John 8:59
Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Yeshua hid himself and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
World Messianic Bible
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In Context
58Yeshua said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”
Cross References
Leviticus 24:16He who blasphemes the LORD’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.
Luke 4:29They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
John 5:13But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Yeshua had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
John 10:30I and the Father are one.”
John 11:8The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Judeans were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”
John 12:36While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Yeshua said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
Matthew Henry on John 8:52-59
Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees 51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. 52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. 53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? 54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye… Read the whole commentary →