They answered Him, We are Abraham's seed, and have been in slavery to no one at any time. How can You say, You will be made free?

Men and brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the Word of this salvation is sent.

nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac your Seed shall be called.

This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.

But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus was hidden and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath.

Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for He did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him.

Did not Moses give you the Law, yet none of you keeps the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?

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

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

Then, from that day on, they took counsel to kill Him.

Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to hear My Word.

And because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.

He who is of God hears God's Words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.

How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from God only?

Therefore they were not able to believe, because Isaiah said again:

These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.

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

for the heart of this people has grown dull, their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, that they should not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their heart and convert, and I should heal them.

When anyone hears the Word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is that which was sown by the wayside.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when affliction or persecution arises because of the Word, immediately he stumbles.

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.