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54 Jesus answered, a“If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. bIt is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is1 your God.  
55 Yet ayou have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be a liar like you; but I do know Him and bkeep His word.  
56 Your father Abraham arejoiced to see My day, band he saw it and was glad.”  
57 Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, abefore Abraham was, bI AM.”  
59 Then athey took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, bgoing through the midst of them, and so passed by. 
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John 8:56

Rejoiced (hgalliasato). First aorist middle indicative of agalliaomai, a word of Hellenistic coinage from agallomai, to rejoice.

To see (ina idh). Sub-final use of ina and second aorist active subjunctive of oraw. This joy of Abraham is referred to in Hebrews 11:13 (saluting, aspasamenoi, the promises from afar). There was a Jewish tradition that Abraham saw the whole history of his descendants in the vision of Genesis 15:6 f., but that is not necessary here. He did look for and welcome the Messianic time, "my day" (thn hmeran thn emhn). "He saw it, and was glad" (eiden kai exarh). Second aorist active indicative of oraw and second aorist passive indicative of xairw. Ye see it and are angry!




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 8:56:

John 5:46
John 12:41
Hebrews 11:13

 

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