56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.


In Context

53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom make you yourself?

54 Jesus answered, If I honor myself, my honor is nothing: it is my Father that honors me; of whom you say, that he is your God:

55 Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like to you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

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

57 Then said the Jews to him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?

58 Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am.

John 8:56 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw [it,] and was glad.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:56Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it, and was glad.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:56Your father Abraham exulted in that he should see my day, and he saw and rejoiced.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:56Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.'