39-43. Abraham is our father.

To Christ's allusion to their father they again assert that they are Abraham's offspring. This might be true according to the flesh, but spiritually they had another father. See verse 44.

Ye seek to kill me.

A thing totally unlike Abraham, and showing that they are not his spiritual children.

Ye do the deeds of your father.

The father named in verse 44.

If God were your father.

This is in reply to their claim that they are God's children. Their assertion is disproved by their hate of him who was sent from God. God's spiritual children would welcome "God manifest in the flesh."

Cannot hear my word.

They could not understand him, because they were morally incapable of hearing him. Satan, their father, had them captive, and their minds were so preoccupied, that they could not receive Christ's truth.

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