35 A slave does not belong to a family permanently, but a son belongs there forever.
36 If the Son sets you free, then you will be really free.
37 I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me, because you will not accept my teaching.
38 I talk about what my Father has shown me, but you do what your father has told you.”
39 They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.”“If you really were Abraham's children,” Jesus replied, “you would do the same things that he did.
40 All I have ever done is to tell you the truth I heard from God, yet you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like this!
41 You are doing what your father did.”“God himself is the only Father we have,” they answered, “and we are his true children.”