Yet ye seek to kill me (αλλα ζητειτε με αποκτεινα). As at the recent feast (7:20,25,30,32; 8:20). Some of these very professed bel…

I know. I admit that you are the descendants of Abraham. Jesus did not wish to call that in question, but he sought to show them that they…

I know that you are Abraham’s seed.—He uses the word which they had used in John 8:33, acknowledging their merely physica…

And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said to him, Do you believe on the Son of God? He …

St. Augustine of Hippo: The Jews had asserted they were free because they were Abraham’s seed. Our Lord replies, I know that…

The contrast between the attitude of Abraham and that of his self-styled descendants was proof that they were falsely claiming him as their spiritu…

I know that you are Abraham’s seed. I explain this as said by way of concession. Yet at the same time he ridicules their folly in glorying…

I know that you are Abraham's seed
In answer to the other part of the Jews' objection to Christ, and in favour of th…

Our Lord opposed the proud and vain confidence of these Jews, showing that their descent from Abraham could not profit those whose spirit was contr…

1. After showing the remedy for escaping from the darkne , Christ now demonstrates its effectivene . He first explains the remedy's power an…