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Jesussaid to them, "IfGod were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceededforth and havecome from God, for I have not evencome on My owninitiative, but He sent Me.
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"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truthbecause there is notruth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.