John 8:40-57

⁴⁰Ye do the dedes of youre father. Then sayde they vnto him: we were not borne of fornicacion. We have one father which is God.

⁴¹Iesus sayde vnto them: yf God were youre father then wolde ye love me. For I proceaded forthe and come from God. Nether came I of my selfe but he sent me.

⁴²Why do ye not knowe my speache? even because ye cannot abyde the hearynge of my wordes.

⁴³Ye are of youre father the devyll and the lustes of youre father ye will folowe.

⁴⁴He was a murtherer from the beginnynge and aboode not in the trueth because ther is no trueth in him. When he speaketh a lye then speaketh he of his awne. For he is a lyar and the father therof.

⁴⁵And because I tell you the trueth therfore ye beleve me not.

⁴⁶Which of you can rebuke me of synne? If I saye the trueth why do not ye beleve me?

⁴⁷He that is of God heareth goddes wordes Ye therfore heare them not because ye are not of God.

⁴⁸Then answered the Iewes and sayde vnto him: Saye we not well that thou arte a Samaritane and hast the devyll?

⁴⁹Iesus answered: I have not the devyll: but I honour my father and ye have dishonoured me.

⁵⁰I seke not myne awne prayse: but ther is one that seketh and iudgeth.

⁵¹Verely verely I saye vnto you yf a man kepe my sayinges he shall never se deeth.

⁵²Then sayde the Iewes to him: Now knowe we that thou hast the devyll. Abraham is deed and also the Prophetes: and yet thou sayest yf a man kepe my sayinge he shall never tast of deeth.

⁵³Arte thou greater then oure father Abraham which is deed? and the Prophetes are deed. Whome makest thou thy selfe?

⁵⁴Iesus answered: Yf I honoure my selfe myne honoure is nothinge worth. It is my father that honoureth me which ye saye is youre God

⁵⁵and ye have not knowen him: but I knowe him. And yf I shuld saye I knowe him not I shuld be a lyar lyke vnto you. But I knowe him and kepe his sayinge.

⁵⁶Youre father Abraham was glad to se my daye and he sawe it and reioysed.

⁵⁷Then sayde the Iewes vnto him: thou arte not yet.l. yere olde and hast thou sene Abraham?