John 8:53

KJV1611 – Modern English

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead: whom do you make yourself out to be?

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  • John 4:12 : 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?
  • John 8:58 : 58 Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am.
  • John 10:29-30 : 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and my Father are one.
  • John 10:33 : 33 The Jews answered him, saying, We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.
  • John 12:34 : 34 The people answered him, We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever; and how can you say, The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?
  • John 19:7 : 7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
  • Rom 9:5 : 5 Of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
  • Heb 3:2-3 : 2 Who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. 3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who has built the house has more honor than the house.
  • Heb 7:1-7 : 1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings, and blessed him; 2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; 3 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like the Son of God; remains a priest continually. 4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils. 5 And indeed those who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, though they come from the loins of Abraham: 6 But he whose genealogy is not counted from them received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises. 7 And without all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the greater.
  • Isa 9:6 : 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
  • Matt 12:6 : 6 But I say to you, that in this place is one greater than the temple.
  • Matt 12:41-42 : 41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here. 42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

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  • John 8:52
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    52Then the Jews said to him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keeps my word, he shall never taste death.

  • John 8:54-58
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    54Jesus answered, If I honor myself, my honor is nothing: it is my Father who honors me; of whom you say, that he is your God:

    55Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I do not know him, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his word.

    56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

    57Then the Jews said to him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?

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

  • John 8:37-42
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    37I know that you are Abraham's descendants; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.

    38I speak what I have seen with my Father: and you do what you have seen with your father.

    39They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

    40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I have heard from God: Abraham did not do this.

    41You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

    42Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I came out and came from God; neither did I come of myself, but he sent me.

  • John 10:32-36
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    32Jesus answered them, Many good works I have shown you from my Father; for which of these works do you stone me?

    33The Jews answered him, saying, We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.

    34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, You are gods?

    35If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken,

    36Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?

  • John 8:48-50
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    71%

    48Then the Jews answered and said to him, Do we not say rightly that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?

    49Jesus answered, I do not have a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

    50And I do not seek my own glory: there is one who seeks and judges.

  • John 8:13-14
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    13The Pharisees therefore said to him, You bear witness of yourself; your witness is not true.

    14Jesus answered and said to them, Though I bear witness of myself, my witness is true: for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you cannot tell where I come from, and where I am going.

  • John 19:7
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    7The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

  • Acts 7:52
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    52Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,

  • John 8:19
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    19Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know me nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also.

  • John 8:22-25
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    22Then the Jews said, Will he kill himself? because he says, Where I go, you cannot come.

    23And he said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

    24I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your sins: for if you do not believe that I am he, you shall die in your sins.

    25Then they said to him, Who are you? And Jesus said to them, Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

  • John 18:34
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    34Jesus answered him, Do you say this of yourself, or did others tell you about me?

  • John 7:19-20
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    19Did not Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?

    20The people answered and said, You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill you?

  • John 4:12
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    12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?

  • John 8:33
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    33They answered him, We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone: how can you say, You shall be made free?

  • John 2:18
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    18So the Jews answered and said to him, What sign do you show to us, since you do these things?

  • Matt 22:32
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    32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

  • Mark 12:26-27
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    26But concerning the dead, that they rise: have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

    27He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.

  • John 8:28
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    28Then Jesus said to them, When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you shall know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things.

  • John 8:46
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    46Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

  • John 6:42
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    42And they said, Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he says, I came down from heaven?

  • Luke 20:37
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    37Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed in the bush passage, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

  • Matt 3:9
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    9And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

  • Luke 11:48
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    48Truly you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.