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57 The Jews then said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old. How can you have seen Abraham?” 58 Jesus responded,

“Amen, amen, I say to you,
before Abraham was,
I AM.”[a]

59 Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but he hid himself and left the temple.

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:58 I AM: see notes on Jn 6:20 and 6:35.

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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