35. A slave does not stay with a family forever, but a son belongs to the family forever.
36. So if the Son makes you free, then you will be truly free.
37. I know you are Abraham’s children. But you want to kill me because you don’t accept my teaching.
38. I am telling you what my Father has shown me. But you do what your father has told you.”
39. They answered, “Our father is Abraham.”Jesus said, “If you were really Abraham’s children, you would do the things that Abraham did.
40. I am a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. But you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like that.
41. So you are doing the things that your own father did.”But they said, “We are not like children who never knew who their father was. God is our Father. He is the only Father we have.”
42. Jesus said to them, “If God were really your Father, you would love me. I came from God and now I am here. I did not come by my own authority. God sent me.
43. You don’t understand what I say because you cannot accept my teaching.
44. Your father is the devil. You belong to him and want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning. He was against the truth, for there is no truth in him. He is a liar, and he is like the lies he tells. He is the father of lies.
45. But I speak the truth. That is why you don’t believe me.