John 7:29

I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.

In Context

28Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know where I am from? And I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom ye know not.

30They sought therefore to seize him, and yet no man laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

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Cross References

Matthew 11:27All things were delivered to me by my Father. And no man knows the Son, except the Father, nor does any man know the Father, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son wants to reveal him.

John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life.

John 8:55And ye do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word.

John 13:3Jesus, having seen that the Father has given all the things to him, into his hands, and that he came from God, and goes to God,

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

1 John 1:2(and the life was made known, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father, and was made known to us),

Matthew Henry on John 7:15-37

Christ at the Feast of Tabernacles. 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and… Read the whole commentary →

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