The Life of Jesus

They answered, and saide vnto him, Abraham is our father. Iesus said vnto them, If ye were Abrahams children, ye woulde doe the workes of Abraham.

But nowe ye goe about to kill mee, a man that haue told you the trueth, which I haue heard of God: this did not Abraham.

Ye do the workes of your father. Then said they to him, We are not borne of fornication: we haue one Father, which is God.

Therefore Iesus sayde vnto them, If God were your Father, then woulde ye loue mee: for I proceeded foorth, and came from God, neither came I of my selfe, but he sent me.

Why doe ye not vnderstande my talke? because ye cannot heare my worde.

Ye are of your father the deuill, and the lustes of your father ye will doe: hee hath bene a murtherer from the beginning, and abode not in the trueth, because there is no trueth in him. When hee speaketh a lie, then speaketh hee of his owne: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

And because I tell you the trueth, yee beleeue me not.

Which of you can rebuke me of sinne? and if I say the trueth, why do ye not beleeue me?

He that is of God, heareth Gods wordes: yee therefore heare them not, because ye are not of God.

Then answered the Iewes, and said vnto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritane, and hast a deuil?

Iesus answered, I haue not a deuil, but I honour my Father, and ye haue dishonoured me.

And I seeke not mine owne praise: but there is one that seeketh it, and iudgeth.

Verely, verely I say vnto you, If a man keepe my word, he shall neuer see death.

Then said the Iewes to him, Now know we that thou hast a deuill. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets: and thou sayest, If a man keepe my worde, he shall neuer taste of death.

Art thou greater then our father Abraham, which is dead? and the Prophets are dead: whome makest thou thy selfe?

Iesus answered, If I honour my selfe, mine honour is nothing worth: it is my Father that honoureth me, whome ye say, that hee is your God.

Yet ye haue not knowen him: but I knowe him, and if I should say I know him not, I should be a liar like vnto you: but I knowe him, and keepe his worde.

Your father Abraham reioyced to see my day, and he sawe it, and was glad.

Then sayd ye Iewes vnto him, Thou art not yet fiftie yeere olde, and hast thou seene Abraham?

Iesus sayd vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, before Abraham was, I am.

Then tooke they vp stones, to cast at him, but Iesus hid himselfe, and went out of the Temple: And hee passed through the middes of them, and so went his way.

And as Iesus passed by, he sawe a man which was blinde from his birth.

And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sinne, this man, or his parents, that he was borne blinde?

Iesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the workes of God should be shewed on him.

I must worke the workes of him that sent me, while it is day: the night commeth when no man can worke.