John 8:26

Plain English Version

I can say a lot about you, and I can even judge you. But I will not do that now. You see, right now I am telling people what I heard from the one that sent me to the world. And you can trust his words. They are true.”

Cross References

John 15:15

I’m not calling you my workers any more, but I’m calling you my friends. Workers don’t know what their boss is doing, but I told you everything that my father told me. So now you know what I am doing.

John 16:12

I have a lot more to tell you, but it’s too much for you right now.

John 17:8

I told them the message that you told me, and they believed it. Now they know for sure that you sent me to the world.

John 18:20

Jesus said, “I always talked to people in places where everybody can hear me. I talked in our meeting houses, and in God’s ceremony house in Jerusalem, the places where all of us Jewish people meet. I didn’t keep my message secret.

John 3:11

Listen, I am telling you straight, I talk about the things I know, and about the things I have seen, but you don’t take any notice of what I tell you.

John 7:16

Jesus told them, “God sent me to you, and he told me to teach these things. They are his words, not mine.

John 7:28

Jesus was still teaching in God’s ceremony house, and he knew what those people were saying. So he said out loud, “You think you know me, and you think you know where I come from. But you don’t really know me. Listen. It was not my idea to come here. God is the one that sent me here. He really is the one that sent me. You don’t know him.

John 8:25

So the Jewish leaders asked Jesus, “Who do you reckon you are?” Jesus said, “I told you who I am, right from the start.

John 8:27

The people listening to Jesus didn’t understand that he was talking about his father in heaven.

John 8:40

I am telling you the true message I heard from God, and you are trying to kill me. You are nothing like Abraham. He never did bad things like that.