⁸ Therefore produce fruit^(A) consistent with repentance. And don’t start saying to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our father,”^(B) for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

³⁰ ‘ “No, father Abraham,” he said. “But if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.”

⁹ ‘Today salvation^(A) has come to this house,’ Jesus told him, ‘because he too is a son of Abraham.^(B)

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)

⁵³ Are you greater than our father Abraham who died? And the prophets died. Who do you claim to be? ’