John 7:28

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Jesus was still teaching in the Temple area when he said loudly, “Do you really know me and where I am from? I am here, but not by my own decision. I was sent by one who is very real. But you don’t know him.

Cross References

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were really your Father, you would love me. I came from God, and now I am here. I did not come by my own authority. God sent me.

John 8:19

The people asked, “Where is your father?” Jesus answered, “You don’t know me or my Father. But if you knew me, you would know my Father too.”

John 8:26

I have much more I could say to judge you. But I tell people only what I have heard from the one who sent me, and he speaks the truth.”

John 8:14

Jesus answered, “Yes, I am saying these things about myself. But people can believe what I say, because I know where I came from. And I know where I am going. But you don’t know where I came from or where I am going.

Jeremiah 9:6

One bad thing followed another, and lies followed lies. The people refused to know me.” This is what the Lord said.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life: that people can know you, the only true God, and that they can know Jesus Christ, the one you sent.

John 12:49

That is because what I taught was not from myself. The Father who sent me told me what to say and what to teach.

John 5:43

I have come from my Father and speak for him, but you don’t accept me. But when other people come speaking only for themselves, you accept them.

Matthew 11:27

“My Father has given me everything. No one knows the Son—only the Father knows the Son. And no one knows the Father—only the Son knows the Father. And the only people who will know about the Father are those the Son chooses to tell.

1 John 5:10

Whoever believes in the Son of God has the truth that God told us. But people who do not believe God make God a liar, because they do not believe what God told us about his Son.

Hebrews 6:18

These two things cannot change: God cannot lie when he says something, and he cannot lie when he makes an oath. So these two things are a great help to us who have come to God for safety. They encourage us to hold on to the hope that is ours.

Titus 1:2

This faith and knowledge make us sure that we have eternal life. God promised that life to us before time began—and God does not lie.

2 Corinthians 4:6

God once said, “Let light shine out of the darkness!” And this is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts to let us know that his own divine greatness is seen in the face of Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:18

But if you can believe God, then you can believe that what we tell you is never both yes and no.

Romans 3:4

No, even if everyone else is a liar, God will always do what he says. As the Scriptures say about him, “You will be proved right in what you say, and you will win when people accuse you.” Psalm 51:4

Romans 1:28

People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking. And so they do what they should not do.

Acts 17:23

I was going through your city and I saw the things you worship. I found an altar that had these words written on it: ‘to an unknown god.’ You worship a god that you don’t know. This is the God I want to tell you about.

John 17:25

Father, you are the one who always does what is right. The world does not know you, but I know you, and these followers of mine know that you sent me.

John 16:3

They will do this because they have not known the Father, and they have not known me.

John 14:31

But the world must know that I love the Father. So I do exactly what the Father told me to do. “Come now, let’s go.”

John 14:10

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The things I have told you don’t come from me. The Father lives in me, and he is doing his own work.

John 10:36

So why do you accuse me of insulting God for saying, ‘I am God’s Son’? I am the one God chose and sent into the world.

John 8:16

But if I judge, my judging is true, because when I judge I am not alone. The Father who sent me is with me.

John 5:32

But there is someone else who tells people about me, and I know that what he says about me is true.

John 3:33

Whoever accepts what he says has given proof that God speaks the truth.

John 3:2

One night he came to Jesus and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a teacher sent from God. No one can do these miraculous signs that you do unless they have God’s help.”

John 1:46

But Nathanael said to Philip, “Nazareth! Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Philip answered, “Come and see.”

Luke 10:22

“My Father has given me all things. No one knows who the Son is—only the Father knows. And only the Son knows who the Father is. The only people who will know about the Father are those the Son chooses to tell.”

Luke 2:51

Jesus went with them to Nazareth and obeyed them. His mother was still thinking about all these things.

Luke 2:39

Joseph and Mary finished doing all the things that the law of the Lord commanded. Then they went home to Nazareth, their own town in Galilee.

Luke 2:11

Today your Savior was born in David’s town. He is the Messiah, the Lord.

Luke 2:4

So Joseph left Nazareth, a town in Galilee, and went to the town of Bethlehem in Judea. It was known as the town of David. Joseph went there because he was from the family of David.

Matthew 2:23

He went to a town called Nazareth and lived there. This gave full meaning to what God said through the prophets. God said the Messiah would be called a Nazarene.

Hosea 5:4

The people of Israel have done many evil things, and these evil things keep them from coming back to their God. They are always thinking of ways to chase after other gods. They don’t know the Lord.

Hosea 4:1

People of Israel, listen to the Lord’s message. The Lord has something to say against those who live in this land: “The people in this land are not honest or loyal. They don’t really know God.

Jeremiah 31:34

People will not have to teach their neighbors and relatives to know the Lord, because all people, from the least important to the most important, will know me.” This message is from the Lord. “I will forgive them for the evil things they did. I will not remember their sins.”

Psalm 9:10

Lord, those who know your name come to you for protection. And when they come, you do not leave them without help.

1 Samuel 2:12

Eli’s sons were evil men who did not care about the Lord.

John 7:14

When the festival was about half finished, Jesus went to the Temple area and began to teach.

Matthew 26:55

Then Jesus said to the crowd, “Why do you come to get me with swords and clubs as if I were a criminal. Every day I sat in the Temple area teaching. You did not arrest me there.

John 6:42

They said, “This is Jesus. We know his father and mother. He is only Joseph’s son. How can he say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”

John 9:29

We know that God spoke to Moses. But we don’t even know where this man comes from!”