48. The Yehuḏim answered and said to Him, “Do we not say well that You are a Shomeronite and have a demon?”
49. יהושע answered, “I do not have a demon, but I value My Father, and you do not value Me.
50. “And I do not seek My own esteem, there is One who is seeking and is judging.
51. “Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone guards My Word he shall never see death at all.”
52. The Yehuḏim said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon! Aḇraham died, and the prophets. And You say, ‘If anyone guards My Word he shall never taste death at all.’
53. “Are You greater than our father Aḇraham, who died? And the prophets died. Whom do You make Yourself?”
54. יהושע answered, “If I esteem Myself, My esteem is none at all. It is My Father who esteems Me, of whom you say that He is your Elohim.
55. “And you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be like you, a liar. But I do know Him and I guard His Word.
56. “Your father Aḇraham was glad that he should see My day, and he saw it and did rejoice.”
57. The Yehuḏim, therefore, said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Aḇraham?”
58. יהושע said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Aḇraham came to be, I am.”
59. Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him, but יהושע was hidden and went out of the Set-apart Place, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.