Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin — Jesus redirects their understanding of freedom and bondage from the political to the spiritual. Sin (hamartia) itself is a form of slavery: 'whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.' The statement is ontological: sinning places one under sin's dominion. One becomes a slave to the master whose commands one obeys. True slavery, then, is not political servitude but moral and spiritual captivity. This reframes the conversation: the freedom that matters is freedom from sin's mastery.

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