They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you.

They replied to him, "Our father is Abraham!"

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

Then the Jewish leaders told him, "Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, "If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

You aren't greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? The prophets also died. Who are you making yourself out to be?"

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "You are not even 50 years old, yet you have seen Abraham?"

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, before there was an Abraham, I AM!"