John 8:37-47

37 I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet ¹you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.

38 ²I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard ³from your father. ”

You Are of Your Father the Devil

39 They answered him, ⁴“Abraham is our father. ” Jesus said to them, ⁵“If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,

40 but now ⁶you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth ⁷that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

41 You are doing the works your father did. ”They said to him, ⁸“We were not born of sexual immorality. We have ⁹one Father—even God. ”

42 Jesus said to them, ¹⁰“If God were your Father, you would love me, for ¹¹I came from God and ¹²I am here. ¹³I came not of my own accord, but ¹⁴he sent me.

43 ¹⁵Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot ¹⁶bear to hear my word.

44 ¹⁷You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. ¹⁸He was a murderer from the beginning, and ¹⁹does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. ²⁰When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

46 Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

47 ²¹Whoever is of God hears the words of God. ²²The reason why you do not hear them is that ²³you are not of God. ”