Rejoiced (ηγαλλιασατο). First aorist middle indicative of αγαλλιαομα, a word of Hellenistic coinage from αγαλλομα, to rejoice.

Your father Abraham. The testimony of Abraham is cited by Jesus because the Jews considered it a significant honor to be his descendants (…

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day.—They had asked in scorn if He were greater than their father Abraham ([Refere…

I know that you are Abraham's seed; yet you seek to kill me, because my word does not have free course in you. I speak the things which I have …

St. Gregory the Great: Just as it is necessary that the good should grow better through insult, so the wicked are made worse by…

Jesus claimed that Abraham had a preview of his ministry and had rejoiced in it. This probably refers to the promise God gave to Abraham that his s…

Your father Abraham. He grants to them, in words only, what he formerly took from them: that Abraham is their father. But he show…

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day Or "he was desirous to see my day", as the Syriac and Arabic versions rightly …

Christ and all who are His depend on God for honor. People may be able to dispute about God, yet may not know Him. Those who do not know God and do…

1. Above, our Lord had promised two things to his followers: liberation from darkne and the attainment of life, saying, he who follows m…