New American Standard Bible 2020

John 8:33-44

33They answered Him, “1We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, ‘You will become free’?”

34Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly I say to you, 2everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. 35Now 3the slave does not remain in the house forever; 4the son does remain forever. 36So if the Son 5sets you free, you really will be free. 37I know that you are 6Abraham’s descendants; yet 7you are seeking to kill Me, because My word 8has no place in you. 38I speak of the things which I have seen 9with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from 10your father.”

39They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is 11our father.” Jesus said to them, “12If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham. 40But as it is, 13you are seeking to kill Me, a Man who has 14told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do. 41You are doing the deeds of 15your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born as a result of sexual immorality; 16we have one Father: God.” 42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, 17you would love Me, 18for I came forth from God and am here; for I have 19not even come 20on My own, but 21 22He sent Me. 43Why do you not understand 23 24what I am saying? It is because you cannot 25listen to My word. 44 26You are of 27your father the devil, and 28you want to do the desires of your father. 29He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because 30there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells 31a lie, he 32speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of 33lies.

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Notes

1. John 8:33 Matt 3:9; Luke 3:8; John 8:37, 39 ↩
2. John 8:34 Rom 6:16; 2 Pet 2:19 ↩
3. John 8:35 Gen 21:10; Gal 4:30 ↩
4. John 8:35 Luke 15:31 ↩
5. John 8:36 John 8:32 ↩
6. John 8:37 Matt 3:9; John 8:39 ↩
7. John 8:37 John 7:1; 8:40 ↩
8. John 8:37 Or is making no headway among you ↩
9. John 8:38 Or in the presence of ↩
10. John 8:38 John 8:41, 44 ↩
11. John 8:39 Matt 3:9; John 8:37 ↩
12. John 8:39 Rom 9:7; Gal 3:7 ↩
13. John 8:40 John 7:1; 8:37 ↩
14. John 8:40 John 8:26 ↩
15. John 8:41 John 8:38, 44 ↩
16. John 8:41 Deut 32:6; Is 63:16; 64:8 ↩
17. John 8:42 1 John 5:1 ↩
18. John 8:42 John 13:3; 16:28, 30; 17:8 ↩
19. John 8:42 John 7:28 ↩
20. John 8:42 Or of Myself ↩
21. John 8:42 Lit that One ↩
22. John 8:42 John 3:17 ↩
23. John 8:43 Or My way of speaking ↩
24. John 8:43 John 8:33, 39, 41 ↩
25. John 8:43 John 5:25 ↩
26. John 8:44 1 John 3:8 ↩
27. John 8:44 John 8:38, 41 ↩
28. John 8:44 John 7:17 ↩
29. John 8:44 Gen 3:4; 1 John 3:8, 15 ↩
30. John 8:44 1 John 2:4 ↩
31. John 8:44 Lit the lie ↩
32. John 8:44 Matt 12:34 ↩
33. John 8:44 Lit it ↩

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