Exploring the Gospels - Abraham rejoiced to see my day - Marcus Da Costa
Having remained in Jerusalem after the feast to continue teaching at the temple, though the Jews called themselves both children of Abraham and of God, because they were servants of sin and unrighteousness, Yeshua labelled them children of the devil. Yeshua therefore makes a distinction between those he came to free, unto becoming children of the Most High, through the adherence of the word and baptism of the Spirit, from those who may monopolise the infrastructure of the covenant, all the while being foreign to he who they’re supposed to be in covenant with.