44. You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
45. But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.
46. Can any of you charge me with sin? If I am telling the truth, why do you not believe me?
47. Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not listen, because you do not belong to God.”
48. The Jews answered and said to him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed?”
49. Jesus answered, “I am not possessed; I honor my Father, but you dishonor me.
50. I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it and he is the one who judges.
51. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.”
52. (So) the Jews said to him, “Now we are sure that you are possessed. Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.’
53. Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? Or the prophets, who died? Who do you make yourself out to be?”
54. Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing; but it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
55. You do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I would be like you a liar. But I do know him and I keep his word.
56. Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad.
57. So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?”
58. Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.”
59. So they picked up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid and went out of the temple area.