^{33 Ref} They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

^{34 Ref} And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

^{35 Ref} Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

^{36 Ref} If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.

^{37 Ref} I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.

^{38 Ref} I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.

^{39 Ref} In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.