58Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. …
Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
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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 l…
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