Bible Strands
John 7:28
Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses the crowd in Jerusalem while teaching in the temple courts, responding to their assumption that they understand His earthly origins.
The words — Ἔκραξεν (Ekraxen) means "cried out," and διδάσκων (didaskōn) means "teaching," capturing His public proclamation amid ongoing instruction.
The thread — The tension between human claims of knowledge and divine origin runs through John 7:27 and John 7:29, while the failure to know God is paralleled in Jeremiah 9:6 and John 8:19.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to acknowledge that Jesus’ mission and authority originate solely from the true Sender, not from human genealogy or speculation.
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The Greek words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- John 8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
- John 8:19 “Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”
- Jeremiah 9:6 You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
- John 5:43 I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.
- John 8:14 Jesus replied, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going.
- John 8:26 “I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”
- John 12:49 I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
- Matthew 11:27 All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
- John 17:3 Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
- 1 John 2:3 By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.