John 8:55

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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  • John 8:19 : 19 Then 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 8:44 : 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • John 7:28-29 : 28 Then 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, 29 but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”
  • John 8:51 : 51 I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”
  • 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 15:21 : 21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
  • 1 John 5:10 : 10 (The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Listen! I am going to make those people from the synagogue of Satan– who say they are Jews yet are not, but are lying– Look, I will make them come and bow down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.
  • John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
  • John 17:25 : 25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.
  • Acts 17:23 : 23 For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.
  • 1 John 2:22 : 22 Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.
  • 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 15:10 : 10 If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
  • Luke 10:22 : 22 All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is 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 6:46 : 46 (Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God– he has seen the Father.)
  • John 8:29 : 29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 The LORD answered,“This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 The Lord Laments That He Has No Choice But to Judge Them The LORD says,“These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.
  • Hos 5:4 : 4 Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; for a spirit of idolatry is in them, and they do not acknowledge the LORD.

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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.”

  • 1 John 2:3-4
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    3Keeping God’s Commandments Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

    4The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

  • 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 8:54
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    54Jesus replied,“If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say,‘He is our God.’

  • 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 8:56
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    56Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”

  • John 8:13-14
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    13So the Pharisees objected,“You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!”

    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.

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    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

    38I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

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    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,

    29but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”

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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.

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    11I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

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    42but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

  • John 8:51-52
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    51I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”

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    38nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

  • John 8:45-47
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    45But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.

    46Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me?

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    24Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

    25So they said to him,“Who are you?” Jesus replied,“What I have told you from the beginning.

    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.”

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    38But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

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    40But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

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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.

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    36But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe.

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    17If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

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    21I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.