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Jesus answered, "If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father that honoreth Me, of whom ye say that He is your God.
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Yet ye have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I should say, `I know Him not,' I shall be a liar like unto you. But I know Him and keep His saying.
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Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day; and He saw it and was glad."
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Then said the Jews unto Him, "Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?"
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Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am!"
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Then they took up stones to cast at Him; but Jesus hid Himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.