John 7:29

²⁷ But we know where this man is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.”

²⁸ Then 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,

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

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

³¹ Many in the crowd, however, believed in Him and said, “When the Christ comes, will He perform more signs than this man?”

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
KJV: But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
WEB: I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
ASV: I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.
DARBY: I know him, because I am from him, and *he* has sent me.
BLB: I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

ÅB: Jeg kjenner ham; for fra ham er jeg, og han har utsendt meg.
OTB: men jeg kjenner ham fordi jeg er fra ham, og han har sendt meg.»
B1930: Jeg kjenner ham; for fra ham er jeg, og han har utsendt mig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

John 8:55
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.
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Matthew 11:27
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.
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John 3:16–17
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.
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John 6:46
not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.
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1 John 4:9
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.
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John 17:25–26
Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
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John 1:18
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.
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John 17:18
As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.
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