Bible Verses About Abraham: How regarded by his descendants

and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have--Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,

and this one, being a daughter of Abraham, whom the Adversary bound, lo, eighteen years, did it not behove to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?'

`There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye may see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the reign of God, and yourselves being cast out without;

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

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?'

Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

and the servant doth not remain in the house--to the age, the son doth remain--to the age;

if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

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

I--that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father--ye do.'

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?'

Jesus answered, `If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me, of whom ye say that He is your God;

and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you--speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

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;'

they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.