Bible Reading May 30, 31
World English Bible
Judges
17, 18
Jdg
17:1 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was
Micah.
Jdg
17:2 He said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces
of silver that were taken from you, about which you did utter a
curse, and did also speak it in my ears, behold, the silver is with
me; I took it. His mother said, Blessed be my son of Yahweh.
Jdg
17:3 He restored the eleven hundred pieces
of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I most certainly
dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make an
engraved image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to
you.
Jdg
17:4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two
hundred pieces
of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved
image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.
Jdg
17:5 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and
teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Jdg
17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that
which was right in his own eyes.
Jdg
17:7 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of
Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
Jdg
17:8 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to
sojourn where he could find a place,
and he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as
he traveled.
Jdg
17:9 Micah said to him, Where did you come from? He said to him, I
am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find
a place.
Jdg
17:10 Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a
priest, and I will give you ten pieces
of silver by the year, and a suit of clothing, and your food. So the
Levite went in.
Jdg
17:11 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young
man was to him as one of his sons.
Jdg
17:12 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his
priest, and was in the house of Micah.
Jdg
17:13 Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good,
seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
Jdg
18:1 In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days
the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for
to that day their
inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.
Jdg
18:2 The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their
whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out
the land, and to search it; and they said to them, Go, search the
land. They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of
Micah, and lodged there.
Jdg
18:3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of
the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to
him, Who brought you here? and what do you in this place? and what do
you have here?
Jdg
18:4 He said to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he
has hired me, and I am become his priest.
Jdg
18:5 They said to him, Ask counsel, please, of God, that we may know
whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
Jdg
18:6 The priest said to them, Go in peace: before Yahweh is your way
wherein you go.
Jdg
18:7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the
people who were therein, how they lived in security, after the manner
of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land,
possessing authority, that might put them
to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had
no dealings with any man.
Jdg
18:8 They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their
brothers said to them, What do you say?
Jdg
18:9 They said, Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have
seen the land, and behold, it is very good: and are you still? don't
be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
Jdg
18:10 When you go, you shall come to a people secure, and the land
is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is
no want of anything that is in the earth.
Jdg
18:11 There set forth from there of the family of the Danites, out
of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of
war.
Jdg
18:12 They went up, and encamped in Kiriath Jearim, in Judah:
therefore they called that place Mahaneh Dan, to this day; behold, it
is behind Kiriath Jearim.
Jdg
18:13 They passed there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to
the house of Micah.
Jdg
18:14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish
answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in
these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a
molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.
Jdg
18:15 They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young
man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his
welfare.
Jdg
18:16 The six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were
of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
Jdg
18:17 The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in
there, and took the engraved image, and the ephod, and the teraphim,
and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the
gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
Jdg
18:18 When these went into Micah's house, and fetched the engraved
image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest
said to them, What do you?
Jdg
18:19 They said to him, Hold your peace, put your hand on your
mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it
better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest
to a tribe and a family in Israel?
Jdg
18:20 The priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the
teraphim, and the engraved image, and went in the midst of the
people.
Jdg
18:21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the
livestock and the goods before them.
Jdg
18:22 When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who
were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and
overtook the children of Dan.
Jdg
18:23 They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces,
and said to Micah, What ails you, that you come with such a company?
Jdg
18:24 He said, you have taken away my gods which I made, and the
priest, and have gone away, and what have I more? and how then do you
say to me, What ails you?
Jdg
18:25 The children of Dan said to him, "Don't let your voice be
heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your
life, with the lives of your household."
Jdg
18:26 The children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that
they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
Jdg
18:27 They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he
had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them
with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.
Jdg
18:28 There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and
they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lies
by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived therein.
Jdg
18:29 They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan
their father, who was born to Israel: however the name of the city
was Laish at the first.
Jdg
18:30 The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image:
and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons
were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the
captivity of the land.
Jdg
18:31 So they set them up Micah's engraved image which he made, all
the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Judges
19, 20
Jdg
19:1 It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel,
that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the
hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem
Judah.
Jdg
19:2 His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away
from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the
space of four months.
Jdg
19:3 Her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her,
to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of
donkeys: and she brought him into her father's house; and when the
father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
Jdg
19:4 His father-in-law, the young lady's father, retained him; and
he abode with him three days: so they ate and drink, and lodged
there.
Jdg
19:5 It happened on the fourth day, that they arose early in the
morning, and he rose up to depart: and the young lady's father said
to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and
afterward you shall go your way.
Jdg
19:6 So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together: and
the young lady's father said to the man, Please be pleased to stay
all night, and let your heart be merry.
Jdg
19:7 The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and
he lodged there again.
Jdg
19:8 He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and
the young lady's father said, Please strengthen your heart and stay
until the day declines; and they ate, both of them.
Jdg
19:9 When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his
servant, his father-in-law, the young lady's father, said to him,
Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night:
behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be
merry; and tomorrow get you early on your way, that you may go home.
Jdg
19:10 But the man wouldn't stay that night, but he rose up and
departed, and came over against Jebus (the same is Jerusalem): and
there were with him a couple of donkeys saddled; his concubine also
was with him.
Jdg
19:11 When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the
servant said to his master, Please come and let us turn aside into
this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.
Jdg
19:12 His master said to him, We won't turn aside into the city of a
foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass
over to Gibeah.
Jdg
19:13 He said to his servant, Come and let us draw near to one of
these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
Jdg
19:14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on
them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
Jdg
19:15 They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he
went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no
man who took them into his house to lodge.
Jdg
19:16 Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field
at even: now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he
sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.
Jdg
19:17 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street
of the city; and the old man said, Where are you going? Where did you
come from?
Jdg
19:18 He said to him, We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the
farther side of the hill country of Ephraim; from there am I, and I
went to Bethlehem Judah: and I am now
going to the house of Yahweh; and there is no man who takes me into
his house.
Jdg
19:19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and
there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for
the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of
anything.
Jdg
19:20 The old man said, Peace be to you; howsoever let all your
wants lie on me; only don't lodge in the street.
Jdg
19:21 So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder;
and they washed their feet, and ate and drink.
Jdg
19:22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the
city, certain base fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the
door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying,
Bring forth the man who came into your house, that we may know him.
Jdg
19:23 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said
to them, No, my brothers, please don't act so wickedly; seeing that
this man is come into my house, don't do this folly.
Jdg
19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a virgin, and his concubine; them
I will bring out now, and humble them, and do with them what seems
good to you: but to this man don't do any such folly.
Jdg
19:25 But the men wouldn't listen to him: so the man laid hold on
his concubine, and brought her forth to them; and they knew her, and
abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to
spring, they let her go.
Jdg
19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down
at the door of the man's house where her lord was, until it was
light.
Jdg
19:27 Her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the
house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his
concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on
the threshold.
Jdg
19:28 He said to her, Up, and let us be going; but none answered:
then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and got him
to his place.
Jdg
19:29 When he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid
hold on his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve
pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.
Jdg
19:30 It was so, that all who saw it said, There was no such deed
done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of
the land of Egypt to this day: consider it, take counsel, and speak.
Jdg
20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation
was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land
of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
Jdg
20:2 The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel,
presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four
hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.
Jdg
20:3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel
had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, Tell us, how
was this wickedness brought to pass?
Jdg
20:4 The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered,
answered, I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my
concubine, to lodge.
Jdg
20:5 The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by
night. They thought to have slain me, and they forced my concubine,
and she is dead.
Jdg
20:6 I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her
throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they
have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
Jdg
20:7 Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your
advice and counsel.
Jdg
20:8 All the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us
go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to his house.
Jdg
20:9 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we
will go up against it by lot;
Jdg
20:10 and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the
tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out
of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when
they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they
have worked in Israel.
Jdg
20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit
together as one man.
Jdg
20:12 The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of
Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is happen among you?
Jdg
20:13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in
Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel.
But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the
children of Israel.
Jdg
20:14 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of
the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of
Israel.
Jdg
20:15 The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the
cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the
inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
Jdg
20:16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men
left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not
miss.
Jdg
20:17 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four
hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.
Jdg
20:18 The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked
counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle
against the children of Benjamin? Yahweh said, Judah shall
go up first.
Jdg
20:19 The children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped
against Gibeah.
Jdg
20:20 The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the
men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
Jdg
20:21 The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and
destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two
thousand men.
Jdg
20:22 The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set
the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in
array the first day.
Jdg
20:23 The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until
even; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, Shall I again draw near to
battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? Yahweh said, Go
up against him.
Jdg
20:24 The children of Israel came near against the children of
Benjamin the second day.
Jdg
20:25 Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day,
and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again
eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
Jdg
20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up,
and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted
that day until even; and they offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings before Yahweh.
Jdg
20:27 The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the
covenant of God was there in those days,
Jdg
20:28 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood
before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle
against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? Yahweh
said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.
Jdg
20:29 Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
Jdg
20:30 The children of Israel went up against the children of
Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against
Gibeah, as at other times.
Jdg
20:31 The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were
drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the
people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to
Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of
Israel.
Jdg
20:32 The children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us,
as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and
draw them away from the city to the highways.
Jdg
20:33 All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set
themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the ambushers of Israel broke
forth out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.
Jdg
20:34 There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of
all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they didn't know that evil
was close on them.
Jdg
20:35 Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of
Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one
hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Jdg
20:36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the
men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted the
ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.
Jdg
20:37 The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the ambushers
drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the
sword.
Jdg
20:38 Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the
ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up
out of the city.
Jdg
20:39 The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to
strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they
said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.
Jdg
20:40 But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a
pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the
whole of the city went up in smoke to the sky.
Jdg
20:41 The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were
dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them.
Jdg
20:42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to
the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them;
and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in its midst.
Jdg
20:43 They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and
trod them down at their
resting place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrise.
Jdg
20:44 There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were
men of valor.
Jdg
20:45 They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of
Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men,
and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two
thousand men.
Jdg
20:46 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five
thousand men who drew the sword; all these were
men of valor.
Jdg
20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to
the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.
Jdg
20:48 The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin,
and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and
the livestock, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which
they found they set on fire.
John 8
Joh 8:1
but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
Joh 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.
Joh 8:3
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery.
Having set her in the midst,
Joh 8:4
they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in
the very act.
Joh 8:5
Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you
say about her?"
Joh 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.
Joh 8:7
But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them,
"He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone
at her."
Joh 8:8
Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
Joh 8:9
They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went
out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus
was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
Joh
8:10 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are
your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"
Joh
8:11 She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither
do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."
Joh
8:12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the
light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness,
but will have the light of life."
Joh
8:13 The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about
yourself. Your testimony is not valid."
Joh
8:14 Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my
testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am
going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.
Joh
8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
Joh
8:16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone,
but I am with the Father who sent me.
Joh
8:17 It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people
is valid.
Joh
8:18 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me
testifies about me."
Joh
8:19 They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?"
Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew
me, you would know my Father also."
Joh
8:20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the
temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
Joh
8:21 Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and
you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you
can't come."
Joh
8:22 The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he
says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?' "
Joh
8:23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above.
You are of this world. I am not of this world.
Joh
8:24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for
unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."
Joh
8:25 They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said
to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the
beginning.
Joh
8:26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you.
However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from
him, these I say to the world."
Joh
8:27 They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
Joh
8:28 Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the
Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of
myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
Joh
8:29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for
I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
Joh
8:30 As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
Joh
8:31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If
you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
Joh
8:32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
Joh
8:33 They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never
been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?' "
Joh
8:34 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone
who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
Joh
8:35 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains
forever.
Joh
8:36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
Joh
8:37 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me,
because my word finds no place in you.
Joh
8:38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also
do the things which you have seen with your father."
Joh
8:39 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus
said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the
works of Abraham.
Joh
8:40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth,
which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.
Joh
8:41 You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We
were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
Joh
8:42 Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father,
you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I
haven't come of myself, but he sent me.
Joh
8:43 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my
word.
Joh
8:44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the
desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and
doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
Joh
8:45 But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.
Joh
8:46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do
you not believe me?
Joh
8:47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you
don't hear, because you are not of God."
Joh
8:48 Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you
are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
Joh
8:49 Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my
Father, and you dishonor me.
Joh
8:50 But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and
judges.
Joh
8:51 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will
never see death."
Joh
8:52 Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a
demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps
my word, he will never taste of death.'
Joh
8:53 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The
prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"
Joh
8:54 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.
Joh
8:55 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.
Joh
8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was
glad."
Joh
8:57 The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty
years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
Joh
8:58 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before
Abraham came into existence, I AM."
Joh
8:59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was
hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of
them, and so passed by.
