“Behold, we are slaves this day ... behold, we are slaves.”
“We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone.”
You can’t solve a problem unless you know what it is.
John 8:33 records a very strange statement, the second
one I have quoted above. It appears to have been made not specifically by the Pharisees
or Sadducees (though there may have been some of these present, of course), but more generally, by men who had just made a public confession of belief in Christ.
The statement was this: “We have never been enslaved to
anyone.”