John 8:33-53

33“We are descendants of Abraham,” they answered him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”

34Jesus responded, “Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

35A slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever.

36So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.

37I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place among you.

38I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father; so then, you do what you have heard from your father.”

39“Our father is Abraham,” they replied. “If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.

40But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

41You’re doing what your father does.” “We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father — God.”

42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on my own, but he sent me.

43Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to my word.

44You are of your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

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

46Who among you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?

47The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

48The Jews responded to him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you’re a Samaritan and have a demon?”

49“I do not have a demon,” Jesus answered. “On the contrary, I honor my Father and you dishonor me.

50I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it and judges.

51Truly I tell you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”

52Then the Jews said, “Now we know you have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’

53Are you greater than our father Abraham who died? And the prophets died. Who do you claim to be?”