John 8:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • John 15:15 : 15 No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.
  • John 7:28 : 28 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.
  • John 8:40 : 40 But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.
  • John 5:42-43 : 42 But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts. 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 7:16 : 16 Jesus gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, but his who sent me.
  • John 8:16-17 : 16 Even if I am judging, my decision is right, because I am not by myself--with me is the Father who sent me. 17 Even in your law it is said that the witness of two men is true.
  • John 16:12 : 12 I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now.
  • John 17:8 : 8 Because I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they have taken them to heart, and have certain knowledge that I came from you, and they have faith that you sent me.
  • 2 Cor 1:18 : 18 As God is true, our word to you is not Yes and No.
  • Heb 5:11-12 : 11 Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing. 12 And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.
  • John 9:39-41 : 39 And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind. 40 These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind? 41 Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.
  • John 12:47-50 : 47 And if any man gives ear to my words and does not keep them, I am not his judge: I did not come to be judge of the world but to give salvation to the world. 48 He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day. 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. 50 And I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I say, I say them even as the Father says them to me.
  • John 3:32-33 : 32 He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true. 33 He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.

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  • John 8:12-16
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    12 Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

    13 So the Pharisees said to him, The witness you give is about yourself: your witness is not true.

    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.

    15 You are judging from what you see; I am judging no man.

    16 Even if I am judging, my decision is right, because I am not by myself--with me is the Father who sent me.

  • John 8:23-25
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    23 And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

    24 For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.

    25 Then they said to him, Who are you? Jesus said, What I said to you from the first.

  • John 12:47-50
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    47 And if any man gives ear to my words and does not keep them, I am not his judge: I did not come to be judge of the world but to give salvation to the world.

    48 He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day.

    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.

    50 And I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I say, I say them even as the Father says them to me.

  • John 8:38
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    38 I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.

  • John 8:27-30
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    27 They did not see that his words were about the Father.

    28 So Jesus said, When the Son of man has been lifted up by you, then it will be clear to you who I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but say as the Father gave me teaching.

    29 He who sent me is with me; he has not gone from me, because at all times I do the things which are pleasing to him.

    30 When he said this a number came to have faith in him.

  • John 16:11-12
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    11 Of being judged, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

    12 I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now.

  • John 5:36
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    36 But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me.

  • John 5:30-33
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    30 Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.

    31 If I gave witness about myself, my witness would not be true.

    32 There is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he gives about me is true.

    33 You sent to John and he gave true witness.

  • John 8:45-46
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    45 But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me.

    46 Which of you is able truly to say that I am a sinner? If I say what is true, why have you no belief in me?

  • John 8:18
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    18 I give witness about myself and the Father who sent me gives witness about me.

  • John 7:28-29
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    28 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.

    29 I have knowledge of him because I came from him and he sent me.

  • John 18:20-21
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    20 Jesus made answer, I said things openly to the world at all times; I have given my teaching in the Synagogues and in the Temple to which all the Jews come; and I have said nothing secretly.

    21 Why are you questioning me? put questions to my hearers about what I have said to them: they have knowledge of what I said.

  • John 7:16
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    16 Jesus gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, but his who sent me.

  • John 17:8
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    8 Because I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they have taken them to heart, and have certain knowledge that I came from you, and they have faith that you sent me.

  • John 8:55
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    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 8:50
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    50 I, however, am not in search of glory for myself: there is One who is searching for it and he is judge.

  • John 18:37
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    37 Then Pilate said to him, Are you then a king? Jesus made answer, You say that I am a king. For this purpose was I given birth, and for this purpose I came into the world, that I might give witness to what is true. Every lover of what is true gives ear to my voice.

  • John 16:28
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    28 I came out from the Father and have come into the world: again, I go away from the world and go to the Father.

  • John 5:38
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    38 And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

  • John 14:30
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    30 After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me;

  • John 18:8
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    8 Jesus made answer, I have said that I am he; if you are looking for me, let these men go away.

  • John 18:34
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    34 Jesus made answer, Do you say this of yourself, or did others say it about me?

  • John 14:25
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    25 I have said all this to you while I am still with you.

  • John 16:4
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    4 I have said these things to you so that when the time comes, what I have said may come to your mind. I did not say them to you at the first, because then I was still with you.

  • John 3:11
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    11 Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

  • John 13:20
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    20 Truly I say to you, He who takes to his heart anyone whom I send, takes me to his heart; and he who so takes me, takes him who sent me.

  • John 17:18
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    18 Even as you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

  • John 3:34
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    34 For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.

  • John 10:36
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    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 10:25
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    25 Jesus said in answer, I have said it and you have no belief: the works which I do in my Father's name, these give witness about me.

  • John 12:45
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    45 And he who sees me, sees him who sent me.