John 8:39-44 ▼

39 Our father is Abraham!” they replied. “If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.

40 But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

41 You’re doing what your father does.|” We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father—God.”

42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

43 Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to My word.

44 You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.