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39 They answered him, |Abraham is our father!| Jesus replied, |If you are Abraham's children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham. 40 But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this! 41 You people are doing the deeds of your father.| Then they said to Jesus, |We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.| 42 Jesus replied, |If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me. 43 Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching. 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies. John 8:39-44, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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