21. therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'
22. The Jews, therefore, said, `Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?'
23. and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;
24. I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.'
25. They said, therefore, to him, `Thou--who art thou?' and Jesus said to them, `Even what I did speak of to you at the beginning;
26. many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I--what things I heard from Him--these I say to the world.'
27. They knew not that of the Father he spake to them;
28. Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am [he]; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;
29. and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.'
30. As he is speaking these things, many believed in him;
31. Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,
32. and the truth shall make you free.'
33. They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say--Ye shall become free?'
34. Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,
35. and the servant doth not remain in the house--to the age, the son doth remain--to the age;
36. if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.
37. `I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;
38. I--that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father--ye do.'
39. They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;