Discipleship and True Freedom

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Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

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and the truth shall make you free.'

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They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say--Ye shall become free?'

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Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

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and the servant doth not remain in the house--to the age, the son doth remain--to the age;

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if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

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`I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

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I--that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father--ye do.'

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They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

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and now, ye seek to kill me--a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

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ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have--God;'

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Jesus then said to them, `If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;

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wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.

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