Revised Webster's Bible
John 8:55
55Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
John 8:55 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
- New International Version (NIV)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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be a liar like you; but I do know Him and keep His word.
Context of John 8:55
53Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? 54Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his saying. 56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. 57Then said the Jews to him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
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καὶ οὐκ ἐγνώκατε αὐτόν, ἐγὼ δὲ οἶδα αὐτόν. κἂν εἴπω ὅτι οὐκ οἶδα αὐτόν, ἔσομαι ὅμοιος ὑμῖν ψεύστης· ἀλλ᾽ οἶδα αὐτὸν καὶ τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ τηρῶ.¶Read the interlinear
- Yetκαίkai · andG2532
- haveγινώσκωginōskō · to knowG1097
- notοὐou · noG3756
- himαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
- butδέde · thenG1161
- Iἐγώegō · I/weG1473
- knowεἴδωeidō · to perceive: understandG1492
- ifἐάνean · ifG1437
- sayεἶπονepō · to sayG2036
- ·ὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
- beἔσομαιesomai · will beG2071
- liarψεύστηςpseustēs · liarG5583
- likeὅμοιοςhomoios · likeG3664
- youὑμῶνhumōn · of youG5216
- butἀλλάalla · butG235
- keepτηρέωtēreō · to keep: observeG5083
- sayingλόγοςlogos · wordG3056
Cross-references for John 8:55
- John 8:19Then said they to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
- John 7:28Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know where I am from: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
- John 15:21But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
- John 16:3And these things will they do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
- John 17:25O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
- Jeremiah 4:22For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are silly children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Jeremiah 9:3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
- Hosea 5:4They will not frame their doings to turn to their God: for the spirit of harlotry is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
- Acts 17:23For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I to you.
- 2 Corinthians 4:6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shone into our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
- John 1:18No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him .
- John 6:46Not that any man hath seen the Father, except he who is from God, he hath seen the Father.
- John 7:29But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
- John 10:15As the Father knoweth me, even so I know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
- Matthew 11:27All things are delivered to me by my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son will reveal him .
- Luke 10:22All things are delivered to me by my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him .
Commentaries on John 8:55
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 54-59Verses 54-59 Christ and all that are his, depend upon God for honour. Men may be able to dispute about God, yet may not know him. Such as know not God, and obey not the gospel of Christ, are put together, 2Th 1:8. All who rightly know anything of Christ, earnestly desire to know more of him. Those who discern the dawn of the light of the Sun of Righteousness, wish to see his rising. "Before Abraham was, I AM." This speaks Abraham a creature, and our Lord…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-59The debate about whether Jesus is the Messiah continues from 7:52. Jesus remained at the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem. During the feast, the conflicts Jesus encountered in chapter 7 continued and intensified.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 54-5654-56. If I honour myself, my honour is nothing, &c.--(See on Joh 5:31, &c.).Read the comment
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- Tyndale Open Study Notes
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- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
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- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
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