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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
He here repeatedly handleth their murderous intention, and maketh mention of Abraham. And this He doth desiring to draw off their attention from this relationship, and to take away their excessive boasting, and also to persuade them no longer to rest their hopes of salvation in Abraham, nor in the relationship which is according to nature, but in that which is according to the will. For what hindered their coming to Christ was this, their deeming that relationship to be sufficient for them to salvation. …
Cyril of Alexandria
Soothing, so to say, by every way and word the boldness of the Jews, Christ speaks to them veiledly, not applying open conviction but mingled with gentle speech, and in lowly wise and manifoldly charming their wrath. For since He sees that they are most exceeding silly and understand nought of what is said, He makes His Discourse free at length from any veil and bared of all covering. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
So then, you who breathe murder and seek to kill Me are not children of Abraham. Then, lest someone say that they justly seek to kill You, He says: "I am a Man who does not rise up against God, who does not seek His own glory, but who speaks what I have heard from My Father and tells the truth." What then was this truth? That He is equal to the Father and not a servant, like one of the prophets, but the Son, who does nothing and says nothing of Himself, but all things from the Father. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then (v 40) he shows that they do not have the above mentioned sign of being children. First, the conduct of the Jews is given; secondly, he shows that it does not resemble the conduct of Abraham (v 40b). The conduct of the Jews is shown to be wicked and perverse, because they were murderers; so he says, now you seek to kill me: "How the faithful city has become a harlot, she that was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers" (Is 1:21). This murder was an unfathomable sin against the person of the Son of God. …
Bonaventure
"But now you seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I heard from God," and thus a just and innocent man; "this" however "Abraham did not do," because it is unjust and is prohibited by the Law; Exodus twenty-three: "The innocent and the just you shall not put to death." Therefore the father whom you imitate is another.
Alcuin of York
As if to say, By this you prove that you are not the sons of Abraham; that you do works contrary to those of Abraham.
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