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?