John 8:36 "So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
John 8:37 "I know that you are Abraham's descendants; yet you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.
John 8:38 "I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father."
John 8:39 ¶ They answered and said to Him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus *said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, do the deeds of Abraham.
John 8:40 "But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.
John 8:41 "You are doing the deeds of your father." They said to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God."
John 8:42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.
John 8:43 "Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word.
John 8:44 "You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:47 "He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God."
John 8:48 ¶ The Jews answered and said to Him, "Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?"
John 8:49 Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.
John 8:50 "But I do not seek My glory; there is One who seeks and judges.
John 8:52 The Jews said to Him, "Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, 'If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste of death.'
John 8:53 "Surely You are not greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died too; whom do You make Yourself out to be?"
John 8:54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, 'He is our God';
John 8:55 and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.
John 8:56 "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad."
John 8:57 So the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?"
John 8:58 Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am."