39. The people said to Jesus, “Abraham is our father!”Jesus replied, “If you were Abraham's children, you would do what Abraham did.
40. Instead, you want to kill me for telling you the truth that God gave me. Abraham never did anything like that.
41. But you are doing exactly what your father does.”“Don't accuse us of having someone else as our father!” they said. “We just have one father, and he is God.”
42. Jesus answered:If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and only from him. He sent me. I did not come on my own.
43. Why can't you understand what I am talking about? Can't you stand to hear what I am saying?