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57 Then the Jewish leaders[a] asked him, “You are not even 50 years old, yet you have seen Abraham?”[b]

58 Jesus told them, “Truly, I tell all of you[c] emphatically, before there was an Abraham, I AM!” 59 At this, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:57 I.e. Judean leaders; lit. the Jews
  2. John 8:57 Other mss. read Abraham has seen you?
  3. John 8:58 The Gk. pronoun you is pl.

57 “You are not yet fifty years old,” they said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!”

58 “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born,(A) I am!”(B) 59 At this, they picked up stones to stone him,(C) but Jesus hid himself,(D) slipping away from the temple grounds.

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