And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.”
Parallel translations
- WEB I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”
- KJV And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
- BSB I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”
- NASB But I knew that You always hear Me; nevertheless, because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me.”
- NLT You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.”
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Quick answer
Jesus prays aloud for the crowd's sake, that they might believe the Father sent him. The miracle is meant to confirm his divine mission.
Overview
Jesus explains that his audible prayer serves to strengthen the faith of the onlookers, not to inform the Father. The raising of Lazarus is a sign authenticating Jesus as the one sent from God. This reflects John's purpose that signs lead to belief in Jesus as the Christ.
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- John 3:17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
- John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
- 1 Jn 4:14We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
- Heb 7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
- John 17:25Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
- John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
- Heb 5:7He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
- Matt 26:53Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
- John 11:22Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”
- John 17:8for 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, and they have believed that you sent me.
- John 7:28–29Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.
- Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
- 1 Jn 4:9–10By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- John 12:27–30“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for this cause I came to this time.
- Matt 12:22–24Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.
- John 6:38–40For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
- John 8:16Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
- John 11:45–50Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him.
- John 8:29He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
- John 10:36–38do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’
- John 11:31Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
- John 9:24–34So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
- John 8:42Therefore 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.
- Gal 4:4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
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