Jn 8:41-47

41You are doing the works of your father!” [So] they said to him, “We are not illegitimate. We have one Father, God.”^y 42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and am here; I did not come on my own, but he sent me.^z 43Why do you not understand what I am saying? Because you cannot bear to hear my word. 44You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.^a 45But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me. 46Can any of you charge me with sin? If I am telling the truth, why do you not believe me?^b 47Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not listen, because you do not belong to God.”^c