John 16:28

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I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.

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  • John 13:3 : 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going back to God,
  • John 8:14 : 14 Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
  • John 13:1 : 1 Now, before the Passover festival, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, loved them to the very end.
  • John 16:5 : 5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
  • John 16:16 : 16 A little while, and you will no longer see me; and again a little while, and you will see me, because I am going to the Father.
  • John 17:5 : 5 And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
  • John 17:11 : 11 I will no longer be in the world, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
  • John 17:13 : 13 But now I am coming to You, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.
  • Acts 1:9-9 : 9 After He had said this, He was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud hid Him from their sight. 10 As they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, suddenly two men in white robes stood beside them. 11 They said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him go into heaven."
  • Luke 9:51 : 51 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face firmly to go to Jerusalem.
  • Luke 24:51 : 51 While he was blessing them, he departed from them and was taken up to heaven.
  • John 14:28 : 28 You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 16:27
    83%

    27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

  • John 14:28-31
    4 verses
    82%

    28You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

    29And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe.

    30I will not speak much with you anymore, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.

    31But so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded me. Rise, let us go from here.

  • John 16:15-17
    3 verses
    79%

    15Everything that the Father has is mine. This is why I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

    16A little while, and you will no longer see me; and again a little while, and you will see me, because I am going to the Father.

    17Then some of his disciples said to one another, 'What does he mean by saying, “A little while and you will no longer see me; and again a little while and you will see me,” and “because I am going to the Father”?'

  • John 8:42
    79%

    42Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

  • John 8:23
    78%

    23He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

  • John 12:27-28
    2 verses
    76%

    27Now My soul is troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But this is why I came to this hour.

    28Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

  • John 17:8
    76%

    8For I gave them the words You gave Me, and they received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

  • John 14:18-20
    3 verses
    76%

    18I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.

    19In a little while, the world will see me no longer, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.

    20On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

  • John 6:38
    76%

    38'For I have come down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me.'

  • John 7:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

    28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple, cried out, 'You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You do not know Him.

    29I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.'

  • John 8:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

    28So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but speak just as the Father taught me.

    29The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I always do what pleases him."

  • John 8:14
    75%

    14Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

  • John 16:32
    75%

    32'Look, the hour is coming—in fact, it has already arrived—when you will be scattered, each to your own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.'

  • John 16:10
    75%

    10about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;

  • John 13:33
    75%

    33'Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you: Where I am going, you cannot come.'

  • John 17:18
    75%

    18As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.

  • John 14:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, the Father who dwells in me does his work.

    11Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the works themselves.

  • John 17:13
    74%

    13But now I am coming to You, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

  • John 14:3
    74%

    3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am, you may be also.

  • John 16:5
    74%

    5But now I am going to the one who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

  • John 8:21
    74%

    21Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."

  • John 10:17
    74%

    17The Father loves me because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.

  • John 14:6
    74%

    6Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'

  • John 16:25
    73%

    25I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

  • John 10:30
    73%

    30I and the Father are one.

  • John 16:29
    73%

    29His disciples said to him, 'See, now you are speaking plainly and not using any figure of speech.'

  • John 8:26
    73%

    26I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."

  • John 15:26
    73%

    26When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me.

  • John 13:3
    73%

    3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going back to God,

  • John 17:23-25
    3 verses
    73%

    23I in them and You in Me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me.

    24Father, I desire that those You have given Me may be with Me where I am, to see My glory, the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

    25Righteous Father, though the world has not known You, I have known You, and they have known that You sent Me.

  • John 7:33
    73%

    33Then Jesus said, 'I will be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.'

  • John 17:5
    73%

    5And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.

  • John 8:16
    73%

    16And even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

  • John 8:38
    72%

    38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."

  • John 17:11
    72%

    11I will no longer be in the world, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.

  • John 12:49
    72%

    49For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to speak.

  • John 17:1
    72%

    1After Jesus had spoken these words, He looked up to heaven and said, 'Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, so that the Son may glorify You.'