SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:57
Le dijeron entonces los judíos: An no tienes cincuenta aos, ¿y has visto a Abraham?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - John 8:57
Verse 57. Thou art not yet fifty years old] Some MSS. read forty. The age of our blessed Lord has never been properly determined. Some of the primitive fathers believed that he was fifty years old when he was crucified; but their foundation, which is no other than these words of the Jews, is but a very uncertain one. Calmet thinks that our Lord was at this time about thirty-four years and ten months old, and that he was crucified about the middle of his thirty-sixth year; and asserts that the vulgar era is three years too late. On the other hand, some allow him to have been but thirty-one years old, and that his ministry had lasted but one year. Many opinions on this subject, which are scarcely worthy of being copied, may be found in Calmet.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 57. Then said the Jews unto him, thou art not yet fifty years old , etc.] One copy reads forty, but he was not that; no, not much more than thirty; not above two or three and thirty years old: the reason of their fixing on this age of fifty might be, because Christ might look like such an one, being a man of sorrows and acquainted with griefs, as well as of great gravity; or they might be free in allowing him as many years, as could be thought he should be of, and gain their point; for what were fifty years, when Abraham had been dead above two thousand? and therefore he could never see Abraham, nor Abraham see him; moreover, this age of fifty, is often spoken of by the Jews, and much observed; at the age of fifty, a man is fit to give counsel, they say f407 ; hence the Levites were dismissed from service at that age, it being more proper for them then to give advice, than to bear burdens; a Methurgeman, or an interpreter in a congregation, was not chosen under fifty years of age f408 ; and if a man died before he was fifty, this was called the death of cutting off f409 ; a violent death, a death inflicted by God, as a punishment; Christ lived not to that age, he was now many years short of it: and hast thou seen Abraham ? if he had not, Abraham had seen him, in the sense before given, and in which Christ asserted it, and it is to be understood.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 54-59 - Christ and all that are his, depend upon God for honour. Men may be able to dispute about God, yet may not know him. Such as know not God and obey not the gospel of Christ, are put together, 2Th 1:8. All wh rightly know anything of Christ, earnestly desire to know more of him Those who discern the dawn of the light of the Sun of Righteousness wish to see his rising. "Before Abraham was, I AM." This speaks Abraha a creature, and our Lord the Creator; well, therefore, might he make himself greater than Abraham. I AM, is the name of God, Ex 3:14; it speaks his self-existence; he is the First and the Last, ever the same Re 1:8. Thus he was not only before Abraham, but before all worlds, P 8:23; Joh 1:1. As Mediator, he was the appointed Messiah, long befor Abraham; the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, Re 13:8. The Lord Jesus was made of God Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, an Redemption, to Adam, and Abel, and all that lived and died by faith in him, before Abraham. The Jews were about to stone Jesus for blasphemy but he withdrew; by his miraculous power he passed through them unhurt Let us stedfastly profess what we know and believe concerning God; an if heirs of Abraham's faith, we shall rejoice in looking forward to that day when the Saviour shall appear in glory, to the confusion of his enemies, and to complete the salvation of all who believe in him __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
ειπον 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3P ουν 3767 CONJ οι 3588 T-NPM ιουδαιοι 2453 A-NPM προς 4314 PREP αυτον 846 P-ASM πεντηκοντα 4004 A-NUI ετη 2094 N-APN ουπω 3768 ADV εχεις 2192 5719 V-PAI-2S και 2532 CONJ αβρααμ 11 N-PRI εωρακας 3708 5758 V-RAI-2S-ATT
Vincent's NT Word Studies
57. Thou art not yet fifty years old (penthkonta eth oupw eceiv). Literally, thou hast not yet fifty years. The age of completed manhood. Hast thou seen. Again misquoting the Lord's words.
