³⁸ But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, ^(A)‘This is the heir. ^(B)Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’

⁴ and ^(A)plotted to take Jesus by ^[a]trickery and kill Him.

¹⁸ Therefore the Jews ^(A)sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, ^(B)making Himself equal with God.

^19 (A)Did not Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? ^(B)Why do you seek to kill Me?”

Could This Be the Christ?

²⁵ Now some of them from Jerusalem said, “Is this not He whom they seek to ^(A)kill?

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.

^40 (A)But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth ^(B)which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.