Abraham’s Seed and Satan’s

37 “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but (A)you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. 38 (B)I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have [a]seen with your father.”

39 They answered and said to Him, (C)“Abraham is our father.”

Jesus said to them, (D)“If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:38 NU heard from

37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me,(A) because you have no room for my word. 38 I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence,(B) and you are doing what you have heard from your father.[a](C)

39 “Abraham is our father,” they answered.

“If you were Abraham’s children,”(D) said Jesus, “then you would[b] do what Abraham did.

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:38 Or presence. Therefore do what you have heard from the Father.
  2. John 8:39 Some early manuscripts “If you are Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then