...context. The remark and inquiry of the Jews related to the period during which Jesus had existed. " Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham 1 " The answer of Jesus therefore must be interpreted as relating to the same subject : " Before Abraham...

...it yet fifty ye ¡lou seen Aon hait thou see: Then tu, Tiion rears old, and raham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am. Then took they up stones to cast at him : but Jesm hid himself, and went out of the temple. The Sunday...

...proceeded forth and came from God.— Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it aud was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not...verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.' How distant from common seuse, as well as piety, is language like this, proceeding from the mouth of...

...heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.' John viii. 57, 58. ' Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus saith unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.' John x. 30. ' I and my...

...his ministry, to the Jews, when cavilling with him concerning Abraham, in answer to their challenge, "Thou art not yet fifty years old; and hast thou seen Abraham ?" "Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am " (John viii. 57, 58). Our dear Lord did...

...convince him of a falsehood, from the impossibility of the things that he had asserted, ver. 57. ' Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham ?' Abraham was dead so many hundred years before thou wast born ; how couldst thou see him, or he thee?...

...not understand him, and objected rightly against its being true. respecting his person. Said they, " thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham ?" If he had meant his person, it had been no parable. Therefore it was not intended, as some think,...

...hearts seems to kindle with the clearness of the Revelation ; «* that when in conclusion He tells them, " Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was I AM ;" their fury can no longer be controlled, and they take ap stones to cast at Him. Their last attempt...

...occasions ) that his countrymen, when ridiculing him for saying, ' Before Abraham wcs, I am,' cry out, ' Thou ' art not yet FIFTY years old, and hast thou seen ' Abraham ?' — If his countenance had not borne the traces of near fifty years, they would surely have taken...

...explain the rest. John viii. 56, &c. " Your father Abraham rejoiced to illustrated. 61 to see my day, and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto...am." The meaning of this passage clearly is, that Abrahamyorejow the day of Christ, and that Christ was the subject of prophecy before the limes of Abraham....