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Selected Verse: John 8:57 - Strong Concordance

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Joh 8:57 Strong Concordance Then [3767] said [2036] the Jews [2453] unto [4314] him [846], Thou art [2192] not yet [3768] fifty [4004] years old [2094], and [2532] hast thou seen [3708] Abraham [11]?
  King James Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
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 Him to pretend to.
 
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53 Art [3361] [1488] thou [4771] greater than [3187] our [2257] father [3962] Abraham [11], which [3748] is dead [599]? and [2532] the prophets [4396] are dead [599]: whom [5101] makest [4160] thou [4771] thyself [4572]?