WPNT(i)
53 Surely you aren’t greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets are dead. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
54 Jesus answered: “If I glorify myself my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God’.
55 Yet you have not known Him, but I do know Him. And if I should say that I don’t know Him I would be a liar just like you (pl); but I do know Him and I keep His word.
56 Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day; yes, he saw it and rejoiced.”
57 So the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and you have seen Abraham?!”
58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM!”