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John 8:57
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The Jews said to Jesus, "What? How can you say you have seen Abraham? You are not even 50 years old!"
Then sayde the Iewes vnto him: thou arte not yet.l. yere olde and hast thou sene Abraham?
The Yehudim therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Avraham?"
Then the Jews said to him, "You are not even fifty years old, yet you have seen Abraham?"Abraham has seen you?">[fn]
So the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?"
They said to him, "You have never seen Abraham! You are not even fifty years old."
The Jews therefore said to him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?
Then said the Jews to him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
Then said the Jews to him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
"You are not yet fifty years old," cried the Jews, "and have you seen Abraham?"
Thanne the Jewis seiden to hym, Thou hast not yit fifti yeer, and hast thou seien Abraham?
The Jews therefore said unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
Then the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?"
Then the Jews said to Him, "You are not even fifty years old, and You [claim to] have seen Abraham?"
The Jews therefore said unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
Then the Jews said to him, You are not fifty years old; have you seen Abraham?
"Why, you're not yet fifty years old," the Judeans replied, "and you have seen Avraham?"
The Jews therefore said to him, Thou hast not yet fifty years, and hast thou seen Abraham?
The Jihudoyee said to him, Yet the son of fifty years thou art not, and Abraham hast thou seen ?
The Jews say to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
Then said the Iewes vnto him, Thou art not yet fiftie yeeres olde, and hast thou seene Abraham?
The people said, "You aren't even fifty years old. How can you say you have seen Abraham?"
The Jews said to Jesus, "You are not even fifty years old. How could you have seen Abraham?"
Then the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
Then sayd ye Iewes vnto him, Thou art not yet fiftie yeere olde, & hast thou seene Abraham?
The Jews said to him, You are not yet fifty years old, and yet have you seen Abraham?
The Jews, therefore, said unto him - Fifty years old, not yet art thou, and, Abraham, hast thou seen?
The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old. And hast thou seen Abraham?
The Jews then said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
Then sayde the Iewes vnto hym: Thou art not yet fiftie yeres olde, & hast thou seene Abraham.
They said to him, "You are not even fifty years old—and you have seen Abraham?"
The Jews replied, “You aren’t fifty years old yet, and you’ve seen Abraham?”
Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
Then the Jews said to Him, You do not yet have fifty years, and have You seen Abraham?
The Jews, therefore, said unto him, `Thou art not yet fifty years old, and Abraham hast thou seen?'
Then sayde the Iewes vnto him: Thou art not yet fiftie yeare olde, and hast thou sene Abraham?
then said the Jews to him, you are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?
The Jews said, "You're not even fifty years old—and Abraham saw you?"
Then the Judeans replied, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?"
Then the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?"
"You are less than fifty years old," they sneered. "How could you have seen Abraham?"
So the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?"
So the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?"
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Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then said the Jews unto him, thou art not yet fifty years old,.... One copy reads forty, but he was not that; no, not much more than thirty; not above two or three and thirty years old: the reason of their fixing on this age of fifty might be, because Christ might look like such an one, being a man of sorrows and acquainted with griefs, as well as of great gravity; or they might be free in allowing him as many years, as could be thought he should be of, and gain their point; for what were fifty years, when Abraham had been dead above two thousand? and therefore he could never see Abraham, nor Abraham see him; moreover, this age of fifty, is often spoken of by the Jews, and much observed; at the age of fifty, a man is fit to give counsel, they say a; hence the Levites were dismissed from service at that age, it being more proper for them then to give advice, than to bear burdens; a Methurgeman, or an interpreter in a congregation, was not chosen under fifty years of age b; and if a man died before he was fifty, this was called the death of cutting off c; a violent death, a death inflicted by God, as a punishment; Christ lived not to that age, he was now many years short of it:
and hast thou seen Abraham? if he had not, Abraham had seen him, in the sense before given, and in which Christ asserted it, and it is to be understood.
a Pirke Abot, c. 5. sect. 21. b T. Bab. Chagiga, fol. 14. 1. Juchasin, fol. 44. 2. c T. Hieros. Biccurim, fol. 64. 3. T. Bab. Moed Katon, fol. 28. 1. Macsecheth Semachot, c. 3. sect. 9. Kimchi in Isa. xxxviii. 10.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Fifty years old - Jesus is supposed to have been at this time about the age of 33. It is remarkable that when he was so young they should have mentioned the number 50, but they probably designed to prevent the possibility of a reply. Had they said 40 they might have apprehended a reply, or could not be so certain that they were correct.
Hast thou seen Abraham? - It is remarkable, also, that they perverted his words. His affirmation was not that he had seen Abraham, but that Abraham had seen his day. The design of Jesus was to show that he was greater than Abraham, John 8:53. To do this, he says that Abraham, great as he was, earnestly desired to see his time, thus acknowledging his inferiority to the Messiah. The Jews perverted this, and affirmed that it was impossible that he and Abraham should have seen each other.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse John 8:57. Thou art not yet fifty years old — Some MSS. read forty. The age of our blessed Lord has never been properly determined. Some of the primitive fathers believed that he was fifty years old when he was crucified; but their foundation, which is no other than these words of the Jews, is but a very uncertain one. Calmet thinks that our Lord was at this time about thirty-four years and ten months old, and that he was crucified about the middle of his thirty-sixth year; and asserts that the vulgar era is three years too late. On the other hand, some allow him to have been but thirty-one years old, and that his ministry had lasted but one year. Many opinions on this subject, which are scarcely worthy of being copied, may be found in Calmet.
