John 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad."

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad."

English Standard Version
Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.”

New American Standard Bible
"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad."

King James Bible
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your father Abraham was overjoyed that he would see My day; he saw it and rejoiced."

International Standard Version
Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

American Standard Version
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it, and was glad.

Darby Bible Translation
Your father Abraham exulted in that he should see my day, and he saw and rejoiced.

Young's Literal Translation
Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.'

Cross References

Matthew 13:17
For truly I say to you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.

John 8:37
I know that you are Abraham's seed; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.

John 8:39
They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

John 10:25
Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

8:54-59 Christ and all that are his, depend upon God for honour. Men may be able to dispute about God, yet may not know him. Such as know not God, and obey not the gospel of Christ, are put together, 2Th 1:8. All who rightly know anything of Christ, earnestly desire to know more of him. Those who discern the dawn of the light of the Sun of Righteousness, wish to see his rising. Before Abraham was, I AM. This speaks Abraham a creature, and our Lord the Creator; well, therefore, might he make himself greater than Abraham. I AM, is the name of God, Ex 3:14; it speaks his self-existence; he is the First and the Last, ever the same, Re 1:8. Thus he was not only before Abraham, but before all worlds, Pr 8:23; Joh 1:1. As Mediator, he was the appointed Messiah, long before Abraham; the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, Re 13:8. The Lord Jesus was made of God Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption, to Adam, and Abel, and all that lived and died by faith in him, before Abraham. The Jews were about to stone Jesus for blasphemy, but he withdrew; by his miraculous power he passed through them unhurt. Let us stedfastly profess what we know and believe concerning God; and if heirs of Abraham's faith, we shall rejoice in looking forward to that day when the Saviour shall appear in glory, to the confusion of his enemies, and to complete the salvation of all who believe in him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

56. Abraham rejoiced to see my day, &c.—exulted, or exceedingly rejoiced that he should see, he exulted to see it, that is, by anticipation. Nay,

he saw it, and was glad—he actually beheld it, to his joy. If this mean no more than that he had a prophetic foresight of the gospel-day—the second clause just repeating the first—how could the Jews understand our Lord to mean that He "had seen Abraham?" And if it mean that Abraham was then beholding, in his disembodied spirit, the incarnate Messiah [Stier, Alford, &c.], the words seem very unsuitable to express it. It expresses something past—"he saw My day, and was glad," that is, surely while he lived. He seems to refer to the familiar intercourse which Abraham had with God, who is once and again in the history called "the Angel of the Lord," and whom Christ here identifies with Himself. On those occasions, Abraham "saw ME" (Olshausen, though he thinks the reference is to some unrecorded scene). If this be the meaning, all that follows is quite natural.