John 8:19 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹⁹ Then they said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father too."

²⁵ At that same time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent and revealing it to children.

²¹ At that moment he was inspired with joy, and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent, and revealing it to children! Yes, I thank you, Father, for choosing to have it so! ²² Everything has been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, nor who the Father is but the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

¹⁰ He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God; it is the divine Only Son, who leans upon his Father's breast, that has made him known.

²⁸ So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple, cried out, "You do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come of my own accord but someone who is very real, whom you do not know, has sent me.

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, "If I show special honor to myself, such honor counts for nothing. It is my Father who shows me honor. You say he is your God, ⁵⁵ yet you have never come to know him. But I know him. If I say I do not know him, I will be a liar like yourselves. No! I do know him, and I am faithful to his message.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know me, ¹⁵ just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I am giving my life for my sheep.

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me. ⁷ If you knew me, you would know my Father also. From now on you do know him and you have seen him." ⁸ Philip said to him, "Master, let us see the Father, and it will satisfy us." ⁹ Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'?

²¹ But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.

³ They will do this because they do not know the Father or me.

³ And eternal life means knowing you as the only true God, and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.

²⁵ Righteous Father, though the world did not know you, I knew you, and these men knew that you had sent me. ²⁶ I have made your self known to them and I will do so still, so that the love which you have had for me may be in their hearts, and I may be there also."

³⁴ Return to your sober sense as you ought, and stop sinning, for some of you are utterly ignorant about God. To your shame I say so.

⁴ In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep the light of the good news of the glorious Christ, the likeness of God, from dawning upon them. ⁵ For it is not myself but Christ Jesus that I am proclaiming as Lord; I am only a slave of yours for Jesus' sake. ⁶ For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in my heart, to give me the light of the knowledge of God's glory, that is on the face of Christ.

⁹ but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?

¹⁷ The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation through the knowledge of himself,

¹⁰ so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.

¹⁵ He is a likeness of the unseen God, born before any creature,

³ He is the reflection of God's glory, and the representation of his being, and bears up the universe by his mighty word. He has effected man's purification from sin, and has taken his seat on high at the right hand of God's Majesty,

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us power to recognize him who is true; and we are in union with him who is true, through his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

⁹ Anyone who goes too far and does not keep to the teaching of Christ has not God. It is the man who holds to the teaching who has both the Father and the Son.