John 8:38-49

³⁸I talk about what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

³⁹They answered, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus told them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham,

⁴⁰but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

⁴¹You do the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We weren’t born of fornication. We have one Father — God.”

⁴²Jesus said, “If God were your Father, you would sincerely love me, for I came from God, and now am here. I haven’t come of my own initiative, but He sent me.

⁴³Why don’t you understand what I say? It’s because you can’t accept my words.

⁴⁴You are of your father, the Devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar, and the father of lies.

⁴⁵Because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.

⁴⁶Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why don’t you believe me?

⁴⁷Whoever is from God hears God’s words. The reason you don’t hear them is that you aren’t from God.”

⁴⁸The Jews answered and asked Him, “Aren’t we right in saying that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?”

⁴⁹Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.