Abraham

and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform.

And Jesus said unto him--`To-day salvation did come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;

`And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say--Ye shall become free?'

`I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

and now, ye seek to kill me--a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death--to the age!

Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom dost thou make thyself?'

Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.'

The Jews, therefore, said unto him, `Thou art not yet fifty years old, and Abraham hast thou seen?'

Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming--I am;'

`The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release him ,

`Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made unto our fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in thy seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth;

and he said, `Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran,

`And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob--the twelve patriarchs;

and they were carried over into Sychem, and were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in money from the sons of Emmor, of Sychem.

`And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

I am the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. `And Moses having become terrified, durst not behold,

`Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,

What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast--but not before God;

for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;'

Is this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision--for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham--to righteousness?

and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.