²⁸ Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am [he]; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;

²⁹ and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.'

³⁰ As he is speaking these things, many believed in him;

³¹ Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

³² and the truth shall make you free.'

³³ 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 Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

³⁵ and the servant doth not remain in the house -- to the age, the son doth remain -- to the age;

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

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

³⁸ 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 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 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 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 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 wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.

⁴⁴ `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.

⁴⁵ `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

⁴⁶ Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

⁴⁷ he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'

⁴⁸ The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him, `Do we not say well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?'

⁴⁹ Jesus answered, `I have not a demon, but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me;

⁵⁰ and I do not seek my own glory; there is who is seeking and is judging;

⁵¹ verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see -- to the age.'

⁵² The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death -- to the age!

⁵³ Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom dost thou make thyself?'

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, `If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me, of whom ye say that He is your God;

⁵⁵ and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

⁵⁶ Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.'

⁵⁷ The Jews, therefore, said unto him, `Thou art not yet fifty years old, and Abraham hast thou seen?'

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'

⁵⁹ they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.