³³ ‘We are descendants^[a] of Abraham,’^(A) they answered him, ‘and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, “You will become free”? ’

³⁹ ‘Our father is Abraham,’ they replied.

‘If you were Abraham’s children,’ Jesus told them, ‘you would do what Abraham did.^(A)

²³ But the one by the slave was born as a result of the flesh, while the one by the free woman was born through promise.