John 8:53 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵³Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?

John 8:53 —

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Cross-References

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John 4:12
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Romans 9:5
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Hebrews 7:1-7
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; …
John 10:29-30
My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. …
John 10:33
The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

Topics

Atheism Disbelief Godlessness Impenitence Infidelity Scoffing Self-Righteousness Skepticism

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 51-59)

In these verses we have, I. The doctrine of the immortality of believers laid down, John 8:51. It is ushered in with the usual solemn preface, Verily, verily, I say unto you, which commands both attention and assent, and this is what he says, If a man keep my sayings, he shall never see death. Here we have, 1. The character of a believer: he is one that keeps the sayings of the Lord Jesus, ton log…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 53)

52-53. Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil, &c.--“Thou art now self-convicted; only a demoniac could speak so; the most illustrious of our fathers are dead, and Thou promisest exemption from death to anyone who will keep Thy saying! pray, who art Thou?”