-On the contrary, ye seek to commit murder, and a murder of the most heinous kind. Ye would kill One who hath spoken unto you the truth, truth which He learnt from God."

a man that hath told you This pointed insertion of -man" possibly looks forward to John 8:44, where they are called the children of the great man-slayer, lusting like him for blood. The Lord nowhere else uses this term of Himself.

this did not Abraham A litotesor understatement of the truth. Abraham's life was utterly unlike the whole tenour of theirs. What could there be in common between -the Friend of God" (James 2:23) and the enemies of God's Son?

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