24. Thus I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
25. So they began to say to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “What I have been saying to you from the beginning.
26. I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but the one who sent me is true, and the things which I heard from him, these things I say to the world.”
27. (They did not know that he was speaking to them about the Father.)
28. Then Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will recognize that I am he, and I do nothing from myself, but just as the Father taught me, I say these things.
29. And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
30. While he was saying these things, many believed in him.
31. Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,
32. and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33. They replied to him, “We are descendants of Abraham and have not been enslaved to anyone at any time. How do you say, ‘You will become free’?”
34. Jesus replied to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.