JOHN 8 33-47

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33 - The leaders said to him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it you say, ‘You will become free’?”

     34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, I tell you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. 35 And a slave doesn’t remain in the house forever, but the son remains forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you’ll be free indeed! 37 I know you are offspring of Abraham. Yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. 38 I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

     39 They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said, “If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, 40 but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

     41 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of fornication! We have one Father, God.” 42 Jesus answered, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and here I am. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

     43 And why do you not understand what I say? It’s because you cannot bear to hear my message. 44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires.” {Now the desire is still “I will ascend” and the ancient dream of Total World Domination. One POWER - filled by him and his.} “He was a murderer from the beginning” {of creation, God having SO patiently waited for the first, bound-TO-occur rebel thought to mature into full blown seditious sentiment, ripe for acting} “and he does not stand in the truth, because there’s no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of himself [idios - private, personal, peculiar, (his) own] “for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. 46 Which one of you can convict me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe me? 47 Whoever is of God, hears his words. The reason why you are not hearing his message is because you are not being [eimi -to be present, exist, happen, to be, being] of God.”

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Tomorrows verses - John 8:48-59

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.