Our father is Abraham (ο πατηρ ημων Αβρααμ εστιν). They saw the implication and tried to counter it by repeating their claim in ve…

Abraham is our father. We are descended from Abraham. Of this the Jews boasted much, as being descended from such an illustrious man. See …

They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father.—They feel the meaning which has not yet been expre ed , and claim the descent from A…

I know that you are Abraham's seed; yet you seek to kill me, because my word does not have free course in you. I speak the things which I have …

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

Jesus insisted that the Jews were not the true children of Abraham. Their hatred of Jesus, refusal to listen to truth, and lack of simple faith bel…

Abraham is our father. This altercation shows plainly enough how haughtily and fiercely they despised all Christ’s reproofs. What they con…

They answered and said to him
On account of his making mention of a father, whose works they did, and whom they imitated:

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 that the Jews had a certain spiritual origin, our Lord here rejects certain origins which they had presumptuously attribute…