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.