Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one father [even] God. The meaning is, the were not an illegitimate race in point of religion, pretending only to be God's people, but were descended from His own chosen Abraham.