They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

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

Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

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

How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,

These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.