John 17:25
Father, you always do what is right. But the people that belong to this world don’t know you. But I know you, and my followers know that you sent me to the world.
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John 1:18Nobody has ever seen God. But the special man, the one that is God, he is always with his father. He is the one that showed us what God is like.
John 5:19Jesus knew what they were saying, so he said to them, “Listen, I am telling you straight, God is my father, and I am his son. I can only do what my father does. I can’t do anything on my own. I do the same things that I see my father do. Whatever he does, I do the same.
John 7:29But I do know him. You see, God sent me here. I came from him, so I know him.”
John 8:55You mob don’t know God, but I know him. That’s right. I’m not a liar, like you, I’m telling the true story. I know him, and I do what he says.
Matthew Henry on John 17:25-26
Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. Here is, I. A petition for the… Read the whole commentary →