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  "pericope": "Before Abraham was, I am",
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      "v": 48,
      "text": "Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”"
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      "text": "Jesus answered,"
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      "text": "“I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.",
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      "v": 50,
      "text": "But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.",
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      "text": "Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”",
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      "text": "Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say,"
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      "v": 52,
      "text": "‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’",
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      "text": "Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”"
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      "text": "Jesus answered,"
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      "text": "“If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.",
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      "text": "You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.",
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      "text": "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.”",
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      "text": "The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”"
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      "text": "Jesus said to them,"
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      "text": "“Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”",
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      "text": "Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by."
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      "text": "Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?"
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      "text": "I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.",
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      "text": "And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.",
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      "text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.",
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      "text": "Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death."
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      "v": 53,
      "text": "Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?"
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      "v": 55,
      "text": "Yet 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.",
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      "text": "Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?"
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      "text": "Then 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."
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