Christian Standard Bible
John 7:28
28As he was teaching in the temple, Jesus cried out, “You know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me is true. You don’t know him;
John 7:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
- New International Version (NIV)Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him,
- English Standard Version (ESV)So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, "You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then Jesus cried out, as He taught in the temple, saying, “You both know Me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.
Context of John 7:28
26Yet, look, he’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to him. Can it be true that the authorities know he is the Messiah? 27But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where he is from.” As he was teaching in the temple, Jesus cried out, “You know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me is true. You don’t know him; 29I know him because I am from him, and he sent me.” 30Then they tried to seize him. Yet no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.
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Ἔκραξεν οὖν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ διδάσκων ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ λέγων· κἀμὲ οἴδατε καὶ οἴδατε πόθεν εἰμί· καὶ ἀπ᾽ ἐμαυτοῦ οὐκ ἐλήλυθα, ἀλλ᾽ ἔστιν ἀληθινὸς ὁ πέμψας με ὃν ὑμεῖς οὐκ οἴδατε·Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Thenοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
- criedκράζωkrazō · to cryG2896
- Jesusὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- JesusἸησοῦςIēsous · JesusG2424
- inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
- the templeἱερόνhieron · templeG2411
- as he taughtδιδάσκωdidaskō · to teachG1321
- ·καίkai · andG2532
- sayingλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
- Yeεἴδωeidō · to perceive: understandG1492
- bothκἀγώkagō kamoi kame · and IG2504
- whenceπόθενpothen · whenceG4159
- I amεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
- I amἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
- notοὐou · noG3756
- ofἀπόapo · away fromG575
- myselfἐμαυτοῦemautou emautō emauton · myselfG1683
- butἀλλάalla · butG235
- he that sentπέμπωpempō · to sendG3992
- meἐγώegō · I/weG1473
- trueἀληθινόςalēthinos · trueG228
- whomὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
- yeσύsu · youG4771
Cross-references for John 7:28
- John 1:46“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asked him. “Come and see,” Philip answered.
- John 8:14“Even if I testify about myself,” Jesus replied, “My testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I’m going. But you don’t know where I come from or where I’m going.
- Matthew 2:23Then he went and settled in a town called Nazareth to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.
- Luke 2:4Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David,
- John 3:2This man came to him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform these signs you do unless God were with him.”
- John 5:43I have come in my Father’s name, and yet you don’t accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
- John 8:16And if I do judge, my judgment is true, because it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
- John 10:36do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?
- John 12:49For I have not spoken on my own, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a command to say everything I have said.
- John 14:10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who lives in me does his works.
- John 3:33The one who has accepted his testimony has affirmed that God is true.
- John 5:32There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.
- John 8:26“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the one who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him — these things I tell the world.”
- Romans 3:4Absolutely not! Let God be true, even though everyone is a liar, as it is written: That you may be justified in your words and triumph when you judge.
- 2 Corinthians 1:18As God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes and no.”
- Hebrews 6:18so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.
Commentaries on John 7:28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am - Perhaps they should be read interrogatively: Do ye both know me, and know whence I am? Our Lord takes them up on their own profession, and argues from it. Since you have got so much information concerning me, add this to it, to make it complete; viz. that I am not come of myself; am no self-created or self-authorized prophet; I came from God: - the testimony of John the Baptist, the descent of the Holy Ghost, the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 25-30Verses 25-30 Christ proclaimed aloud, that they were in error in their thoughts about his origin. He was sent of God, who showed himself true to his promises. This declaration, that they knew not God, with his claim to peculiar knowledge, provoked the hearers; and they sought to take him, but God can tie men's hands, though he does not turn their hearts.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-52This chapter describes Jesus at the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus used parts of the feast to reveal his true identity to his fellow Jews and to show that he had fulfilled the feast's essential meaning (see 7:37–39; 8:12).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 28-2928-29. cried Jesus--in a louder tone, and more solemn, witnessing style than usual. Ye both, &c.--that is, "Yes, ye know both Myself and My local parentage, and (yet) I am not come of Myself." but he that sent me is true, &c.--Probably the meaning is, "He that sent Me is the only real Sender of any one."Read the comment
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Commentaries on John 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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