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Then the Yehudim answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Shomroni, and have a demon?"
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Yeshua answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
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But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
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Most assuredly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."
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Then the Yehudim said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Avraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'
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Are you greater than our father, Avraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"
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Yeshua answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
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You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.
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Your father Avraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad."
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The Yehudim therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Avraham?"
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Yeshua said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, before Avraham came into existence, I AM."