⁴³ Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to^[a] My word.^{(A) 44} You are of your father the Devil,^(B) and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer^(C) from the beginning^(D) and has not stood in the truth,^(E) because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,^[b] because he is a liar and the father of liars.^{[c] 45} Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.