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John 8:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

“Where is your Father?” they asked. “You don't know me or my Father!” Jesus answered. “If you knew me, you would know my Father.”

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I will give them a desire to know me and to be my people. They will want me to be their God, and they will turn back to me with all their heart.

At that moment Jesus said: My Father, Lord of heaven and earth, I am grateful that you hid all this from wise and educated people and showed it to ordinary people.

The Word was in the world, but no one knew him, though God had made the world with his Word.

No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is truly God and is closest to the Father, has shown us what God is like.

People will do to you exactly what they did to me. They will do it because you belong to me, and they don't know the one who sent me.

They will do these things because they don't know either the Father or me.

Eternal life is to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, the one you sent.

As Jesus was teaching in the temple, he shouted, “Do you really think you know me and where I came from? I didn't come on my own! The one who sent me is truthful, and you don't know him.

Be sensible and stop sinning. You should be embarrassed that some people still don't know about God.

But now you know God, or better still, God knows you. How can you turn back and become the slaves of those weak and pitiful powers?

I ask the glorious Father and God of our Lord Jesus Christ to give you his Spirit. The Spirit will make you wise and let you understand what it means to know God.

Then you will live a life that honours the Lord, and you will always please him by doing good deeds. You will come to know God even better.

Christ is exactly like God, who cannot be seen. He is the firstborn Son, superior to all creation.

God's Son has all the brightness of God's own glory and is like him in every way. By his own mighty word, he holds the universe together. After the Son had washed away our sins, he sat down at the right side of the glorious God in heaven.

If we reject the Son, we reject the Father. But if we say that we accept the Son, we have the Father.

We know that Jesus Christ the Son of God has come and has shown us the true God. And because of Jesus, we now belong to the true God who gives eternal life.

Don't keep changing what you were taught about Christ, or else God will no longer be with you. But if you hold firmly to what you were taught, both the Father and the Son will be with you.




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