They answered him: We are the posterity of Abraham, and have never been in bondage to any one. How say you, You shall be made free?

I know that you are the posterity of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.

They answered and said to him: Abra ham is our father. Jesus said to them: If you were the children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham.

But now you seek to kill me, a man that has spoken to you the truth, which I have heard from God; this Abraham did not.

Then said the Jews to him: Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keep my word, he shall never taste of death.

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead; whom do you make yourself?

Abraham, your father, rejoiced that he could see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.

Then the Jews said to him: You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?

Jesus said to them: Verily, verily I say to you, before Abraham came into being, I was.