John 8:39-59 ▼

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.

45 And because I say the truth, you do not believe Me.

46 Who of you convicts Me of sin? And if I speak truth, why do you not believe Me?

47 He who is of God, he hears the sayings of God; because of this you do not hear, because you are not of God.”

48 The Jews, therefore, answered and said to Him, “Do we not say well, that You are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me;

50 and I do not seek My own glory; there is [One] who is seeking and is judging;

51 truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone may keep My word, he may not see death—throughout the age.”

52 The Jews, therefore, said to Him, “Now we have known that You have a demon; Abraham died, and the prophets, and You say, If anyone may keep My word, he will not taste of death—throughout the age!

53 Are You greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died; whom do You make Yourself?”

54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who is glorifying Me, of whom you say that He is your God;

55 and you have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I will be like you—speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and I keep His word;

56 your father Abraham was glad that he might see My day; and he saw, and rejoiced.”

57 The Jews, therefore, said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?”

58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham’s coming—I AM”;

59 they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at Him, but Jesus hid Himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.