³³ “We are descendants^[a] of Abraham,”^(A) they answered him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”

³⁹ “Our father is Abraham,” they replied.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.^(A)

²³ But the one by the slave was born as a result of the flesh, while the one by the free woman was born through promise.