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They answered him, "Our father is Avraham." Yeshua replied, "If you are children of Avraham, then do the things Avraham did!
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As it is, you are out to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Avraham did nothing like that!
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You are doing the things your father does." "We're not illegitimate children!" they said to him. "We have only one Father -- God!"
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Yeshua replied to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me; because I came out from God; and now I have arrived here. I did not come on my own; he sent me.
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Why don't you understand what I'm saying? Because you can't bear to listen to my message.
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You belong to your father, Satan, and you want to carry out your father's desires. From the start he was a murderer, and he has never stood by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is speaking in character; because he is a liar -- indeed, the inventor of the lie!
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But as for me, because I tell the truth you don't believe me.