Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hey, everyone, welcome back to another

episode of the Year in the Bible podcast. My name is Alexa and I'm joined with my co-host, Beth.

Hello, everyone. Today we are diving into our New Testament passage for this week. Yes, we are taking a look at John 8, 57 through 59, which says,

the Jews replied, you aren't 50 years old yet, and you've seen Abraham.

Jesus said to them, truly I tell you before Abraham was, I am.

So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple.

So Beth, how did it go for you annotating this passage?

Yeah, this first was so fun to annotate.

I especially found the prompt that had us read the verses that came before this passage,

really helpful and insightful, because they gave me a better idea of the context of what's going on here.

And so what I learned from that was that the Pharisees were questioning Jesus' authority,

and they were accusing him of

blaspheming Abraham, who was like their esteemed patriarch, the father of all of them. So what Jesus is

saying here is that not only did the father give him authority over Abraham, but that he actually

has existed longer than Abraham, which is shocking and confusing for multiple reasons.

The first is that Jesus has only been alive for about 30-ish years, and the Pharisees knew that.

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