41 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. ^vWe have one Father—even God.”

44 You are of ^zyour father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a ^amurderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and ^bthe father of lies.