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