41. “You do the works of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of whoring, we have one Father: Elohim.”
42. יהושע said to them, “If Elohim were your Father, you would love Me, for I came forth from Elohim, and am here. For I have not come of Myself, but He sent Me.
43. “Why do you not know what I say? Because you are unable to hear My Word.
44. “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.
45. “And because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.
46. “Who of you proves Me wrong concerning sin? And if I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?
47. “He who is of Elohim hears the Words of Elohim, therefore you do not hear because you are not of Elohim.”
48. The Yehuḏim answered and said to Him, “Do we not say well that You are a Shomeronite and have a demon?”
49. יהושע answered, “I do not have a demon, but I value My Father, and you do not value Me.
50. “And I do not seek My own esteem, there is One who is seeking and is judging.
51. “Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone guards My Word he shall never see death at all.”
52. The Yehuḏim said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon! Aḇraham died, and the prophets. And You say, ‘If anyone guards My Word he shall never taste death at all.’
53. “Are You greater than our father Aḇraham, who died? And the prophets died. Whom do You make Yourself?”
54. יהושע answered, “If I esteem Myself, My esteem is none at all. It is My Father who esteems Me, of whom you say that He is your Elohim.
55. “And you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be like you, a liar. But I do know Him and I guard His Word.
56. “Your father Aḇraham was glad that he should see My day, and he saw it and did rejoice.”
57. The Yehuḏim, therefore, said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Aḇraham?”