Blacks
and Jews Quotes and Facts
When assessing the relationship between Blacks and Jews, one
need not resort to vicious name-calling or opprobrious epithets.
One need only to present the facts. World Jewry apologizes to
no one when they cite historical precedent as a guide for their
future relationships with any people. The historical record is
clearer than the muddled pronouncements of a reactionary and
controlled media. None of the critics of The Secret Relationship
have been able to re-write the history showing a history of "friendship"
between Blacks and Jews. They are forced to succumb to the tragic
reality that nearly every one of their colonial fathers hated
Black people and participated in the robbing of their humanity.
Those who have felt that there was some "special" relationship
which carried with it a "special" right to criticize
and control Black leadership can no longer make such a claim.
The following is a guide for informed analysis. (See also "Open Letter to Cornel West"
by the African United Front for a litany of issues raised by
Blacks about Jewish behavior. See also Professor Tony Martin's
Broadsides.)
About Civil Rights
A Rabbi, 1956
"What our friends in the North do not fully appreciate is
the fact that there is no difference between most of the Jews
and their Christian neighbors in their attitudes toward the Negro.
This is not a by-product of antisemitism, but an honest conviction.
For these Jews desegregation presents not merely a school problem,
but also a problem of the mixing of races."
Martin Luther
King, Jr.
"A special and unique
relationship to Jews"
When we were working in Chicago, we had
numerous rent strikes on the West Side, and it was unfortunately
true that, in most instances, the persons we had to conduct these
strikes against were Jewish landlords. There was a time when the
West Side of Chicago was a Jewish ghetto, and when the Jewish
community started moving out into other areas, they still owned
the property there, and all of the problems of the landlord came
into being.
We were living in a slum apartment owned
by a Jew and a number of others, and we had to have a rent strike.
We were paying $94 for four run-down, shabby rooms, and we would
go out on our open housing marches on Gage Park and other places
and we discovered that whites with five sanitary, nice, new rooms,
apartments with five rooms, were paying only $78 a month. We were
paying 20 percent tax.
The Negro ends up paying a color tax, and
this has happened in instances where Negroes actually confronted
Jews as the landlord or the storekeeper. The irrational statements
that have been made are the result of these confrontations.
Clayborne Carson, ed., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King,
Jr. (New York: Warner Books, 1998), p. 309.
Black Slavery
Rabbi Marc
Lee Raphael
"Jews also took an active part in the Dutch colonial slave
trade; indeed, the bylaws of the Recife and Mauricia congregations
(1648) included an imposta (Jewish tax) of five soldos
for each Negro slave a Brazilian Jew purchased from the West Indies
Company. Slave auctions were postponed if they fell on a Jewish
holiday. In Curacao in the seventeenth century, as well as in
the British colonies of Barbados and Jamaica in the eighteenth
century, Jewish merchants played a major role in the slave trade.
In fact, in all the American colonies, whether French (Martinique),
British, or Dutch, Jewish merchants frequently dominated.
"This was no less true on the North American mainland, where
during the eighteenth century Jews participated in the 'triangular
trade' that brought slaves from Africa to the West Indies and
there exchanged them for molasses, which in turn was taken to
New England and converted into rum for sale in Africa. Isaac Da
Costa of Charleston in the 1750's, David Franks of Philadelphia
in the 1760's, and Aaron Lopez of Newport in the late 1760's and
early 1770's dominated Jewish slave trading on the American continent."
Jews
and Judaism in the United States a Documentary History (New
York: Behrman House, Inc., Pub, 1983), p. 14. Rabbi Marc Lee
Raphael is the Nathan and Sophia Gumenick Professor of Judaic
Studies, Professor of Religion, and Chair, Department of Religion,
The College of William and Mary, and a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson
College, Oxford University. He has been the editor of the quarterly
journal, American Jewish History, for 19 years, and a visiting
professor at Brown University, the University of Pittsburgh, HUC-JIR,
UCLA, and Case Western Reserve University. He came to The College
of William and Mary in 1989 after 20 years at Ohio State University.
He is the author of many books on Jews and Judaism in America,
and his most recent publication (with his wife Linda Schermer
Raphael) is When Night Fell: An Anthology of Holocaust Short
Stories (Rutgers University Press, 1999). He is now writing
Judaism in America for the Contemporary American Series
of Columbia University Press.
Visit
him at the website of his synagoge, Bet Aviv, in Columbia, Maryland.
Ira
Rosenwaike
"In Charleston, Richmond and Savannah the large majority
(over three-fourths) of the Jewish households contained one or
more slaves; in Baltimore, only one out of three households were
slaveholding; in New York, one out of eighteen....Among the slaveholding
households the median number of slaves owned ranged from five
in Savannah to one in New York." "The Jewish Population
in 1820," in Abraham J. Karp, ed., The Jewish Experience
in America: Selected Studies from the Publications of the American
Jewish Historical Society (Waltham, Massachusetts, 1969, 3 volumes),
volume 2, pp. 2, 17, 19.
Cecil
Roth
"The Jews of the Joden Savanne [Surinam] were also foremost
in the suppression of the successive negro revolts, from 1690
to 1722: these as a matter of fact were largely directed against
them, as being the greatest slave-holders of the region."
History of the Marranos (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication
Society of America, 1932), p. 292.
Jacob Rader Marcus
"All through the eighteenth century, into the early nineteenth,
Jews in the North were to own black servants; in the South, the
few plantations owned by Jews were tilled with slave labor. In
1820, over 75 percent of all Jewish families in Charleston, Richmond,
and Savannah owned slaves, employed as domestic servants; almost
40 percent of all Jewish householders in the United States owned
one slave or more. There were no protests against slavery as such
by Jews in the South, where they were always outnumbered at least
100 to 1....But very few Jews anywhere in the United States protested
against chattel slavery on moral grounds." United States
Jewry, 1776-1985 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989),
p. 586.
Jacob Rader Marcus
Marcus describes the mockery of the Indian by Hyam Myer's "Wild
West Show" in his book, The Colonial American Jew:
"[Myer sought] formal permission to exhibit some Mohawks
in Europe. Myers sailed with the Indians before the proper certificate
was forthcoming from the Indian Commissioner, and had already
begun to parade them in Holland and in the taverns of London when
the Lords of Trade urged Lieutenant-Governor Cadwallader Colden
in New York to have Johnson put an end to the undertaking. From
all indications Myers made no money on his grand European tour,
for he ended up owing the Indians money - or refusing to pay them.
Then, as now, there was "no business like show business!"
Isaac
Mayer Wise, the leader of the American
Reform Jews, wrote of the California Indians:
"...though not total savages, [they] are very primitive and
ignorant....[They do] nothing besides loafing and begging....They
catch trout in the river, and then sell them to buy ammunition,
shoot rabbits, birds, eat various roots and wild plants, also
snakes, frogs, dogs, cats, and rats, and say, 'Me work no.' In
conversation with several of them I found that they have no particular
home and are heathens."
The
American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society Report of 1853
"The Jews of the United States have never taken any steps
whatever with regard to the slavery question. As citizens, they
deem it their policy to have every one choose which ever side
he may deem best to promote his own interests and the welfare
of his country. They have no organization of an ecclesiastical
body to represent their general views; no General Assembly, or
its equivalent. The American Jews have two newspapers, but they
do not interfere in any discussion which is not material to their
religion. It cannot be said that the Jews have formed any denominational
opinion on the subject of American slavery....The objects of so
much mean prejudice and unrighteous oppression as the Jews have
been for ages, surely they, it would seem, more than any other
denomination, ought to be the enemies of caste, and friends of
universal freedom."
Rabbi Bertram W.
Korn
"It would seem to be realistic to conclude that any Jew who
could afford to own slaves and had need for their services would
do so....Jews participated in every aspect and process of the
exploitation of the defenseless blacks."
"Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789-1865,"
in Abraham J. Karp, The Jewish Experience in America: Selected
Studies from the Publications of the American Jewish Historical
Society (Waltham, Massachusetts, 1969), pp. 184, 189. [Dr.
Korn is a rabbi, historian; A.B., Cincinnati, 1939; Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ordination M.H.L.
1949; Sr. rabbi, Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Elkins Park,
Pennsylvania, 1949-; Chaplain, USNR, 1944-; Visiting professor,
American Jewish History, Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion,
New York, 1962-; Honorary Overseer Gratz College of Pennsylvania;
visiting professor, American Jewish History, Dropsie University
of Pennsylvania; 1970-; Recipient Merit Award, American Association
for State & Local History, 1969.]
Louis Epstein, author
of Sex Laws and Customs in Judaism:
"The female slave was a sex tool beneath the level of moral
considerations. She was an economic good, useful, in addition
to her menial labor, for breeding more slaves. To attain that
purpose, the master mated her promiscuously according to his breeding
plans. The master himself and his sons and other members of his
household took turns with her for the increase of the family wealth,
as well as for satisfaction of their extra-marital sex desires.
Guests and neighbors too were invited to that luxury."
Seymour
B. Liebman
"They came with ships carrying African blacks to be sold
as slaves. The traffic in slaves was a royal monopoly, and the
Jews were often appointed as agents for the Crown in their sale....[They]
were the largest ship chandlers in the entire Caribbean region,
where the shipping business was mainly a Jewish enterprise....The
ships were not only owned by Jews, but were manned by Jewish crews
and sailed under the command of Jewish captains."
New World Jewry 1493-1825: Requiem for the Forgotten (KTAV,
New York, 1982), pp. 170, 183. [Liebman is an attorney; LL.B.,
St. Lawrence University, 1929; M.A. (Latin American history),
Mexico City College, 1963; Florida chapter American Jewish Historical
Society, 1956-58; Friends of Hebrew University, 1958-59; American
Historical Society Contributor to scholarly journals on Jewish
history.
Herbert
I. Bloom
"The Christian inhabitants [of Brazil] were envious because
the Jews owned some of the best plantations in the river valley
of Pernambuco and were among the leading slave-holders and slave
traders in the colony."1
"Slave trade [sic] was one of the most important Jewish activities
here [in Surinam] as elsewhere in the colonies."2
1. , "A Study of Brazilian Jewish History 1623-1654, Based
Chiefly Upon the Findings of the Late Samuel Oppenheim,"
Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society,
vol. 33 (1934), p. 63.
2. The Economic Activities of the Jews of Amsterdam in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Port Washington, New
York/London: Kennikat Press, 1937), p. 159.
[Bloom is a rabbi; B.A., Columbia University,
1923, Ph.D., 1937; M.H.L., Jewish Institute of Religion, 1928,
D.D., 1955; rabbi, Temple Albert, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1928-31.
President Kingston Ministerial Association, 1945-46, and 1959-60;
B'nai B'rith; Zionist Organization of America; vice-president,
National Prison Chaplain Board, since 1962; Social Action Committee
of Central Conference of American Rabbis, since 1947; Author:
The Jews of Dutch Brazil, 1936; The Economic Activities
of the Jews of Amsterdam, 1937.]
Arnold Wiznitzer
"The West India Company, which monopolized imports of slaves
from Africa, sold slaves at public auctions against cash payment.
It happened that cash was mostly in the hands of Jews. The buyers
who appeared at the auctions were almost always Jews, and because
of this lack of competitors they could buy slaves at low prices.
On the other hand, there also was no competition in the selling
of the slaves to the plantation owners and other buyers, and most
of them purchased on credit payable at the next harvest in sugar.
Profits up to 300 percent of the purchase value were often realized
with high interest rates....If it happened that the date of such
an auction fell on a Jewish holiday the auction had to be postponed.
This occurred on Friday, October 21, 1644."
Jews in Colonial Brazil (1960), pp. 72-3; [Note: Wiznitzer,
Arnold Aharon, educator; Born in Austria, December 20, 1899; Ph.D.,
University of Vienna, 1920; Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Jewish
Theological Seminary of America; Emeritus research professor,
University of Judaism, Los Angeles; Contributor to historical
journals in the United States and Brazil including the Journal
of Jewish Social Studies and the Publications of the
American Jewish Historical Society. Former president, Brazilian-Jewish
Institute of Historical Research.]
Rabbi
Morris Raphall
"[I]t remains a fact which cannot be gainsaid that in his
own native home, and generally throughout the world, the unfortunate
negro is indeed the meanest of slaves. Much had been said respecting
the inferiority of his intellectual powers, and that no man of
his race has ever inscribed his name on the Parthenon of human
excellence, either mental or moral."
Jews in the South
W.E.B. DuBois, future
NAACP leader
"The Jew is the heir of the slave-baron in Dougherty [Georgia];
and as we ride westward, by wide stretching cornfields and stubby
orchards of peach and pear, we see on all sides within the circle
of dark forest a Land of Canaan. Here and there are tales of projects
for moneygetting, born in the swift days of Reconstruction'improvement'
companies, wine companies, mills and factories; nearly all failed,
and the Jew fell heir."
The Souls of Black Folk (1903) note: When DuBois tried
to republish the book in 1953, he succumbed to pressure to replace
the word "Jew" with "foreigner."
Jewish Racism
Moses Maimonides
The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Religion refers to Moses
Maimonides as "the symbol of the pure and orthodox faith."
His Guide to the Perplexed is considered the greatest work
of Jewish religious philosophy, but his view of Blacks was Hitlerian:
"[T]he Negroes found in the remote South, and those who resemble
them from among them that are with us in these climes. The status
of those is like that of irrational animals. To my mind they do
not have the rank of men, but have among the beings a rank lower
than the rank of man but higher than the rank of apes. For they
have the external shape and lineaments of a man and a faculty
of discernment that is superior to that of the apes."
Philadelphia Jewish weekly The Jewish
Record of January 23, 1863:
"We know not how to speak in the same breath of the Negro
and the Israelite. The very names have startlingly opposite sounds
one representing all that is debased and inferior in the
hopeless barbarity and heathenism of six thousand years the other,
the days when Jehovah conferred on our fathers the glorious equality
which led the Eternal to converse with them, and allow them to
enjoy the communion of angels. Thus the abandoned fanatics insult
the choice of God himself, in endeavoring to reverse the inferiority
which he stamped on the African, to make him the compeer, even
in bondage, of His chosen people.
"There is no parallel between such races. Humanity from pole
to pole would scout such a comparison. The Hebrew was originally
free and the charter of his liberty was inspired by his Creator.
The Negro was never free and his bondage in Africa was simply
duplicated in a milder form when he was imported here....The judicious
in all the earth agree that to proclaim the African equal to the
surrounding races, would be a farce which would lead the civilized
conservatism of the world to denounce the outrage."
Major
Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851)
He was considered the most distinguished
Jewish layman in his time. He was such a prolific proponent of
slavery, that the first Black American periodical, The Freedom's
Journal, was launched in response to Noah's racist propaganda.
He actually defended slavery by calling it liberty:
"There is liberty under the name of slavery. A field negro
has his cottage, his wife, and children, his easy task, his little
patch of corn and potatoes, his garden and fruit, which are his
revenue and property. The house servant has handsome clothing,
his luxurious meals, his admitted privacy, a kind master, and
an indulgent and frequently fond mistress."
He argued that "the bonds of society must be kept as they
now are" and that "To emancipate the slaves would be
to jeopardize the safety of the whole country." The Freedom's
Journal called Noah the Black man's "bitterest enemy"
and William
Lloyd Garrison, the leading White
abolitionist, called him the "lineal descendant of the monsters
who nailed Jesus to the cross."
Jews and Hollywood
Anti-Defamation
League Charter
"For a number of years a tendency has manifested itself in
American life toward the caricaturing and defaming of Jews on
the stage, in moving pictures. The effect of this on the unthinking
public has been to create an untrue and injurious impression of
an entire people and to expose the Jew to undeserved contempt,
and ridicule. The caricatures center around some idiosyncrasy
of the few which, by the thoughtless public, is often taken as
a pivotal characteristic of the entire people..."
Neal Gabler
Author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews invented Hollywood
"What is amazing is the extent to which they succeeded in
promulgating this fiction throughout the world. By making a "shadow"
America, one which idealized every old glorifying bromide about
the country, the Hollywood Jews created a powerful cluster of
images and ideas-so powerful that, in a sense, they colonized
the American imagination. . . . Ultimately, American values came
to be defined largely by the movies the Jews made."
Lester D. Friedman
Author of Hollywood's Image of the Jew
"Today, most people associate the blackface tradition with
minstrel shows, and more particularly with Al Jolson. In actuality,
many Jewish performers gained early and continued success using
it. Sophie Tucker was billed as the 'World Renowned Coon Shouter'
or more euphemistically as the 'Manipulator of Coon Melodies.'
Eddie Cantor played Salome in drag and blackface, while George
Burns often toured with an even more comically stylized blackface
than Jolson's. Later George Jessel often joined Eddie Cantor on
stage in various blackface routines...Indeed, it is too easy to
ignore the derogatory aspects of such activities, the unconscious
racism accepted and nourished by such cruel parodies, by citing
historical contexts. The undisguised elements of ridicule in such
blackface portrayals by Jews mimicking the outlandish stereotypes
of blacks now looks suspiciously like one group's desperate need
to assert its own superiority by mimicking another. Such a motivation
while perhaps unconscious is nonetheless hard to ignore."
Rob Reiner, Film Director 1992
"It's all run by Jews, even Disney.
That's funny, because Walt Disney was a terrible reactionary.
If he found out that Jeffrey Katzenberg were running his company,
he'd be spinning in his grave. That's a wonderful bit of poetic
justice."
Other Issues
B'nai B'rith
Magazine, May, 1925, vol. 39
:
Darktown
Rastus: Whuffo' yo' 'jeculate yoself to me in dat onery manner?
Cicero: Whoffo'? Nigguh, who do yo' calkerate yo' is?
Rastus: Yo' nigguh! mah family am quality folks an' ahm a pusson
of rank.
Cicero: Huh! ah'll have yo' triflin', Rastus, to know that ah'm
ranker than you is.
"Jokes" like these appeared regularly
in the B'nai B'rith Magazine even as the ADL fought this
kind of defamation of Jews.
Andrew
Goodman
"...it is true that the white man (and by this I mean Christian
civilization in general) has proved himself to be the most depraved
devil imaginable in his attitudes towards the Negro race....The
source and cause of this need for reaction can be attributed to
white contempt and neglect. The historical contempt that the white
race held for the Negroes has created a group of rootless degraded
people. The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this
deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute
a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we
are to preserve the society. The road to freedom must be uphill,
even if it is arduous and frustrating. A people must have dignity
and identity. If they can't do it peacefully, they will do it
defensively."
Elie Weisel,
Hate Teacher
"There is a time to love and a time to hate; whoever does
not hate when he should does not deserve to love when he should,
does not deserve to love when he is able. Perhaps, had we learned
to hate more during the years of ordeal, fate itself would have
taken fright. The Germans did their best to teach us, but we were
poor pupils in the discipline of hate....Every Jew, somewhere
in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy, virile
hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in
the German. To do otherwise would be a betrayal of the dead."
Legends of Our Time (1968), pp.177-78:
Compare and contrast with...
Adolf Hitler
Hitler HATED Black people. His comments are included here to compare
to the many Jewish notables discussed here. Here is a sampling
of Adolf Hitler's beliefs about the Black African:
"It does not dawn upon this depraved bourgeois world that
here one has actually to do with a sin against all reason; that
it is a criminal absurdity to train a born half-ape until one
believes a lawyer has been made of him, while millions of members
of the highest culture race have to remain in entirely unworthy
positions; that it is a sin against the will of the eternal Creator
to let hundreds and hundreds of thousands of His most talented
beings degenerate in the proletarian swamp of today, while Hottentots
and Zulu Kafirs are trained for intellectual vocations. For it
is training, exactly as that of the poodle, and not a scientific
'education'."
"In the most critical hour of our people, in the moment when
we, practically abandoned by all the world, made defenseless by
our own fault, have to watch France setting out to occupy new
territories, while African negroes rape our women and children,..."
"The black disgrace works havoc on the Rhine. Women, girls
and children pay for the bestial negroes' lust with their death.
An uninterrupted stream of poison and disease flows into the blood
of our people. Moroccan syphilis drives thousands of victims towards
a cruel death..."
"All great cultures of the past perished only because the
originally creative race died off through blood poisoning."
"...and one seeks compensation by success with Hottentots
and Zulu Kafirs, with the blessing of the Church. While our European
peoples, the Lord be praised and thanked, fall into a state of
physical and moral leprosy, the pious missionary wanders to Central
Africa and establishes negro missions, till there our 'higher
culture' will have turned healthy, though primitive and inferior,
human children into a foul breed of bastards."
"What we see before us of human culture today, the results
of art, science, and techniques, is almost exclusively the creative
produce of the Aryan....Without this possibility of utilizing
inferior men, the Aryan would never have been able to take the
first steps towards his later culture; exactly as, without the
help of various suitable animals which he knew how to tame, he
would never have arrived at a technology which now allows him
to do without these very animals. The words 'Der Mohr hat seine
Schuldigkeit getan, er kann gehen' (The Moor has done his duty,
he may go) has [sic] unfortunately too deep a meaning."
Robert A. Rockaway,
is a senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish History at Tel
Aviv University.
"After the first World War, Jewish
Gangsters became major figures in the American underworld and
played prominent roles in the creation and extension of organized
crime in the United States. During Prohibition fifty percent of
the leading bootleggers were Jews, and Jewish criminals financed
and directed much of the nations narcotics traffic. Jews also
dominated illicit activities in a number of America's largest
cities, including Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, New
York, and Philadelphia."
Prof. Selwyn Cudjoe:
"The
position then is very clear, Zionism is racist, it is colonial
and perforce expansionist...it constitutes an intolerable and
repulsive ideological position that is detrimental to peace in
the world. It must be equated with South African apartheid."
- Wellesley College Prof. Selwyn Cudjoe
in the Trinidad Guardian, 1975, as quoted in the Trinidad
Guardian, May 22, 2000, p.13. Cudjoe was the "responsible"
negro-on-duty representing the Jews at Wellesley College in their
attack on Prof. Tony Martin. His shameless angling for Jewish
rewards is now exposed.
- Jesus Christ
Joh:8:31: Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed
on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
Joh:8:32: And ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free.
Joh:8:33: They answered him, We be Abraham's seed,
and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
Joh:8:34: Jesus answered them, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
Joh:8:35: And the servant abideth not in the house
for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
Joh:8:36: If the Son therefore shall make you free,
ye shall be free indeed.
Joh:8:37: I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but
ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
Joh:8:38: I speak that which I have seen with
my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
Joh:8:39: They answered and said unto him, Abraham
is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do
the works of Abraham.
Joh:8:40: But now ye seek to kill me, a man that
hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did
not Abraham.
Joh:8:41: Ye do the deeds of your father. Then
said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Joh:8:42: Jesus said unto them, If God were your
Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself,
but he sent me.
Joh:8:43: Why do ye not understand my speech?
even because ye cannot hear my word.
Joh:8:44: Ye are of your father the devil, and
the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie,
he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father
of it.
Joh:8:45: And because I tell you the truth, ye
believe me not.
Joh:8:46: Which of you convinceth me of sin? And
if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
Joh:8:47: He that is of God heareth God's words:
ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
Joh:8:48: Then answered the Jews, and said unto
him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
Joh:8:49: Jesus answered, I have not a devil;
but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
Joh:8:50: And I seek
not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
Joh:8:51: Verily, verily,
I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Joh:8:52: 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.
Joh:8:53: Art thou greater than our father Abraham,
which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
Joh:8:54: Jesus answered, If I honour myself,
my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
Joh:8:55: 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.
Joh:8:56: Your father Abraham rejoiced to see
my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
Joh:8:57: Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art
not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
Joh:8:58: Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Joh:8:59: 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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