John 8:37

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I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

They answered him, "We be Abraham's seed, and were never bond to any man: why sayest thou then, 'Ye shall be made free?'"

Ye men and brethren, children of the generation off Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is this word of salvation sent.

Neither are they all children straightway because they are the seed of Abraham: But in Isaac shall thy seed be called,

And this they said to tempt him: that they might have, whereof to accuse him. Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.

And therefore the Jews did persecute Jesus, and sought the means to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.

After that Jesus went about into Galilee, and would not go about in Jewry, for the Jews sought to kill him.

Then the Jews again took up stones, to stone him withal.

From that day forth they held a counsel together for to put him to death.

He that is of God, heareth God's words. Ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God."