John 7:29 “but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.””

John 7:29

but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.

World English Bible

I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”

American Standard Version

I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.

Geneva Bible 1599

But I knowe him: for I am of him, and he hath sent me.

Darby Translation

I know him, because I am from him, and he has sent me.

Young's Literal Translation

and I have known Him, because I am from Him, and He did send me.'

Bible in Basic English

I have knowledge of him because I came from him and he sent me.

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Cross references

“I”

John 8:55 John 1:18 John 10:15 John 17:25 John 17:26

John 8:55 · BSB

You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.

John 1:18 · BSB

No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.

John 10:15 · BSB

just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

John 17:25 · BSB

Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.

John 17:26 · BSB

And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”

“for”

John 17:18 1 John 4:9 1 John 1:2 John 13:3 1 John 4:14 John 3:16

John 17:18 · BSB

As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.

1 John 4:9 · BSB

This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

1 John 1:2 · BSB

And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.

John 13:3 · BSB

Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.

1 John 4:14 · BSB

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

John 3:16 · BSB

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Also

Matthew 11:27 John 6:46

Matthew 11:27 · BSB

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

John 6:46 · BSB

not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,

30So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

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