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39 They answered and said to him: Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them: If you were the children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now you seek to kill me, a man that has spoken to you the truth, which I have heard from God; this Abraham did not. 41 You do the works of your father. They said to him: We were not born of lewdness; we have one father, God. 42 Jesus said to them: If God were your father, you would love me; for I came forth from God and have come hither; nor, indeed, did I come of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do you not know what I say? Because you can not understand my words. 44 You are of your father, the devil; and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the be ginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks that which is false, he speaks from what is his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:39-44, Anderson New Testament. Public domain.
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