Jesus Claims Pre-existence: Before Abraham, I Am

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The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil?

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Jesus answered: I have not a devil: but I honour my Father. And you have dishonoured me.

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But I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

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Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever.

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The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets: and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shall not taste death for ever.

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Art thou greater than our father Abraham who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself?

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Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifieth me, of whom you say that he is your God.

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And you have not known him: but I know him. And if I shall say that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him and do keep his word.

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Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it and was glad.

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The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old. And hast thou seen Abraham?

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Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I AM.

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They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

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