ISV(i)
33 They replied to him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, ‘You will be set free’?”
34 Jesus answered them,“Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
35 The slave does not remain in the household forever, but the son does remain forever.
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!”
37The Real Children of Abraham“I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you’ve not received what I’ve told you.
38 I declare what I’ve seen in my Father’s presence, and you’re doing what you’ve heard from your father.”
39 They replied to him, “Our father is Abraham!”
Jesus told them,“If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing what Abraham did.
40 But now you’re trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would’nt have done that.
41 You are doing your father’s actions.”
They told him, “We’re not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself.”
42 Jesus told them,“If God were your Father, you would’ve loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven’t come on my own accord, but he sent me.
43 Why don’t you understand what I’ve said? It’s because you can’t listen to my words.
44 You belong to your father the devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
34 Jesus answered them,
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39 They replied to him, “Our father is Abraham!”
Jesus told them,
They told him, “We’re not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself.”
42 Jesus told them,