John 8:37-40

³⁷ “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.

³⁸ I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father.”

³⁹ They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

⁴⁰ 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.

no place (v. 37) = no entrance

Father — spiritual model

your father (v. 38) — Satan. You are of your father the devil (John 8:44).

They couldn’t be Abraham’s children (v. 39) because they did not believe Jesus. Abraham believed God (Romans 4:11; Romans 9:7)

They were Abraham’s physical descendants, but not his children by faith.