Bible Strands
John 17:25
Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus speaks to the Father in His high priestly prayer, immediately after asking that believers be with Him to behold His glory. The words — δίκαιε (dikaie) = righteous [G1342]; ἔγνωσεν (egnōsen) = has known [G1097]. The text declares the Father righteous and contrasts the world’s lack of recognition with the disciples’ acknowledgment that the Father sent Jesus. The thread — This theme of divine sending and recognition runs through John 7:29 (I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me) and John 15:21 (they do not know the One who sent Me). Why it lands — The verse demands a reader to acknowledge the Father’s righteousness and the reality of Jesus’ divine commission, regardless of the world’s spiritual blindness.
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The Greek words
King James Version
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
Cross-references
- John 17:11 I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
- John 7:29 but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
- John 15:21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
- John 16:27 For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
- John 17:8 For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
- Hebrews 8:11 No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.
- Luke 10:22 All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”
- John 5:19 So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
- John 8:55 You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.
- John 10:15 just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.