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’? ”
34. Jesus responded, “I assure you: Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
35. A slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever.
36. Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.
37. I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.
38. I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father; therefore, 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.
40. But 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!
41. You’re doing what your father does.” “We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father — God.”
42. Jesus 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.
43. Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to My word.
44. You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood 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 liars.
45. Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.
46. Who among you can convict Me of sin? If I tell the truth, why don’t you believe Me?