John 7:28

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

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

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

You 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.

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;

When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.

Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.

do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?”

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.