March 20, 2013, Gospel

8:31	Therefore, Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him: “If you will abide in my word, you will truly be my disciples.
8:32	And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”
8:33	They answered him: “We are the offspring of Abraham, and we have never been a slave to anyone. How can you say, ‘You shall be set free?’ ”
8:34	Jesus answered them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
8:35	Now the slave does not abide in the house for eternity. Yet the Son does abide in eternity.
8:36	Therefore, if the Son has set you free, then you will truly be free.
8:37	I know that you are sons of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word has not taken hold in you.
8:38	I speak what I have seen with my Father. And you do what you have seen with your father.”
8:39	They responded and said to him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them: “If you are the sons of Abraham, then do the works of Abraham.
8:40	But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
8:41	You do the works of your father.” Therefore, they said to him: “We were not born out of fornication. We have one father: God.”
8:42	Then Jesus said to them: “If God were your father, certainly you would love me. For I proceeded and came from God. For I did not come from myself, but he sent me.

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