John 8:53

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets also died. Who do you claim to be?”

Cross References

Isaiah 9:6

For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Matthew 12:6

I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.

Matthew 3:9

Do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

John 10:33

The Jews answered, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God.”

John 12:34

The crowd answered him, “We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”

John 19:7

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God.”

John 4:12

Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?”

John 5:18

For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”

Romans 9:5

to them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, comes the Messiah, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.