Mat 3:9 | PNT | STEP | Think not to say . . . We have Abraham to [our] father . They believed that Abraham;s race was to be saved, if all else were destroyed. John destroys the refuge of sin. Of these stones . Pointing, perhaps, to the stones of the Jordan. In thus sinking the higher claims of Judaism, John points to the Gentiles, who were to become Abraham's children by faith ( ).

Matthew 3:9

Think not to say . . . We have Abraham to [our] father. They believed that Abraham;s race was to be saved, if all else were destroyed. John destroys the refuge of sin.

Of these stones. Pointing, perhaps, to the stones of the Jordan. In thus sinking the higher claims of Judaism, John points to the Gentiles, who were to become Abraham's children by faith (Ga 3:29).