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John 8:56
Your father Abraham reioyced to see my day, and he sawe it, and was glad.
John 8:56 · Geneva Bible
John 8:56 in other translations
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.”
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.”
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In context
53 Art thou greater then our father Abraham, which is dead? and the Prophets are dead: whome makest thou thy selfe?
54 Iesus answered, If I honour my selfe, mine honour is nothing worth: it is my Father that honoureth me, whome ye say, that hee is your God.
55 Yet ye haue not knowen him: but I knowe him, and if I should say I know him not, I should be a liar like vnto you: but I knowe him, and keepe his worde.
56 Your father Abraham reioyced to see my day, and he sawe it, and was glad.
57 Then sayd ye Iewes vnto him, Thou art not yet fiftie yeere olde, and hast thou seene Abraham?
58 Iesus sayd vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, before Abraham was, I am.
59 Then tooke they vp stones, to cast at him, but Iesus hid himselfe, and went out of the Temple: And hee passed through the middes of them, and so went his way.
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