But now (νυν δε). Clear statement that they are not doing "the works of Abraham" in seeking to kill him. See this use of νυν δε af…

Ye seek to kill me. See John 8:37.

This did not Abraham. Or such things Abraham did not do. There are two things noted her…

But now you seek to kill me—that is, as a matter of fact, in opposition to the conduct that would characterize the true c…

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…

But now you seek to kill me. He proves from the effect, that they are not the children of God, as they boasted, because they oppose God. A…

But now you seek to kill me
A temper and disposition very foreign from that of Abraham's:

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…