John 8:57 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵⁷Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

John 8:57 —

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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. 57)

57-59. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old--“No inference can be drawn from this as to the age of our Lord at the time as man. Fifty years was with the Jews the completion of manhood” [Alford]. and hast thou seen Abraham?--He had said Abraham saw Him, as being his peculiar privilege. They give the opposite turn to it--“Hast Thou seen Abraham?” as an honor too great for Hi…