John 8:39-44 ▼

39 They answered and said to Him, “Our father is Abraham”; Jesus says to them, “If you were children of Abraham, the works of Abraham you were doing;

40 and now, you seek to kill Me—a Man who has spoken to you the truth I heard from God; Abraham did not do this;

41 you do the works of your father.” They said, therefore, to Him, “We have not been born of whoredom; we have one Father—God”;

42 Jesus then said to them, “If God were your father, you were loving Me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of Myself, but He sent Me;

43 why do you not know My speech? Because you are not able to hear My word.

44 You are of a father—the Devil, and the desires of your father you will to do; he was a manslayer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, he speaks of his own, because he is a liar—also his father.