31 [a]Then said Jesus to the Jews which believed in him, If ye continue in my word, ye are verily my disciples,

32 And shall know the truth, and the truth shall [b]make you free.

33 [c]They answered him, We be [d]Abraham’s seed, and were never bond to any man: why sayest thou then, Ye shall be made free?

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:31 The true disciples of Christ continue in his doctrine, that profiting more and more in the knowledge of the truth, they may be delivered from the most grievous burden of sin, into the true liberty of righteousness and life.
  2. John 8:32 From the slavery of sin.
  3. John 8:33 Some of the multitude, not they that believed: for this is not the speech of men that consent unto him but of men that are against him.
  4. John 8:33 Born and begotten of Abraham.

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