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John 8:56 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.” "
John 8:56
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54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.”
57 The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”
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John 8:1
"but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives."
John 8:2
"Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them."
John 8:3
"The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,"
John 8:4
"they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act."
John 8:5
"Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”"
John 8:6
"They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger."
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