John 7:29

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”

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Referenced Verses

  • John 8:55 : 55 Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.
  • Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
  • John 3:16-17 : 16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
  • John 6:46 : 46 (Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God– he has seen the Father.)
  • John 10:15 : 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father– and I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • John 13:3 : 3 Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
  • John 16:27-28 : 27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 28 I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
  • John 17:18 : 18 Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.
  • John 17:25-26 : 25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me. 26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”
  • 1 John 1:2 : 2 and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).
  • 1 John 4:9 : 9 By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.
  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

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  • John 7:27-28
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    27But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”

    28Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out,“You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

  • John 8:14
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    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 people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

  • John 8:55
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    55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

  • John 17:25
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    25Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

  • John 16:27-28
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    27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

    28I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

  • John 8:28-29
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    28Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

    29And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

  • John 8:42
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    42Jesus replied,“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

  • John 17:7-8
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    7Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

    8because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

  • John 8:26
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    26I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”

  • John 8:23
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    23Jesus replied,“You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

  • John 14:7
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    7If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

  • John 1:33
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    33And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me,‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining– this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

  • John 1:30-31
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    30This is the one about whom I said,‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

    31I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”

  • John 7:16
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    16So Jesus replied,“My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

  • John 8:18-19
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    18I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

    19Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”

  • John 12:45
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    45and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

  • John 10:14-15
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    14“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me–

    15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father– and I lay down my life for the sheep.

  • John 12:49-50
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    49For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

    50And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

  • John 5:32
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    32There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.

  • John 9:29
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    29We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!”

  • John 8:16
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    16But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

  • John 5:36-37
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    36“But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete– the deeds I am now doing– testify about me that the Father has sent me.

    37And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

  • John 6:38
    72%

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

  • John 5:30
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    30I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

  • John 3:28
    72%

    28You yourselves can testify that I said,‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather,‘I have been sent before him.’

  • John 7:33
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    33Then Jesus said,“I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

  • John 13:19-20
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    19I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.

    20I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”

  • John 18:8
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    8Jesus replied,“I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go.”

  • John 10:27
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    27My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

  • John 11:42
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    42I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

  • John 15:26
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    26When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father– the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father– he will testify about me,

  • John 10:30
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    30The Father and I are one.”

  • John 6:42
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    42and they said,“Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say,‘I have come down from heaven’?”

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

  • John 14:31
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    31but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • John 7:18
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    18The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

  • Matt 11:27
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    27All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

  • John 14:10
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    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

  • John 18:4
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    4Then Jesus, because he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came and asked them,“Who are you looking for?”

  • John 4:26
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    26Jesus said to her,“I, the one speaking to you, am he.”