John 9:29

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We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!”

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  • 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 people do not know where I came from or where I am going.
  • John 9:16 : 16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say,“This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said,“How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them.
  • John 9:24 : 24 Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him,“Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.”
  • Acts 7:35 : 35 This same Moses they had rejected, saying,‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
  • Acts 22:22 : 22 The Roman Commander Questions Paul The crowd was listening to him until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted,“Away with this man from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!”
  • Acts 26:22 : 22 I have experienced help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said was going to happen:
  • Heb 3:2-5 : 2 who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s house. 3 For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself! 4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. 5 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.
  • Num 12:2-7 : 2 They said,“Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than any man on the face of the earth.) 4 The Response of the Lord The LORD spoke immediately to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam:“The three of you come to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them went. 5 And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward. 6 The LORD said,“Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream. 7 My servant Moses is not like this; he is faithful in all my house.
  • Num 16:28 : 28 Then Moses said,“This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.
  • Deut 34:10 : 10 No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the LORD face to face.
  • 1 Kgs 22:27 : 27 Say,‘This is what the king says,“Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water until I safely return.”’”
  • 2 Kgs 9:11 : 11 When Jehu rejoined his master’s servants, they asked him,“Is everything all right? Why did this madman visit you?” He replied,“Ah, it’s not important. You know what kind of man he is and the kinds of things he says.”
  • Ps 22:6 : 6 But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.
  • Ps 103:7 : 7 The LORD revealed his faithful acts to Moses, his deeds to the Israelites.
  • Ps 105:26 : 26 He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
  • Ps 106:16 : 16 In the camp they resented Moses, and Aaron, the LORD’s holy priest.
  • Isa 53:2-3 : 2 He sprouted up like a twig before God, like a root out of parched soil; he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, no special appearance that we should want to follow him. 3 He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.
  • Mal 4:4 : 4 Restoration through the Lord“Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey.
  • Matt 12:24 : 24 But when the Pharisees heard this they said,“He does not cast out demons except by the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons!”
  • Matt 26:61 : 61 and declared,“This man said,‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”
  • Luke 23:2 : 2 They began to accuse him, saying,“We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king.”
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.
  • John 7:27 : 27 But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
  • John 7:41-42 : 41 Others said,“This is the Christ!” But still others said,“No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he? 42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

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  • John 9:30-37
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    30 The man replied,“This is a remarkable thing, that you don’t know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!

    31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

    32 Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see.

    33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

    34 They replied,“You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.

    35 The Man’s Response to Jesus Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him,“Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

    36 The man replied,“And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”

    37 Jesus told him,“You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you.”[

  • John 9:23-28
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    23 For this reason his parents said,“He is a mature adult, ask him.”)

    24 Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him,“Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.”

    25 He replied,“I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing– that although I was blind, now I can see.”

    26 Then they said to him,“What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?”

    27 He answered,“I told you already and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”

    28 They heaped insults on him, saying,“You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses!

  • John 7:26-29
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    26 Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the ruling authorities really know that this man is the Christ?

    27 But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”

    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 9:15-21
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    15 So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied,“He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see.”

    16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say,“This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said,“How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them.

    17 So again they asked the man who used to be blind,“What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?”“He is a prophet,” the man replied.

    18 Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

    19 They asked the parents,“Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

    20 So his parents replied,“We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

    21 But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself.”

  • 12 They said to him,“Where is that man?” He replied,“I don’t know.”

  • 7 So they replied that they did not know where it came from.

  • John 3:10-11
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    10 Jesus answered,“Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things?

    11 I 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.

  • 30 Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God.”

  • 42 and 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’?”

  • 49 But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”

  • 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 people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

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    8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying,“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

    9 Some people said,“This is the man!” while others said,“No, but he looks like him.” The man himself kept insisting,“I am the one!”

    10 So they asked him,“How then were you made to see?”

  • 18 So they kept on repeating,“What is the meaning of what he says,‘In a little while’? We do not understand what he is talking about.”

  • 2 came to Jesus at night and said to him,“Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him.”

  • 40 Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him,“We are not blind too, are we?”

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    12 They asked him,“Who is the man who said to you,‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”

    13 But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

  • 9 What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t understand?

  • 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.”

  • 40 saying to Aaron,‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt– we do not know what has happened to him!’

  • 15 Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said,“How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?”

  • 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.

  • 5 Thomas said,“Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

  • 2 His disciples asked him,“Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”

  • 22 You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

  • 33 So they answered Jesus,“We don’t know.” Then Jesus said to them,“Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”