John 8:39-44 ▼

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.

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.

41 |You are doing the deeds of your father.| They said to Him, |We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God.|

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.

43 |Why do you not understand what I am saying? [It is] because you cannot hear My word.

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.