^{33 Ref} They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?'

^{34 Ref} Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

^{35 Ref} and the servant doth not remain in the house -- to the age, the son doth remain -- to the age;

^{36 Ref} if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

^{37 Ref} `I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

^{38 Ref} I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.'

^{39 Ref} They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

^{40 Ref} and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

^{41 Ref} ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'