I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me, because you will not accept my teaching.

The wicked plot against good people and glare at them with hate.

Wicked people watch good people and try to kill them;

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

At that time the son who was born in the usual way persecuted the one who was born because of God's Spirit; and it is the same now.

We must not be like Cain; he belonged to the Evil One and murdered his own brother Abel. Why did Cain murder him? Because the things he himself did were wrong, and the things his brother did were right.

We know that we have left death and come over into life; we know it because we love others. Those who do not love are still under the power of death.

With his tail he dragged a third of the stars out of the sky and threw them down to the earth. He stood in front of the woman, in order to eat her child as soon as it was born.

And so be glad, you heavens, and all you that live there! But how terrible for the earth and the sea! For the Devil has come down to you, and he is filled with rage, because he knows that he has only a little time left."

When the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he began to pursue the woman who had given birth to the boy.

The dragon was furious with the woman and went off to fight against the rest of her descendants, all those who obey God's commandments and are faithful to the truth revealed by Jesus.

I have much to say about you, much to condemn you for. The one who sent me, however, is truthful, and I tell the world only what I have heard from him."

I talk about what my Father has shown me, but you do what your father has told you."

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see the time of my coming; he saw it and was glad."

He is also the father of those who are circumcised, that is, of those who, in addition to being circumcised, also live the same life of faith that our father Abraham lived before he was circumcised.