54 “If I glorify myself,” Jesus answered, “my glory is nothing. My Father—about whom you say, ‘He is our God’—he is the one who glorifies me. 55 You do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say I don’t know him,ab I would be a liar like you. But I do know him,ac and I keep his word. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw itad and was glad.”

57 The Jews replied, “You aren’t fifty years old yet, and you’ve seen Abraham?”F

58 Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”ae

59 So they picked up stonesaf to throw at him.ag But Jesus was hiddenG,ah and went out of the temple.H,ai