34. Jesus replied, ‘Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
35. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it for ever.
36. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
37. I know you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word.
38. I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father. ’
39. ‘Abraham is our father,’ they answered.‘If you were Abraham’s children,’ said Jesus, ‘then you would do what Abraham did.
40. As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.