³⁹ “Our father is Abraham!” they replied.

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

God’s Gracious Election of Israel

⁶ But it is not as though the word of God has failed.^(A) For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.^(B)

¹⁵ For^[a] both circumcision and uncircumcision^(A) mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.^(B)