“"Thou art not yet forty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?" So that we conclude that Christ was nearly forty.”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Gospel of John 55
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57Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
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55Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
— John 8:57 —
58Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
59Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.