John 8:52,53

Now we know that thou hast a devil.— "We know now for certain that thou art under diabolic influences; for the most righteous persons that ever lived, are dead; even Abraham and the prophets: yet thou hast hardiness enough to say, If a man keep my saying, he shall never die." There is a great emphasis on the word my in this place; the Jews using it to insinuate both the folly and the fault of Christ's boasting, as intimating that his word was more efficacious than that of God himself, which Abraham and the prophets heard, and yet were not able to procure an immunity from death for themselves, far less for their followers. Many of the best copies read the last clause of the 52nd verse interrogatively: "Dost thou, who art not to be compared with Abraham and the prophets, say, If a man keep my saying, &c.?"