“They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them,“If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.”
John 8:39 (WEB)
Context Reading
37I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. 38I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.” 39They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them,“If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this. 41You do the works of your father.”They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”