55. You have never known him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his word.
56. Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see the time of my coming; he saw it and was glad.”
57. They said to him, “You are not even fifty years old — and you have seen Abraham?”
58. “I am telling you the truth,” Jesus replied. “Before Abraham was born, ‘I Am’.”