John 8:39-41

Expanded Bible

³⁹ They answered, “Our father is Abraham.”

Jesus said to them, “If you were really Abraham’s children, you would do^[a] the things Abraham did. ⁴⁰ I am a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God, but you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like that. ⁴¹ So you are doing the things your own father did.”

But [or Therefore] they said to him, “We are not ·like children who never knew who their father was [illegitimate children; ^Lborn from/of fornication]. God is our Father; he is the only Father we have.”