They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
Ver. 39. Abraham is our father] But it ill appeareth by your practice. Degenerate plants ye are, and such as shame your father, as much as Augustus' three children did him, whom he usually called his tres vomicas, tria carcinomata, three botches and carbuncles.