Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³⁹ They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father.

Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the deeds of Abraham.  ⁴⁰ But now you are going about to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I have heard from God. This Abraham did not do. ⁴¹ You do the deeds of your father.

Then they said to him, We were not born of fornication. We have one Father, who is God.

⁴² Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, then you would love me. For I proceeded forth and come from God. Neither did I come of myself, but he sent me. ⁴³ Why do you not know my speech? Even because you cannot abide the hearing of my words. ⁴⁴ You are of your father, the devil, and your will is to follow the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own nature. For he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁴⁵ And because I tell you the truth, therefore you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which of you can rebuke me of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷ He who is of God hears God’s words. You therefore do not hear them, because you are not of God.