John 8:57 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Christ was at this time but three and thirty years old, and upward: they dream of Abraham's seeing him, and his seeing Abraham, with bodily eyes, of which Christ said nothing; that indeed had been a thing impossible, for Abraham was dead many hundred years before Christ appeared in the flesh to the world: neither doth our Saviour say, that he had seen Abraham, or that Abraham had seen him; but that he had seen his day, his coming in the flesh, his death, which Abraham had seen, not with bodily eyes, but with the eye of faith.

John 8:57

57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?