John 8:53

Revised Standard Version CI

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you claim to be?”

Cross References

Isaiah 9:6

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called “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

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

John 10:33

The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

John 12:34

The crowd answered him, “We have heard from the law that the Christ remains for ever. 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 by that law he ought to die, because he has made himself the Son of God.”

John 4:12

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?”

John 5:18

This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

Romans 9:5

to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ. God who is over all be blessed for ever. Amen.