For a child will be born for us, a son will be given to us, and the government will be on his shoulders. He will be named Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
John 8:53 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Are you greater than our father Abraham who died? And the prophets died. Who do you claim to be? ’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, and all the prophets died! Who do You make Yourself out to be? American Standard Version (1901) Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died: whom makest thou thyself? Common English Bible Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died and the prophets died, so who do you make yourself out to be?” Catholic Public Domain Version Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. So who do you make yourself to be?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself? |
For a child will be born for us, a son will be given to us, and the government will be on his shoulders. He will be named Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
And don’t presume to say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our father.” For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
‘We aren’t stoning you for a good work,’ the Jews answered, ‘but for blasphemy, because you #– #being a man #– #make yourself God.’
Then the crowd replied to him, ‘We have heard from the law that the Messiah will remain for ever. So how can you say, “The Son of Man must be lifted up”? Who is this Son of Man? ’
‘We have a law,’ the Jews replied to him, ‘and according to that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.’
You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.’
This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, praised forever. , Amen.