"Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them." (Nehemiah 4:9)

"And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets." (Hebrews 11:32)

"This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us." (Acts 7:38)

"And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." (Genesis 29:20)

"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad." (John 8:56)

Jesus spoke to the Pharisees about "my day"--a day which Abraham had "seen" 2,000 years before. This evidently referred to the time when Christ would be on earth, which God had enabled Abraham to see in prophecy.