Note 16 at Joh 8:41: These Jews were finally beginning to recognize through Jesus' statements that there was more to being a Jew than being a physical descendant of Abraham, and they became very offended. In their effort to qualify spiritually as Jews, they did exactly what they had sought to kill Jesus for. They said that God was their Father (Joh 5:17-18). Jesus, in His wisdom, "made foolish the wisdom of this world" (1Co 1:20).