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Yeshua answered, "If I praise myself, my praise counts for nothing. The One who is praising me is my Father, the very one about whom you keep saying, `He is our God.'
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Now you have not known him, but I do know him; indeed, if I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you! But I do know him, and I obey his word.
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Avraham, your father, was glad that he would see my day; then he saw it and was overjoyed."
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"Why, you're not yet fifty years old," the Judeans replied, "and you have seen Avraham?"
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Yeshua said to them, "Yes, indeed! Before Avraham came into being, I AM!"
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At this, they picked up stones to throw at him; but Yeshua was hidden and left the Temple grounds.