John Chapter 8
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8:40. But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not.
8:41. You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.
8:42. Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. For from God I proceeded and came. For I came not of myself: but he sent me.
8:43. Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.
8:44. You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
8:45. But if I say the truth, you believe me not.
8:46. Which of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe me:
8:47. He that is of God heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God.
8:48. The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil?
8:49. Jesus answered: I have not a devil: but I honour my Father. And you have dishonoured me.
8:50. But I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
8:51. Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever.
8:52. The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets: and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shall not taste death for ever.
8:53. Art thou greater than our father Abraham who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself?
8:54. Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifieth me, of whom you say that he is your God.
8:55. And you have not known him: but I know him. And if I shall say that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him and do keep his word.
8:56. Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it and was glad.
8:57. The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old. And hast thou seen Abraham?
8:58. Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I AM.
8:59. They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.