⁵⁶ Your father Abraham ^(A)rejoiced to see My day, ^(B)and he saw it and was glad.”

The Heavenly Hope

¹³ These all died in faith, ^(A)not having received the ^(B)promises, but ^(C)having seen them afar off ^[a]were assured of them, embraced them and ^(D)confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

^18 (A)In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, ^(B)because you have obeyed My voice.”

⁷ Therefore know that only ^(A)those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. ⁸ And ^(B)the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, ^(C)“In you all the nations shall be blessed.” ⁹ So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

³⁹ They answered and said to Him, ^(A)“Abraham is our father.”

Jesus said to them, ^(B)“If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

²⁴ for I tell you ^(A)that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.”

¹⁷ for assuredly, I say to you ^(A)that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

¹⁰ Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, ¹¹ searching what, or what manner of time, ^(A)the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. ¹² To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to ^[a]us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which ^(B)angels desire to look into.

³⁹ And all these, ^(A)having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise,