53. You are not greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself to be?”
54. Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
55. And you have not known him, but I know him. And if I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you! But I know him and I keep his word.
56. Abraham your father rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”
57. So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”
58. Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am!”
59. Then they picked up stones in order to throw them at him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple courts.