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Ye do the works of your father (humeis poieite ta erga tou patros humōn). Who is not Abraham and not God as Jesus plainly indicates.
We were not born of fornication (hēmeis ek porneias egennēthēmen). First aorist passive indicative of gennaō. This they said as a proud boast. Jesus had admitted that they were physical (Deu 23:2) descendants of Abraham (Joh 8:37), but now denies that they are spiritual children of Abraham (like Paul in Rom 9:7). Porneia is from pornos (harlot) and that from pernēmi, to sell, a woman who sells her body for sexual uses. It is vaguely possible that in this stern denial the Pharisees may have an indirect fling at Jesus as the bastard son of Mary (so Talmud).
We have one Father, even God (hena patera echomen ton theon). No “even” in the Greek, “One Father we have, God.” This in direct reply to the implication of Jesus (Joh 8:38) that God was not their spiritual Father.