John 8:39-41

Good News Translation

³⁹ They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.”

“If you really were Abraham's children,” Jesus replied, “you would do^[a] the same things that he did. ⁴⁰ All I have ever done is to tell you the truth I heard from God, yet you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like this! ⁴¹ You are doing what your father did.”

“God himself is the only Father we have,” they answered, “and we are his true children.”