Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop and Doctor

3Abram fell prone on his face. 4And God said to him: “I AM, and my covenant is with you, and you will be the father of many nations. 5No longer will your name be called Abram. But you will be called Abraham, for I have established you as the father of many nations. 6And I will cause you to increase very greatly, and I will set you among the nations, and kings will come forth from you. 7And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and with your offspring after you in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be God to you and to your offspring after you. 8And I will give to you and to your offspring, the land of your sojourn, all the land of Canaan, as an eternal possession, and I will be their God.” 9Again God said to Abraham: “And you therefore shall keep my covenant, and your offspring after you in their generations.

4Seek the Lord, and be confirmed. Seek his face always.

5Remember his miracles, which he has done, his portents and the judgments of his mouth:

6you offspring of Abraham his servant, you sons of Jacob his elect.

7He is the Lord our God. His judgments are throughout the entire earth.

8He has remembered his covenant for all ages: the word that he entrusted to a thousand generations,

9which he assigned to Abraham, and his oath to Isaac.

51Amen, amen, I say to you, if anyone will have kept my word, he will not see death for eternity.” 52Therefore, the Jews said: “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets; and yet you say, ‘If anyone will have kept my word, he shall not taste death for eternity.’ 53Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. So who do you make yourself to be?” 54Jesus responded: “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me. And you say about him that he is your God. 55And yet you have not known him. But I know him. And if I were to say that I do not know him, then I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and I keep his word. 56Abraham, your father, rejoiced that he might see my day; he saw it and was glad.” 57And so the Jews said to him, “You have not yet reached fifty years, and you have seen Abraham?” 58Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am.” 59Therefore, they took up stones to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and he departed from the temple.