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Abraham died, and the prophets died, yet you say that whoever obeys your teaching will never die. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/john/8-52.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/john/8-52.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/john/8-52.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/john/1.htm">John</a> > <a href="/gntd/john/8.htm">Chapter 8</a> > Verse 52</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/8-51.htm" title="John 8:51">◄</a> John 8:52 <a href="../john/8-53.htm" title="John 8:53">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/john/8.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/john/8.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />They said to him, "Now we know for sure that you have a demon! Abraham died, and the prophets died, yet you say that whoever obeys your teaching will never die. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/john/8.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; yet you say, ‘Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.’<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/john/8.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Then the people said, "Now we are sure that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and so are the prophets. How can you say that no one who obeys your words will ever die? <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/john/8.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />[So] the Jews said to him, “Now we are sure that you are possessed. Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.’<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/john/8.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets: and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shall not taste death for ever.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets: and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shall not taste death for ever.</p><p class="hdg">Now.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/8-48.htm">John 8:48</a> The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/9-24.htm">John 9:24</a> They therefore called the man again that had been blind and said to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.</p><p class="hdg">Abraham.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../zechariah/1-5.htm">Zechariah 1:5,6</a> Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live always? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/11-13.htm">Hebrews 11:13</a> All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.</p><p class="hdg">taste.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/2-9.htm">Hebrews 2:9</a> But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through the grace of God he might taste death for all.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/john/8.htm">Before Abraham was Born, I Am</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">51</span>Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever. <span class="reftext">52</span><span class="highl">The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets: and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shall not taste death for ever.</span> <span class="reftext">53</span>Art thou greater than our father Abraham who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself?…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../zechariah/1-5.htm">Zechariah 1:5</a></span><br />Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live always?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/11-18.htm">Matthew 11:18</a></span><br />For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: He hath a devil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/1-19.htm">John 1:19</a></span><br />And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/7-20.htm">John 7:20</a></span><br />Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/8-22.htm">John 8:22</a></span><br />The Jews therefore said: Will he kill himself, because he said: Whither I go you cannot come?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/8-51.htm">John 8:51</a></span><br />Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/8-55.htm">John 8:55</a></span><br />And you have not known him: but I know him. And if I shall say that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him and do keep his word.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/14-23.htm">John 14:23</a></span><br />Jesus answered and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep my word. And my Father will love him and we will come to him and will make our abode with him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/15-20.htm">John 15:20</a></span><br />Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/17-6.htm">John 17:6</a></span><br />I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were: and to me thou gavest them. And they have kept thy word.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hebrews/2-9.htm">Hebrews 2:9</a></span><br />But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through the grace of God he might taste death for all.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/john/8-41.htm">Abraham</a> <a href="/john/8-51.htm">Case</a> <a href="/john/6-58.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/john/8-51.htm">Death</a> <a href="/john/8-49.htm">Demon</a> <a href="/john/8-48.htm">Demon-Possessed</a> <a href="/john/8-49.htm">Devil</a> <a href="/john/6-58.htm">Died</a> <a href="/john/8-49.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/john/1-29.htm">Exclaimed</a> <a href="/john/8-48.htm">Jews</a> <a href="/john/8-51.htm">Keeps</a> <a href="/john/8-51.htm">Obeyed</a> <a href="/john/8-49.htm">Possessed</a> <a href="/john/6-45.htm">Prophets</a> <a href="/luke/6-38.htm">sed</a> <a href="/john/8-49.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/luke/14-34.htm">Taste</a> <a href="/john/8-51.htm">Teaching</a> <a href="/john/8-51.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/john/8-53.htm">Abraham</a> <a href="/john/15-22.htm">Case</a> <a href="/john/8-53.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/john/10-10.htm">Death</a> <a href="/john/10-20.htm">Demon</a> <a href="/john/10-20.htm">Demon-Possessed</a> <a href="/john/10-20.htm">Devil</a> <a href="/john/8-53.htm">Died</a> <a href="/john/10-20.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/john/11-8.htm">Exclaimed</a> <a href="/john/8-57.htm">Jews</a> <a href="/john/14-21.htm">Keeps</a> <a href="/john/15-10.htm">Obeyed</a> <a href="/john/10-20.htm">Possessed</a> <a href="/john/8-53.htm">Prophets</a> <a href="/matthew/8-28.htm">sed</a> <a href="/john/10-20.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/acts/23-14.htm">Taste</a> <a href="/john/9-34.htm">Teaching</a> <a href="/john/8-55.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/john/8-52.htm">John 8:52 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/john/8-52.htm">John 8:52 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/john/8-52.htm">John 8:52 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/john/8-52.htm">John 8:52 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/john/8-52.htm">John 8:52 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/john/8-52.htm">John 8:52 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/john/8-52.htm">John 8:52 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/john/8-52.htm">John 8:52 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/john/8-52.htm">John 8:52 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a Abraham also and anyone are At death death' demon demon-possessed did died exclaimed have he Him if Jews keeps know My never Now of prophets said say so taste that the this to we will word yet you your<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/8-52.htm">NT Gospels: John 8:52 Then the Jews said to him Now (Jhn Jo Jn) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/8-51.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 8:51"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 8:51" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/8-53.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 8:53"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 8:53" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>