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John 8:36-55 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

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;

40. and now, ye seek to kill me--a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

41. ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have--God;'

42. Jesus then said to them, `If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;

43. wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.

44. `Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a manslayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

45. `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

46. Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

47. he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'

48. The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him, `Do we not say well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?'

49. Jesus answered, `I have not a demon, but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me;

50. and I do not seek my own glory; there is who is seeking and is judging;

51. verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see--to the age.'

52. The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death--to the age!

53. Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom dost thou make thyself?'

54. Jesus answered, `If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me, of whom ye say that He is your God;

55. and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you--speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

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