^{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;'

^{42 Ref} Jesus then said to them, `If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;

^{43 Ref} wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.

^{44 Ref} `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.