John 8:39-59 - The Priority Of Jesus Over Abraham
39 They answered, and said unto him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said unto them, "If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the deeds of Abraham. 40 But now ye go about to kill me, a man that have told you the truth, which I have heard of God: This did not Abraham. 41 Ye do the deeds of your father." Then said they unto him, "We were not born of fornication. We have one father which is God."
42 Jesus said unto them, "If God were your father, then would ye have loved me. For I proceeded forth and come from God. Neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do ye not know my speech? Even because ye cannot abide the hearing of my words. 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father, ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning; And abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, then speaketh he of his own. For he is a liar, and the father thereof. 45 And because I tell you the truth, therefore ye believe me not. 46 "Which of you can rebuke me of sin? If I say the truth, why do not ye believe me? 47 He that is of God, heareth God's words. Ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God."
48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, "Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast the devil?"
49 Jesus answered, "I have not the devil: but I honour my father, and ye have dishonored me. 50 I seek not mine own praise: but there is one that seeketh it and judgeth. 51 "Verily, verily I say unto you, if a man keep my sayings, he shall never see death."
52 Then said the Jews to him, "Now know we that thou hast the devil. Abraham is dead, and also the prophets, and yet thou sayest, 'If a man keep my saying he shall never taste of death.' 53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? And the prophets are dead: Whom makest thou thyself?"
54 Jesus answered, "If I honour myself, mine honour is nothing worth. It is my father that honoureth me, which ye say is your God. 55 And ye have not known him. And if I should say, I know him not, I should be a liar like unto you; But I know him, and keep his saying. 56 Your father Abraham was glad to see my day, and he saw it and rejoiced."
57 Then said the Jews unto him, "Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?"
58 Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily I say unto you: Yer Abraham was, I am."
59 Then took they up stones, to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.