^{39 Ref} They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

^{40 Ref} and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

^{41 Ref} ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'