John 7:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then, when he was teaching in the Temple, Jesus said with a loud voice, You have knowledge of me and you have knowledge of where I come from; and I have not come of myself; but there is One who has sent me; he is true, but you have no knowledge of him.

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  • John 8:42 : 42 Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.
  • John 7:14 : 14 Now in the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the Temple and was teaching.
  • John 8:19 : 19 Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus said in answer, You have no knowledge of me or of my Father: if you had knowledge of me you would have knowledge of my Father.
  • John 8:26 : 26 I have much to say about you and against you: but he who sent me is true and what he has said to me I say to the world.
  • John 5:43 : 43 I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.
  • John 8:14 : 14 Jesus said in answer, Even if I give witness about myself, my witness is true, because I have knowledge of where I came from and where I am going; but you have no knowledge of where I come from or of where I am going.
  • Jer 9:6 : 6 There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.
  • Jer 31:34 : 34 And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.
  • Hos 4:1 : 1 Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.
  • Hos 5:4 : 4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.
  • Hos 6:3-6 : 3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth. 4 O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away. 5 So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth; 6 Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
  • Matt 2:23 : 23 And he came and was living in a town named Nazareth: so that the word of the prophets might come true, He will be named a Nazarene.
  • Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been given to me by my Father; and no one has knowledge of the Son, but the Father; and no one has knowledge of the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.
  • Luke 2:4 : 4 And Joseph went up from Galilee, out of the town of Nazareth, into Judaea, to Beth-lehem, the town of David, because he was of the house and family of David,
  • Luke 2:11 : 11 For on this day, in the town of David, a Saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord.
  • Luke 2:39 : 39 And when they had done all the things which were ordered by the law of the Lord, they went back to Galilee, to Nazareth, the town where they were living.
  • Luke 2:51 : 51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth; and did as he was ordered: and his mother kept all these words in her heart.
  • Luke 10:22 : 22 All things have been given to me by my Father: and no one has knowledge of the Son, but only the Father: and of the Father, but only the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.
  • John 1:46 : 46 Nazareth! said Nathanael, Is it possible for any good to come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.
  • John 3:2 : 2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.
  • John 3:33 : 33 He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.
  • John 5:32 : 32 There is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he gives about me is true.
  • John 8:54-55 : 54 Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God. 55 You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.
  • John 10:36 : 36 Do you say of him whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, Your words are evil; because I said, I am God's Son?
  • John 12:49 : 49 For I have not said it on my authority, but the Father who sent me gave me orders what to say and how to say it.
  • John 14:10 : 10 Have you not faith that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words which I say to you, I say not from myself: but the Father who is in me all the time does his works.
  • John 14:31 : 31 But he comes so that the world may see that I have love for the Father, and that I am doing as I am ordered by the Father. Get up, and let us go.
  • John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things to you because they have not had knowledge of the Father or of me.
  • John 17:3 : 3 And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
  • John 17:25 : 25 Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me;
  • Acts 17:23 : 23 For when I came by, I was looking at the things to which you give worship, and I saw an altar with this writing on it, TO THE GOD OF WHOM THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE. Now, what you, without knowledge, give worship to, I make clear to you.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
  • Rom 3:4 : 4 In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.
  • 2 Cor 1:18 : 18 As God is true, our word to you is not Yes and No.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws. 4 The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
  • 1 John 5:10 : 10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.
  • John 8:16 : 16 Even if I am judging, my decision is right, because I am not by myself--with me is the Father who sent me.
  • 1 Sam 2:12 : 12 Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.
  • Ps 9:10 : 10 And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.
  • Prov 2:3-5 : 3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge; 4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth; 5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

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