They — The other Jews that were by, (not those that believed,) as appears by the whole tenor of the conversation. We were never enslaved to any man — A bold, notorious untruth. At that very time they were enslaved to the Romans.
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John 8:33
33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou,Ye shall be made free?