John 7:29
I do know him, for it is from him that I have come, and he sent me as his messenger.”
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
In Context
30So they sought to arrest him; but no one touched him, for his time was not come yet.
Cross References
Matthew 11:27Everything has been committed to me by my Father; nor does anyone fully know the Son, except the Father, or fully know the Father, except the Son and those to whom the Son may choose to reveal him.
John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost, but have eternal life.
John 8:55and yet you have not learned to know him; but I know him; and, if I were to say that I do not know him, I should be a liar like you; but I do know him, and I lay his message to heart.
John 13:3and at supper, Jesus – although knowing that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was to return to God –
John 17:18Just as you have sent me as your messenger to the world, so I send them as my messengers to the world.
1 John 1:2That life was made visible, and we have seen it. We bear our testimony to it, and tell you of that eternal life which was with the Father and was made visible 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 →