53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the Prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?

54 [a]Jesus answered, If I honor myself, mine honor is [b]nothing worth: it is my Father that honoreth me, whom ye say, that he is your God.

55 [c]Yet ye have not known him: but I know him, and if I should say I know him not, I should be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his word.

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:54 There is nothing farther off from all ambition than Christ, but his Father hath set him above all things.
  2. John 8:54 This is spoken by manner of [a grant]: as if he had said, Be it so, let this report which I give of myself, be of no force: yet there is another that glorifieth me, that is, that honoreth my Name.
  3. John 8:55 There is no right knowledge of God, without Christ, neither any right knowledge of Christ without his word.

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