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You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, `I don`t know him,` I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.
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Two Kinds of Knowing God
Commentators highlight a crucial distinction in the original Greek. The Jews claimed to know God, but they had not attained a true, experiential knowledge. In contrast, Jesus's knowledge of the Father is described as deep, essential, and intuitive, born from their eternal relationship. This challenges believers to examine whether their knowledge of God is merely intellectual or truly relational.
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And ye have not known him (κα ουκ εγνωκατε αυτον). Adversative use again of κα="and yet." Perfect active indicative of γινωσκω, th…
19th Century
Anglican
Yet you have not known him; but I know him.—The frequency of lip-assertion was not accompanied by any true heart-knowledg…
Baptist
Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is our God: yet ye have no…
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By using two different Greek words for “know” (GK 1182 & 3857) Jesus seems to be saying: “You have not really attained an experience of God; I have…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yet you have not known him Not as the Father of Christ, nor as in Christ, whom to know is life eternal: they had no spiritual …
Presbyterian
Christ and all who are His depend on God for honor. People may be able to dispute about God, yet may not know Him. Those who do not know God and do…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Above, our Lord had promised two things to his followers: liberation from darkness and the attainment of life, saying, he who follows…
