John 8:40 meaning and explanation

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.

John 8:40, Berean Standard Bible

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Jesus is speaking in the temple courts to Jews who have claimed Abraham as their father. He presses the point that ancestry alone does not make them Abraham's true children.

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