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St John 8:34-42 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

34. Jesus answered them: Amen, amen I say unto you: that whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin.

35. Now the servant abideth not in the house for ever; but the son abideth for ever.

36. If therefore the son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

37. I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

38. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the things that you have seen with your father.

39. They answered, and said to him: Abraham is our father. Jesus saith to them: If you be the children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham.

40. But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not.

41. You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.

42. Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. For from God I proceeded, and came; for I came not of myself, but he sent me:

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