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  "id": "john-8-39",
  "source": "John",
  "pericope": "Children of the Devil",
  "chapter": 8,
  "verse_start": 39,
  "verse_end": 47,
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      "v": 39,
      "text": "They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.”"
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      "v": 39,
      "text": "Jesus said to them,"
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      "v": 39,
      "text": "“If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.",
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      "v": 40,
      "text": "But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.",
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      "v": 41,
      "text": "You do the works of your father.”",
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      "v": 41,
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      "v": 41,
      "text": "They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”"
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      "v": 42,
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      "v": 42,
      "text": "Therefore Jesus said to them,"
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      "v": 42,
      "text": "“If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.",
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      "v": 43,
      "text": "Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.",
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      "v": 44,
      "text": "You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.",
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      "v": 45,
      "text": "But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.",
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      "v": 46,
      "text": "Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?",
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      "v": 47,
      "text": "He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”",
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      "v": 39,
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      "v": 39,
      "text": "They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them,"
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      "v": 39,
      "text": "If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.",
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      "v": 40,
      "text": "But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.",
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      "v": 41,
      "text": "Ye do the deeds of your father.",
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      "v": 41,
      "text": "Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God."
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      "v": 42,
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    {
      "v": 42,
      "text": "Jesus said unto them,"
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      "v": 42,
      "text": "If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.",
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      "v": 43,
      "text": "Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.",
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      "v": 44,
      "text": "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 45,
      "text": "And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 46,
      "text": "Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 47,
      "text": "He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.",
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  "aland_number": 246,
  "epoch": 4,
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  "reference": "John 8:39–47",
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