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John 7:29

but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Thompson Chain Reference - Divine;   God's;   Knowledge;   Knowledge-Ignorance;   Messenger, Divine;   The Topic Concordance - Knowledge;   Sending and Those Sent;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Teacher;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Knowledge of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Candlestick;   Feasts;   Tabernacles, Feast of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Knowledge;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Logos;   Scribes;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Complacency;   Dispersion ;   Error;   Example;   Love (2);   Son of God;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tabernacles feast of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I know him because I am from him, and he sent me.”
King James Version (1611)
But I know him, for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
King James Version
But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
English Standard Version
I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me."
New American Standard Bible
"I do know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me."
New Century Version
But I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
Amplified Bible
"I know Him Myself because I am from Him [I came from His very presence] and it was He [personally] who sent Me."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me."
Legacy Standard Bible
I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me."
Berean Standard Bible
but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me."
Contemporary English Version
But I know the one who sent me, because I came from him."
Complete Jewish Bible
I do know him, because I am with him, and he sent me!"
Darby Translation
I know him, because I am from him, and *he* has sent me.
Easy-to-Read Version
I know him because I am from him. He is the one who sent me."
Geneva Bible (1587)
But I knowe him: for I am of him, and he hath sent me.
George Lamsa Translation
But I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.
Good News Translation
but I know him, because I come from him and he sent me."
Lexham English Bible
I know him, because I am from him and he sent me."
Literal Translation
But 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.
Bible in Basic English
I have knowledge of him because I came from him and he sent me.
Hebrew Names Version
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
International Standard Version
I know him because I have come from him and he sent me."Matthew 11:27; John 10:15;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
But I know him who am from him; and he hath sent me.
Murdock Translation
but I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But I knowe him, for I am of him, and he hath sent me.
English Revised Version
I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.
World English Bible
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But I know him; for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
Weymouth's New Testament
I know Him, because I came from Him, and He sent me."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y knowe hym, and if Y seie that Y knowe hym not, Y schal be lijk to you, a liere; but Y knowe hym, for of hym Y am, and he sente me.
Update Bible Version
I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.
Webster's Bible Translation
But I know him; for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
New King James Version
But [fn] I know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me."
New Living Translation
But I know him because I come from him, and he sent me to you."
New Life Bible
I know Him because I am from Him and He sent Me."
New Revised Standard
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I, know him, because, from him, I am, and, he, sent me forth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me.
Revised Standard Version
I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I knowe him: for I am of him and he hath sent me.
Young's Literal Translation
and I have known Him, because I am from Him, and He did send me.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But I knowe him, for I am of him, and he hath sent me.
Mace New Testament (1729)
but I know him, for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
Simplified Cowboy Version
but I do. And he sent me here to you."

Contextual Overview

14 When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach. 15 Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, "How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?" 16 So Jesus replied, "My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me. 17 If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority. 18 The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him. 19 Hasn't Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?" 20 The crowd answered, "You're possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?" 21 Jesus replied, "I performed one miracle and you are all amazed. 22 However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath. 23 But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

for: John 3:16, John 3:17, John 13:3, John 16:27, John 16:28, John 17:18, 1 John 1:2, 1 John 4:9, 1 John 4:14

Reciprocal: John 6:46 - he hath John 8:14 - for John 8:42 - neither John 11:42 - that thou John 14:10 - words John 17:3 - and Jesus

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I know him,.... His nature and perfections, his purposes and promises, his council and covenant, his mind and will; and indeed none knows him but he, and those to whom he pleases to reveal him; and there is good reason why he should have intimate and perfect knowledge of him:

for I am from him; being the only begotten of him, and as such lay in his bosom, and knew him, and his whole heart, and was privy to all of him, and that that is within him;

and he hath sent me; in an office capacity to redeem his people. This is the original descent of Christ, which the Jews knew not, though they pretended to know him, and whence he was.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 29. But I know him: for I am from him — Instead of ειμ, I am, some editions, the Syriac Hieros. read ειμι, I came, according to the Attics. Nonnus confirms this reading by paraphrasing the word by εληλυθα, I came. As the difference between the two words lies only in the accents, and as these are not found in ancient MSS., it is uncertain which way the word was understood by them: nor is the matter of much moment; both words amount nearly to the same meaning and ειμι, I came, seems too refined.


 
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