Ye do the works of your father (υμεις ποιειτε τα εργα του πατρος υμων). Who is not Abraham and not God as Jesus plainly indicates.…

The deeds of your father. See John 8:38. Jesus repeats the charge, and yet repeats it as if unwilling to name Satan as their father. He ch…

You do the deeds of your father.—It is better to read works rather than “deeds,” as in John 8:39. They did not d…

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…

We were not born of fornication. They claim no more for themselves than they did previously, for to them, being Abraham’s children was the…

You do the deeds of your father
Not Abraham, but the devil.

Satan prompts people to exce es by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into their minds tends to ruin their souls. He is th…

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