but I know him because I am from him and he sent me.”
“All things have been committed 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.
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God;
As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.
No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and obey his word.
The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
