Surely you are not greater than our father Abraham (Abraam | Ἀβραάμ | gen sg masc), are you? He died as did the prophets. Who are you making yourself out to be?”
The Jews therefore said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham (Abraam | Ἀβραάμ | nom sg masc) died, and so did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’
But now you are intent on killing me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham (Abraam | Ἀβραάμ | nom sg masc) did!
They answered him, saying, “Our father is Abraham!” (Abraam | Ἀβραάμ | nom sg masc) Jesus said to them, “If you were really Abraham’s (Abraam | Ἀβραάμ | gen sg masc) children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham (Abraam | Ἀβραάμ | gen sg masc).
I know that you are Abraham’s (Abraam | Ἀβραάμ | gen sg masc) descendants; but you are intent on killing me, because my teaching makes no headway in you.
They replied to him, “We are descendants of Abraham (Abraam | Ἀβραάμ | gen sg masc) and have never been slaves to anyone! How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”
But that the dead are raised, even Moses made known, in the passage about the bush, for he calls the Lord, ‘the God of Abraham (Abraam | Ἀβραάμ | gen sg masc) and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’
