my Father: and ye doe that which ye haue seene with your father.

³⁹They answered, and saide vnto him, Abraham is our father. Iesus said vnto them, If ye were Abrahams children, ye woulde doe the workes of Abraham.

⁴⁰But nowe ye goe about to kill mee, a man that haue told you the trueth, which I haue heard of God: this did not Abraham.

⁴¹Ye do the workes of your father. Then said they to him, We are not borne of fornication: we haue one Father, which is God.

⁴²Therefore Iesus sayde vnto them, If God were your Father, then woulde ye loue mee: for I proceeded foorth, and came from God, neither came I of my selfe, but he sent me.

⁴³Why doe ye not vnderstande my talke? because ye cannot heare my worde.

⁴⁴Ye are of your father the deuill, and the lustes of your father ye will doe: hee hath bene a murtherer from the beginning, and abode not in the trueth, because there is no trueth in him. When hee speaketh a lie, then speaketh hee of his owne: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

⁴⁵And because I tell you the trueth, yee beleeue me not.

⁴⁶Which of you can rebuke me of sinne? and if I say the trueth, why do ye not beleeue me?

⁴⁷He that is of God, heareth Gods wordes: yee therefore heare them not, because ye are not of God.

⁴⁸Then answered the Iewes, and said vnto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritane, and hast a deuil?

⁴⁹Iesus answered, I haue not a deuil, but I honour my Father, and ye haue dishonoured me.

⁵⁰And I seeke not mine owne praise: but there is one that seeketh it, and iudgeth.

⁵¹Verely, verely I say vnto you, If a man keepe my word, he shall neuer see death.

⁵²Then said the Iewes to him, Now know we that thou hast a deuill. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets: and thou sayest, If a man keepe my worde, he shall neuer taste of death.

⁵³Art thou greater then our father Abraham, which is dead? and the Prophets are dead: whome makest thou thy selfe?

⁵⁴Iesus answered, If I honour my selfe, mine honour is nothing worth: it is my Father that honoureth me, whome ye say, that hee is your God.

⁵⁵Yet ye haue not knowen him: but I knowe him, and if I should say I know him not, I should be a liar like vnto you: but I knowe him, and keepe his worde.

⁵⁶Your father Abraham reioyced to see my day, and he sawe it, and was glad.

⁵⁷Then sayd ye Iewes vnto him, Thou art not yet fiftie yeere olde, and hast thou seene Abraham?

⁵⁸Iesus sayd vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, before Abraham was, I am.

⁵⁹Then tooke they vp stones, to cast at him, but Iesus hid himselfe, and went out of the Temple: And hee passed through the middes of them, and so went his way.