John 8:39-47

Christian Standard Bible

³⁹ “Our father is Abraham,” they replied.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.^{(A) 40} But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth^(B) that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. ⁴¹ You’re doing what your father does.”^(C)

“We weren’t born^(D) of sexual immorality,”^(E) they said. “We have one Father—God.”^(F)

⁴² Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me,^(G) because I came from God^(H) and I am here. For I didn’t come on my own, but he sent me. ⁴³ Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to^[a] my word.^{(I) 44} You are of your father the devil,^(J) and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer^(K) from the beginning^(L) and does not stand in the truth,^(M) 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 lies. ⁴⁵ Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Who among you can convict me of sin?^(N) If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? ⁴⁷ The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”