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 bring it forth.Yes, let them take counsel together: who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven't I, the Lord? and there is no God else besides me, a just God and a Savior; there is no one besides me.
Matthew 16:16Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God."
John 1:18No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
John 5:19Jesus therefore answered them, "Truly, truly, 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 do not 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 →