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220 ″ Amen, amen I say to you; that * every one which committeth sinne, is the servant of sinne. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: the sonne abideth for ever. If therfore the Sonne make you free, you shal be free indeed. I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seeke to kil me, because my word taketh not in you. I speake that which I have seen with my Father: and you doe the things that you have seen with your Father. They answered, and said to him: Our Father is Abraham. saith to them: If you be the children of Abraham, doe the workes of Abraham. But now, you seeke to kil me, a man that have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This did not Abraham. You doe the workes of your Father. They said therfore to him: We were not borne of fornication. We have one Father, God. therfore said to them: If God were your Father: verily you would love me. For from God I proceeded, and came: for I came not of my self, but he sent me. Why doe you not know my speach? Because you can not heare my word. You are of your father the Divel, and the desires of your father you wil doe. He was a man-killer from the beginning, and he stood not in the veritie; because veritie is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his owne, because he is a lyer, and the father thereof. But because I say the veritie, you beleeve me not. Which of you shal argue me of sinne? If I say the veritie, why doe you not beleeve me? He that is of God, heareth the wordes of God. Therfore you heare not, because you are not of God. The Jewes therfore answered, and said to him, Doe not we say wel that thou art a Samaritane, and hast a Diuel? answered: I have no Diuel: but I doe honour my Father, and you have dishonoured me. But I seeke not mine owne glorie. There is that seeketh and judgeth.

Amen, amen I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shal not see death for ever. The Jewes therfore said: Now we have knowen that thou hast a Diuel. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets; and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shal not tast death for ever. Why, art thou greater then our father Abraham, who is dead? and the Prophets are dead. Whom doest thou make thy self? answered: If I doe glorifie my self, my glorie is nothing. It is my father that glorifieth me, whom you say that he is your God. And you have not knowen him, but I know him. And if I shal say that I know him not, I shal be like to you, a lyer. But I doe know him, and doe keepe his word. Abraham your father rejoyced that he might see my day: and he saw, and was glad. The Jewes therfore said to him: Thou hast not yet fiftie yeares, and hast thou seen Abraham? said to them: Amen, amen I say to you, before that Abraham was made I am. They tooke stones therfore to cast at him. But hid himself, and went out of the temple.✠ Rh