John 8:56, in about twenty lectures, and it is Neville's proof-text that the whole outcome was shown in advance. Abraham was given a preview of God's plan of salvation, which he supports from Galatians 3:8 - the scripture, foreseeing, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand. The reading turns on one Greek identification he states repeatedly: seeing and knowing in the Greek are one, seeing is experiencing, so he saw it does not mean he was shown a picture, it means he underwent it. That is why the verse is attached to the laughter of Genesis 17: told at a hundred years old that he would have a son, Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and Neville leaves the laugh deliberately undecided - is this the laughter of derision, laughter of incredulity, or the laughter of rejoicing? He will not settle it, and says so: you can take it in any form you want. The undecided laugh is the point, because the same announcement is ridiculous and joyful depending only on whether the hearer has had the experience.