John 8:58 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵⁸Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

John 8:58 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 3:14
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.
John 17:5
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Colossians 1:17
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
John 1:1-2
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. …
Isaiah 44:6
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.

Topics

Jesus, the Christ Self-Righteousness

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. 58)

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…