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- To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.
- Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
- They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?"
- Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
- Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.
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- So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
- I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are ready to kill me, because you have no room for my word.
- I am telling you what I have seen in the Father's presence, and you do what you have heard from your father."
- "Abraham is our father," they answered. "If you were Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then you would do the things Abraham did.
- As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.
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- You are doing the things your own father does." "We are not illegitimate children," they protested. "The only Father we have is God himself."
- Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me.
- Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.
- You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
- Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!
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- Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me?
- He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."
- The Jews answered him, "Aren't we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?"
- "I am not possessed by a demon," said Jesus, "but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.
- I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.
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- I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."
- At this the Jews exclaimed, "Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that if anyone keeps your word, he will never taste death.
- Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?"
- Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me.
- Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word.
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- Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad."
- "You are not yet fifty years old," the Jews said to him, "and you have seen Abraham!"
- "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"
- At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.
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