33 They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant o f sin. 3 5 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. 3 6 I f the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. 37 I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. 38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. 39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, I f ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works o f Abraham. 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard o f God: this did not Abraham. 41 Ye do the deeds o f your father. Then said they to him, We be not born o f fornication; we have one Father, even God. 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I o f myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 44 Ye are o f your father the devil, and the lusts o f your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh o f his own: for he is a liar, and the father o f it. 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. 46 Which o f you convinceth me o f sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? 47 He that is o f God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not o f God. 48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? 49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me. 5 0 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. 52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste o f death. 5 3 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? 54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; o f whom ye say, that he is your God: 5 5 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. 57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. 59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out o f the temple, going through the midst o f them, and so passed by. A CHAPTER 9. nd as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works o f God should be made manifest in him. 4 I must work the works o f him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light o f the world. 6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay o f the spittle, and he anointed the eyes o f the blind man with the clay. 7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. 8 The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not
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