John 8:15-39

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¹⁵^(A)You judge according to the flesh; ^(B)I judge no one. ¹⁶Yet even if I do judge, ^(C)my judgment is true, for ^(D)it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father^[a] who sent me. ¹⁷^(E)In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. ¹⁸I am the one who bears witness about myself, and ^(F)the Father who sent me bears witness about me.” ¹⁹They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, ^(G)“You know neither me nor my Father. ^(H)If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” ²⁰These words he spoke in ^(I)the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but ^(J)no one arrested him, because ^(K)his hour had not yet come.

²¹So he said to them again, ^(L)“I am going away, and ^(M)you will seek me, and ^(N)you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” ²²So the Jews said, ^(O)“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” ²³He said to them, ^(P)“You are from below; I am from above. ^(Q)You are of this world; ^(R)I am not of this world. ²⁴I told you that you ^(S)would die in your sins, for ^(T)unless you believe that ^(U)I am he you will die in your sins.” ²⁵So they said to him, ^(V)“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. ²⁶I have much to say about you and much to judge, but ^(W)he who sent me is true, and I declare ^(X)to the world ^(Y)what I have heard from him.” ²⁷They did not understand that ^(Z)he had been speaking to them about the Father. ²⁸So Jesus said to them, “When you have ^(AA)lifted up the Son of Man, ^(AB)then you will know that ^(AC)I am he, and that ^(AD)I do nothing on my own authority, but ^(AE)speak just as the Father taught me. ²⁹And ^(AF)he who sent me is with me. ^(AG)He has not left me alone, for ^(AH)I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” ³⁰As he was saying these things, ^(AI)many believed in him.

The Truth Will Set You Free

³¹So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, ^(AJ)“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³²and you will ^(AK)know the truth, and the truth ^(AL)will set you free.” ³³They answered him, ^(AM)“We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”

³⁴Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(AN)everyone who practices sin is a slave^[b] to sin. ³⁵^(AO)The slave does not remain in the house forever; ^(AP)the son remains forever. ³⁶So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. ³⁷I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet ^(AQ)you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. ³⁸^(AR)I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard ^(AS)from your father.”

You Are of Your Father the Devil

³⁹They answered him, ^(AT)“Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, ^(AU)“If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,

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