They were indignant. “Our father is Abraham!”Jesus said, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would have been doing the things Abraham did. And yet here you are trying to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth he got straight from God! Abraham never did that sort of thing. You persist in repeating the works of your father.”They said, “We’re not bastards. We have a legitimate father: the one and only God.”