John 17:25
Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
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Isaiah 45:21Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, the LORD? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Saviour. There is no one besides me.
Matthew 16:16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
John 1:18No one has seen God at any time. The only born Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.
John 5:19Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
John 7:29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
John 8:55You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.
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 →