56. Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.’
57. ‘You are not yet fifty years old,’ they said to him, ‘and you have seen Abraham!’
58. ‘Very truly I tell you,’ Jesus answered, ‘before Abraham was born, I am!’
59. At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.