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801. Period of Maturity (#98335)
801. Period of Maturity
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James M. Freeman
Narrator:
Chris Genthree
John 8:57
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John 8:57
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Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? (John 8:57)
. Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
The Jews considered fifty years as a period of maturity in human life. The expression in the text is therefore not to be considered, as some have strangely done, to imply that Jesus was nearly fifty years old at this time, but simply that, still being a young man, it was impossible that he could have seen Abraham.
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