John 7:28

Jesus cries out that though they think they know Him and His origin, He has not come on His own; the One who sent Him is true, and they do not know Him. Their ignorance of the Father lies behind their misjudgment of the Son.

Cross-references · 40

• John 8:42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
• Jer 9:6You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
• John 8:19“Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”
• John 8:14Jesus replied, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going.
• John 8:26“I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”
• John 12:49I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
• 1 Jn 2:3–4By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
• John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
• John 5:43I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.
• Matt 11:27All 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.
• Luke 2:11Today in the city of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord!
• Prov 2:3–5if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,
• Hos 5:4Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.
• John 8:54–55Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory means nothing. The One who glorifies Me is My Father, of whom you say ‘He is our God.’
• John 10:36then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?
• John 14:10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.
• Luke 2:39When Jesus’ parents had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.
• Jer 31:34No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
• Hos 4:1Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!
• 2 Cor 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• John 3:2He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
• 1 Sam 2:12Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD
• Matt 2:23and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
• Rom 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
• Acts 17:23For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
• 1 Jn 5:10Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him; whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given about His Son.
• John 17:25Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
• Ps 9:10Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
• Heb 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
• Luke 10:22All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”
• Hos 6:3–6So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
• John 5:32There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is valid.
• Luke 2:51Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
• Rom 3:4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
• John 3:33Whoever accepts His testimony has certified that God is truthful.
• 2 Cor 1:18But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
• John 1:46“Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip.
• Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
• John 14:31But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.
• John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

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