57 The Jews replied, “You aren’t 50 years old yet, and You’ve seen Abraham?”[a]

58 Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Before Abraham was, I am.”[b](A)

59 At that, they picked up stones(B) to throw at Him.(C) But Jesus was hidden[c](D) and went out of the temple complex.[d](E)

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:57 Other mss read and Abraham has seen You?
  2. John 8:58 I AM is the name God gave Himself at the burning bush; Ex 3:13-14; see note at Jn 8:24.
  3. John 8:59 Or Jesus hid Himself
  4. John 8:59 Other mss add and having gone through their midst, He passed by

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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