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John 8:55

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.

KJV

καὶ οὐκ ἐγνώκατε αὐτόν, ἐγὼ δὲ οἶδα αὐτόν. κἂν εἴπω ὅτι οὐκ οἶδα αὐτόν, ἔσομαι ὅμοιος ὑμῖν ψεύστης· ἀλλὰ οἶδα αὐτὸν καὶ τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ τηρῶ.

Greek NT

et non cognovistis eum : ego autem novi eum. Et si dixero quia non scio eum, ero similis vobis, mendax. Sed scio eum, et sermonem ejus servo.

Vulgate

and ye have not known him: but I know him; and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be like unto you, a liar: but I know him, and keep his word.

ASV

And you have not known him: but I know him. And if I shall say that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him and do keep his word.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γινώσκω
ginosko
verb · 222×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἴδω
eido
verb · 317×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κἄν
kan
conditional · 16×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
λόγος
logos
noun · 330×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
τηρέω
tereo
verb · 71×
ψεύστης
pseustes
noun · 10×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
o
article · 19778×
ὅμοιος
omoios
adjective · 45×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ὑμῖν | WH/Treg/NIV: ὑμῖν | RP: ὑμῶν
  • ὑμῖνSBLGNT
  • ὑμῖνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ὑμῶνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§473But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God's Son expressed the divine life of his person.104 "The human nature of God's Son, not by itself but by its union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains to God."105 Such is first of all the case with the intimate and immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father.106 The …
Did Christ have any knowledge besides the Divine? Did He have the knowledge which the blessed or comprehensors have? Did He have an imprinted or infused knowledge? Did He have any acquired knowledge? Article 1. Whether Christ had any knowledge besides the Divine? Objection 1. It would seem that in Christ there was no knowledge except the Divine. For knowledge is necessary that …

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 28:9 — And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the
  • 1John 5:10 — He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
  • 1Sam 2:12 — Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
  • Hos 2:20 — I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
  • Hos 5:4 — They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
  • Isa 60:2 — For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
  • Job 27:4 — My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
  • John 5:42 — But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
  • John 7:28 — 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.
  • John 7:29 — But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
  • John 8:19 — Then said they unto 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 8:44 — Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
  • John 8:51 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
  • John 8:51 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
  • John 10:15 — As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • John 15:21 — But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
  • John 16:3 — And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
  • John 17:25 — O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
  • Mal 3:2 — But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
  • Matt 11:27 — All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
  • Rev 3:9 — Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.