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.
46. Can any of you prove that I am guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?
47. He who belongs to God accepts what God says. But you don’t accept what God says, because you don’t belong to God.”