John 8:36-46

Listen to John 8:36-46

36 "So if the Son ¹makes you free, you will be free indeed.

37 "I know that you are ²Abraham's descendants; yet ³you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.

38 "I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from ⁴your father."

39 They answered and said to Him, "Abraham is ⁵our father." Jesus said to them, "⁶If you are Abraham's children, do the deeds of Abraham.

40 "But as it is, ⁷you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has ⁸told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.

41 "You are doing the deeds of ⁹your father." They said to Him, "We were not born of fornication; ¹⁰we have one Father: God."

42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, ¹¹you would love Me, ¹²for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have ¹³not even come on My own initiative, but ¹⁴He sent Me.

43 "Why * do you not understand ¹⁵what I am saying? It is because you cannot * ¹⁶hear My word.

44 "¹⁷You are of ¹⁸your father the devil, and ¹⁹you want to do the desires of your father. ²⁰He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because ²¹there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he ²²speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

45 "But because ²³I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.