which will certainly take some explaining, Jesus accuses his questioners of trying to murder him, contests their claim to be descended from Abraham, and furthermore suggests that these Jews have as their father neither Abraham nor God, but the devil. Such discoveries are bound to be disquieting. Yet the source of one’s discomfort may be easily enough put aside if one will only be selective in his reading. Within a given chapter—chapter 8, for example, where the saying quoted above is found—one may