John 8:33-59 ▼

33 They aunswered hym: We be Abrahams seede, and were neuer bonde to any man: howe sayest thou then, ye shalbe made free?

34 Iesus aunswered them: Ueryly, veryly I say vnto you, that whosoeuer comitteth sinne, is the seruaunt of sinne.

35 And the seruaut abideth not in ye house for euer: but the sonne abydeth euer.

36 Yf the sonne therefore shall make you free, then are ye free in deede.

37 I know that ye are Abrahams seede, but ye seke meanes to kyll me, because my worde hath no place in you.

38 I speake that whiche I haue seene with my father: and ye do that whiche ye haue seene with your father.

39 They aunswered, and saide vnto him: Abraham is our father. Iesus saith vnto them: Yf ye were Abrahams childre, ye woulde do the workes of Abraham.

40 But now ye go about to kyll me, a ma that hath tolde you the trueth, which I haue heard of god: this did not Abraha.

41 Ye do the deedes of your father. Then said they to him: We be not borne of fornication, we haue one father, euen God.

42 Iesus saide vnto them: Yf God were your father, truely ye woulde loue me: For I proceaded foorth, and came from God: neither came I of my selfe, but he sent me.

43 Why do ye not knowe my speache? euen because ye cannot heare my word.

44 Ye are of your father the deuyll, and the lustes of your father wyll ye do. He was a murtherer from the begynnyng, and abode not in the trueth: because there is no trueth in hym. When he speaketh a lye, he speaketh of his owne: For he is a lyer, and the father of the same thyng.

45 And because I tel you the trueth, therfore ye beleue me not.

46 Which of you rebuketh me of sinne? Yf I say the trueth, why do not ye beleue me?

47 He that is of god, heareth gods wordes. Ye therfore heare the not, because ye are not of God.

48 Then aunswered the Iewes, & saide vnto hym: Say we not well that thou art a Samaritane, and hast the deuyl?

49 Iesus aunswered, I haue not the deuyll: but I honour my father, and ye haue dishonoured me.

50 I seke not myne owne praise, there is one that seketh, and iudgeth.

51 Ueryly veryly I saye vnto you, yf a man kepe my saying, he shall neuer see death.

52 Then sayde the Iewes vnto hym: Now know we that thou hast ye deuyll. Abraham is dead, & the prophetes: and thou sayest, yf a man kepe my saying, he shall neuer taste of death.

53 Art thou greater the our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophetes are dead: whom makest thou thy selfe?

54 Iesus aunswered: Yf I honour my selfe, mine honour is nothing. It is my father that honoureth me, which ye say is your God:

55 And yet ye haue not knowen him, but I knowe hym: And if I say I knowe hym not, I shalbe a lyer lyke vnto you. But I knowe hym, & kepe his saying.

56 Your father Abraham was glad to see my day: and he saw it, and reioyced.

57 Then sayde the Iewes vnto hym: Thou art not yet fiftie yeres olde, & hast thou seene Abraham.

58 Iesus sayde vnto them: Ueryly, veryly I saye vnto you, before Abraham was, I am.

59 Then toke they vp stones to caste at hym: but Iesus hyd hym selfe, and went out of the temple.