Jesus Claims Pre-existence: Before Abraham, I Am

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Then answered the Iewes, and said vnto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritane, and hast a deuil?

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Iesus answered, I haue not a deuil, but I honour my Father, and ye haue dishonoured me.

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And I seeke not mine owne praise: but there is one that seeketh it, and iudgeth.

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Verely, verely I say vnto you, If a man keepe my word, he shall neuer see death.

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Then said the Iewes to him, Now know we that thou hast a deuill. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets: and thou sayest, If a man keepe my worde, he shall neuer taste of death.

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Art thou greater then our father Abraham, which is dead? and the Prophets are dead: whome makest thou thy selfe?

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Iesus answered, If I honour my selfe, mine honour is nothing worth: it is my Father that honoureth me, whome ye say, that hee is your God.

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Yet ye haue not knowen him: but I knowe him, and if I should say I know him not, I should be a liar like vnto you: but I knowe him, and keepe his worde.

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Your father Abraham reioyced to see my day, and he sawe it, and was glad.

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Then sayd ye Iewes vnto him, Thou art not yet fiftie yeere olde, and hast thou seene Abraham?

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Iesus sayd vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, before Abraham was, I am.

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Then tooke they vp stones, to cast at him, but Iesus hid himselfe, and went out of the Temple: And hee passed through the middes of them, and so went his way.

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