^{40 Ref} But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

^{41 Ref} Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

^{42 Ref} Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

^{43 Ref} Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

^{44 Ref} Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.