John 7:28
Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am. And I am not come of myself: but he that sent me is true, whom you know not.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
27But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth, whence he is.
29I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me.
Cross References
Psalms 9:10And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation. In his net he will bring him down, he will crouch and fall, when he shall have power over the poor.
Jeremiah 9:6Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.
Hosea 4:1Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord shall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 6:3He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.
Matthew 11:27All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.
Luke 2:11For, this day is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David.
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 →