Usage [footnote text=“The verses below are for illustrative purposes and are not exhaustive.”]
Place of human habitation (Jn 21:25)
Creation (Acts 17:24)
Human race (Jn 3:16; 4:42) [footnote text=“1 Cor 4:9 may imply that angels are also part of the created world”]
Unbelievers; human ways that are hostile to God (Jn 7:7; 1 Cor 1:21; Jas 4:4; 1 Jn 2:16, 17)
Human existence, possessions, affairs (Mt 16:26; 1 Cor 7:33, 34)
Adornment (1 Pet 3:3)
God and the world
God
God sent His Son into the world
Jn 3:17 – For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Jn 10:36 – do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
Jn 17:18 – As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
1 Jn 4:9 – In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
1 Jn 4:14 – And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
The world does not know God
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
1 Cor 1:21 – For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
1 Jn 3:1 – See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
God loved the world
Jn 3:16 – "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
God gives to Jesus people out of the world
Jn 17:6 – "I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
The world may believe that the Father sent and loved Jesus
Jn 17:21 – that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Jn 17:23 – I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
God made the world
Acts 17:24 – The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,
God judges the world
Rom 3:6 – By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
The world is accountable to God
Rom 3:19 – Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
God has made foolish the wisdom of the world
1 Cor 1:20 – Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
God chose what is foolish and low and despised in the world
1 Cor 1:27 – But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;
1 Cor 1:28 – God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,
The wisdom of this world is folly with God
1 Cor 3:19 – For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"
God was reconciling the world to himself
2 Cor 5:19 – that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Godly grief versus worldly grief
2 Cor 7:10 – For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.
God chose believers in Christ before the foundation of the world
Eph 1:4 – even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
God has chosen those who are poor in the world
Jas 2:5 – Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
Friendship with the world is enmity with God
Jas 4:4 – You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
God did not spare the ancient world
2 Pet 2:5 – if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
All that is in the world is not from the Father
1 Jn 2:16 – For all that is in the world–the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions–is not from the Father but is from the world.
He who is in us is greater than he who is in the world
1 Jn 4:4 – Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ
Rev 11:15 – Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."
Jesus
Came into the world
Jn 1:9 – The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
Jn 3:19 – And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
Jn 6:14 – When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, "This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!"
Jn 9:39 – Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind."
Jn 11:27 – She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world."
Jn 12:46 – I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
Jn 16:28 – I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father."
Jn 18:37 – Then Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world–to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
1 Tim 1:15 – The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
Heb 10:5 – Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;
Jesus saves the world
Jn 3:17 – For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Jn 4:42 – They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world."
Jn 12:47 – If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
1 Jn 4:14 – And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Jesus is the light of the world
Jn 8:12 – Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
Jn 9:5 – As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
Jn 11:9 – Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Jn 12:46 – I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
Jesus departed out of this world
Jn 13:1 – Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Jn 16:28 – I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father."
Jn 17:11 – And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
Jesus was not of this world
Jn 8:23 – He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
Jn 17:14 – I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Jn 17:16 – They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Jesus was sent into the world
Jn 17:18 – As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
1 Jn 4:9 – In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
1 Jn 4:14 – And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Jesus gives life to the world
Jn 6:33 – For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
Jn 6:51 – I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
The world hates Jesus
Jn 7:7 – The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
Jn 15:18 – "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
The world may believe that the Father sent and loved Jesus
Jn 17:21 – that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Jn 17:23 – I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Jesus was shown all the kingdoms and glory of the world
Mt 4:8 – Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Jesus pronounced woe on the world
Mt 18:7 – "Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!
Jesus was told to show Himself to the world
Jn 7:4 – For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world."
The world was made through Jesus
Jn 1:10 – He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
The world did not know Jesus
Jn 1:10 – He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
Jesus declared to the world what He had heard from the Father
Jn 8:26 – I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."
The world had gone after Jesus
Jn 12:19 – So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him."
Jesus announces the judgment of this world
Jn 12:31 – Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
Jesus loved His own who were in the world
Jn 13:1 – Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
That the world may know that Jesus loves the Father
Jn 14:31 – but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
The world will see Jesus no more
Jn 14:19 – Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
Jesus did not manifest to the world
Jn 14:22 – Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?"
The peace of Jesus versus the peace the world gives
Jn 14:27 – Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Jesus has overcome the world
Jn 16:33 – I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."
Jesus had glory with the Father before the world existed
Jn 17:5 – And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
Jesus was not praying for the world
Jn 17:9 – I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
Jesus spoke in the world
Jn 17:13 – But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
Jesus spoke openly to the world
Jn 18:20 – Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.
Jesus’ kingdom is not of this world
Jn 18:36 – Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world."
Jesus was believed on in the world
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Jesus was known before the foundation of the world
1 Pet 1:20 – He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for your sake,
Jesus is the propitiation for the sins of the whole world
1 Jn 2:2 – He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ
Rev 11:15 – Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."
The Promised Spirit
The world cannot receive the Spirit of truth
Jn 14:17 – even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Convicts the world
Jn 16:8 – And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
People and the world
Humanity in general
Relative value of the world
Mt 16:26 – For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?
Mk 8:36 – For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
Lk 9:25 – For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
Sin of the world
Jn 1:29 – The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Being born in the world
Jn 16:21 – When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
Follows the course of this world
Eph 2:2 – in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience–
Bring nothing into the world
1 Tim 6:7 – for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.
God’s people; believers
Hated by the world
Jn 15:18 – "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Jn 15:19 – If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Jn 17:14 – I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
1 Jn 3:13 – Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
Are in the world
Jn 13:1 – Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
1 Cor 5:10 – not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
Jn 17:15 – I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
Are the light of the world
Mt 5:14 – "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
Phil 2:15 – that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
Not of the world
Jn 17:14 – I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Jn 17:16 – They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Their unity so that the world may believe
Jn 17:21 – that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Jn 17:23 – I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Not to be like the nations of the world
Lk 12:30 – For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
Losing one’s life in the world
Jn 12:25 – Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Given to Jesus by God out of the world
Jn 17:6 – "I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
Sent into the world
Jn 17:18 – As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
Faith proclaimed in all the world
Rom 1:8 – First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
Would be heir of the world
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Israel and the world
Rom 11:12 – Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
Rom 11:15 – For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
Escaped the corruption and defilements of the world
2 Pet 1:4 – by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
2 Pet 2:20 – For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
Overcoming the world
1 Jn 5:4 – For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world–our faith.
1 Jn 5:5 – Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Have not received the spirit of the world
1 Cor 2:12 – Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
The world is theirs
1 Cor 3:22 – whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future–all are yours,
Will judge the world
1 Cor 6:2 – Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
Dealing with the world
1 Cor 7:31 – and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
Ought not be condemned along with the world
1 Cor 11:32 – But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Were once enslaved to the elementary principles of the world
Gal 4:3 – In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.
Were once without hope and without God in the world
Eph 2:12 – remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Not to be taken captive according to the elemental spirits of the world
Col 2:8 – See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Not to be alive in the world
Col 2:20 – If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations–
The world was not worthy of them
Heb 11:38 – of whom the world was not worthy–wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
To keep oneself unstained from the world
Jas 1:27 – Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Not to be friends of the world
Jas 4:4 – You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Experience suffering in the world
1 Pet 5:9 – Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
Not to love the world or the things in the world
1 Jn 2:15 – Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
The world does not know us
1 Jn 3:1 – See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Loving those in need with the world’s goods
1 Jn 3:17 – But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
He who is in us is greater than he who is in the world
1 Jn 4:4 – Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
As Christ is so also are we in the world
1 Jn 4:17 – By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
Jesus’ disciples
Mk 16:15 – And he said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Jn 16:20 – Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
Apostles
1 Cor 4:9 – For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
1 Cor 4:13 – when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
2 Cor 1:12 – For our boast is this: the testimony of our conscience that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
A married person
Is anxious about worldly things
1 Cor 7:33 – But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife,
1 Cor 7:34 – and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.
Paul
Gal 6:14 – But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Noah
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
False prophets
1 Jn 4:1 – Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 Jn 4:3 – and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
1 Jn 4:5 – They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.
2 Jn 1:7 – For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
The evil one and the world
Mt 4:8 – Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Jn 12:31 – Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
Jn 14:30 – I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,
Jn 16:11 – concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
Jn 17:15 – I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
1 Jn 5:19 – We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Sin and the world
Rom 5:12 – Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned–
Rom 5:13 – for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
Jas 3:6 – And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
“World” in the Gospel according to John
Verbs with “world” as subject
Know
Jn 1:10 – He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
Jn 14:31 – but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
Jn 17:23 – I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Hate
Jn 15:18 – "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Jn 15:19 – If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Jn 17:14 – I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Is (not) able
Jn 7:7 – The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
Jn 14:17 – even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Become/is made
Jn 1:10 – He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
Be saved
Jn 3:17 – For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Go away
Jn 12:19 – So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him."
See
Jn 14:19 – Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
Give
Jn 14:27 – Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Love
Jn 15:19 – If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Rejoice
Jn 16:20 – Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
Be
Jn 17:5 – And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
Believe
Jn 17:21 – that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Contain
Jn 21:25 – Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
Verbs with “world” as object
Love
Jn 3:16 – "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Judge/condemn
Jn 3:17 – For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Jn 12:47 – If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
Give to
Jn 6:33 – For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
Reveal to
Jn 7:4 – For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world."
Save
Jn 12:47 – If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
Convict
Jn 16:8 – And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
Leave
Jn 16:28 – I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father."
Overcome
Jn 16:33 – I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."
Speak to
Jn 18:20 – Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.
… of “world”
Light
Jn 8:12 – Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
Jn 9:5 – As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
Jn 11:9 – Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Ruler
Jn 12:31 – Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
Jn 14:30 – I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,
Jn 16:11 – concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
Sin
Jn 1:29 – The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Savior
Jn 4:42 – They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world."
Life
Jn 6:51 – I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
Judgment
Jn 12:31 – Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
Creation
Jn 17:24 – Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Observations
Senses of the word “world”
It could simply denote the physical environment (Jn 16:21; 21:25)
Other than the above, the word as used in the Gospel most often alludes to not only the physical world but also human beings with their spiritual state or inclination.
In one place “world” and “people” are used synonymously (Jn 3:19)
The world is personified and takes on human actions such as
Knowing (Jn 1:10; 14:31; 17:23, 25)
Going after someone (Jn 12:19)
Loving and hating (Jn 15:18, 19; 17:14)
Seeing (Jn 14:19)
Giving (Jn 14:27)
Rejoicing (Jn 16:20)
Believing (Jn 17:21)
Jesus has spoken to the world, as if the world is a person (Jn 8:26; 18:20)
“Life in this world” refers to a person’s present existence, which may either be lost or be kept to eternal life (Jn 12:25).
The world’s origin
The world is God’s creation (Jn 1:10)
There was a point in which the world did not exist (17:5)
There was a point in which the world was founded (17:24)
The world is in need of salvation
The world is laden with sin (Jn 1:29)
The world has become a place of darkness (Jn 3:19; 8:12; 12:46)
God and the world
God loves the world by giving His only Son (Jn 3:16)
God sent His Son into the world that the world might be saved through Him (Jn 3:17)
Jesus did not come to judge the world but to save the world (Jn 12:47)
Jesus came as the light of the world (Jn 1:9; 8:12; 9:5; 11:9; 12:46)
Jesus is the lamb who takes away the sins of the world (Jn 1:29)
Jesus is the bread who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world (Jn 6:33)
Jesus is the Savior of the world (Jn 4:42)
Jesus has come into the world (Jn 1:9; 3:17, 19; 9:39; 10:36; 12:46; 16:28; 17:18; 18:37)
Jesus is not of this world (Jn 8:23; 17:14, 16)
Jesus departed from the world (Jn 16:28)
Jesus is coming into the world (Jn 6:14; 11:27)
Jesus has overcome the world (Jn 16:33)
Jesus’ kingdom is not of this world (Jn 18:36)
The world is capable of accepting Jesus Christ
God’s purpose is that the world may know His love (Jn 14:31; 17:23)
The world is able to believe in Jesus Christ (Jn 3:16; 12:46; 17:21)
The world represents forces opposed to God
The world does not know God or Jesus (Jn 1:10; 17:25)
The world hated Jesus (Jn 15:18)
The world hates Jesus’ disciples (Jn 15:18, 19; 17:14)
The world is under a ruler (Jn 12:31; 14:30; Jn 16:11)
The world is judged (Jn 12:31)
The Spirit of truth will convict the world (Jn 16:8)
The world will rejoice after Jesus’ departure (Jn 16:20)
Jesus has overcome the world (Jn 16:33)
The evil one is in the world (Jn 17:15)
The disciples and the world
The disciples are not of the world (Jn 15:19; 17:14, 16)
Jesus chose the disciples out of the world (Jn 15:19)
Jesus does not pray that the disciples be taken out of the world, but that they be kept from the evil one (Jn 17:15)
Jesus has sent the disciples into the world (Jn 17:18)
The world may believe through the disciples (Jn 17:21)
The world may know God through the disciples (Jn 17:23)
Words related grammatically to “World”
Subjects of "World" (κόσμος)
Field, ἀγρός
Mt 13:38 – The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
Verbs with "World" (κόσμος) as Subject
To know, γινώσκω
Jn 1:10 – He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Jn 14:31 – But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
Jn 17:23 – I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Jn 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.
1 Cor 1:21 – For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
1 Jn 3:1 – Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
To hate, μισέω
Jn 7:7 – The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
Jn 15:18 – If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
Jn 15:19 – If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Jn 17:14 – I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
1 Jn 3:13 – Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
To be, γίνομαι
Jn 1:10 – He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Rom 3:19 – Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Be able, δύναμαι
Jn 7:7 – The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Jn 14:17 – Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
To be, εἰμί
Jn 17:5 – And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Heb 11:38 – (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
To save, σῴζω
Jn 3:17 – For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
To go away, ἀπέρχομαι
Jn 12:19 – The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
To see/experience, θεωρέω
Jn 14:19 – Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
To give, δίδωμι
Jn 14:27 – Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
To love, φιλέω
Jn 15:19 – If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
To rejoice, χαίρω
Jn 16:20 – Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
To trust (in), πιστεύω
Jn 17:21 – That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
To make room for, χωρέω
Jn 21:25 – And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
To judge, κρίνω
1 Cor 6:2 – Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
To crucify, σταυρόω
Gal 6:14 – But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
To destroy, ἀπολλύω
2 Pet 3:6 – Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
To pass, παράγω
1 Jn 2:17 – And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
To hear, ἀκούω
1 Jn 4:5 – They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
To lay/be appointed, κεῖμαι
1 Jn 5:19 – And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
Verbs with "World" (κόσμος) as Object
To judge, κρίνω
Jn 3:17 – For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Jn 12:47 – And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Rom 3:6 – God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
1 Cor 6:2 – Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
To gain, κερδαίνω
Mt 16:26 – For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Mk 8:36 – For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Lk 9:25 – For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
To conquer, νικάω
Jn 16:33 – These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
1 Jn 5:4 – For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1 Jn 5:5 – Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
To love, ἀγαπάω
Jn 3:16 – For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 Jn 2:15 – Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
To save, σῴζω
Jn 12:47 – And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
To rebuke, ἐλέγχω
Jn 16:8 – And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
To release, ἀφίημι
Jn 16:28 – I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
To do/make, ποιέω
Acts 17:24 – God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
To use, χράω
1 Cor 7:31 – And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
To reconcile, καταλλάσσω
2 Cor 5:19 – To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
To condemn, κατακρίνω
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
To spare, φείδομαι
2 Pet 2:5 – And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Verbs with "World" (κόσμος) as Indirect Object
To give, δίδωμι
Jn 6:33 – For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
To manifest, φανερόω
Jn 7:4 – For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world.
To speak, λαλέω
Jn 18:20 – Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.
To bring upon, ἐπάγω
2 Pet 2:5 – And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Adjectives Modifying "World" (κόσμος)
All, ὅλος
Mt 16:26 – For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Mt 26:13 – Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Mk 8:36 – For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mk 14:9 – Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
Lk 9:25 – For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Rom 1:8 – First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
1 Jn 2:2 – And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 Jn 5:19 – And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
All, πᾶς
Rom 3:19 – Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Col 1:6 – Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
All, ἅπας
Mk 16:15 – And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Ancient, ἀρχαῖος
2 Pet 2:5 – And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Adverbs Modifying "World" (κόσμος)
And, καί
Jn 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.
Outside, ἔξωθεν
1 Pet 3:3 – Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Then, τότε
2 Pet 3:6 – Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
Words Modified by "World" (κόσμος)
To be, γίνομαι
1 Cor 4:9 – For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Poor, πτωχός
Jas 2:5 – Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Predicates of "World" (κόσμος)
Accountable, ὑπόδικος
Rom 3:19 – Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
You, σύ
1 Cor 3:22 – Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
Worthy, ἄξιος
Heb 11:38 – (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Appositions with "World" (κόσμος)
All, πᾶς
1 Cor 3:22 – Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
Prepositions with "World" (κόσμος)
In/on/among, ἐν
Mt 26:13 – Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Jn 1:10 – He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Jn 9:5 – As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Jn 12:25 – He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Jn 13:1 – Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Jn 16:33 – These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Jn 17:11 – And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
Jn 17:13 – And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
Rom 1:8 – First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
Rom 5:13 – (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
1 Cor 8:4 – As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice untoidols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
1 Cor 14:10 – There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
2 Cor 1:12 – For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you -ward.
Eph 2:12 – That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Phil 2:15 – That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Col 1:6 – Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
Col 2:20 – Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
1 Tim 3:16 – And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
1 Pet 5:9 – Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
2 Pet 1:4 – Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
1 Jn 2:15 – Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 Jn 2:16 – For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 Jn 4:3 – And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
1 Jn 4:4 – Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1 Jn 4:17 – Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
Toward, εἰς
Mk 14:9 – Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
Mk 16:15 – And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Jn 1:9 – That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Jn 3:17 – For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Jn 3:19 – And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Jn 6:14 – Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
Jn 8:26 – I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
Jn 9:39 – And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
Jn 10:36 – Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
Jn 11:27 – She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
Jn 12:46 – I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
Jn 16:21 – A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Jn 16:28 – I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
Jn 17:18 – As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
Jn 18:37 – Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Rom 5:12 – Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
1 Tim 1:15 – This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
1 Tim 6:7 – For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
Heb 10:5 – Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
1 Jn 4:1 – Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 Jn 4:9 – In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
2 Jn 1:7 – For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Of/from, ἐκ
Jn 8:23 – And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
Jn 13:1 – Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Jn 15:19 – If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Jn 17:6 – I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
Jn 17:14 – I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Jn 17:15 – I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Jn 17:16 – They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Jn 18:36 – Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
1 Cor 5:10 – Yet not altogether the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
1 Jn 2:16 – For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 Jn 4:5 – They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
About, περί
Jn 17:9 – I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
1 Jn 2:2 – And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
With, σύν
1 Cor 11:32 – But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
From, ἀπό
Jas 1:27 – Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
… of "World" (κόσμος)
Beginning, καταβολή
Mt 13:35 – This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world."
Mt 25:34 – Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Lk 11:50 – That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
Jn 17:24 – Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Eph 1:4 – According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Heb 4:3 – For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb 9:26 – For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
1 Pet 1:20 – Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Rev 13:8 – And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Rev 17:8 – The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Light, φῶς
Mt 5:14 – Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
Jn 8:12 – Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Jn 9:5 – As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Jn 11:9 – Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
Ruler, ἄρχων
Jn 12:31 – Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
Jn 14:30 – Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
Jn 16:11 – Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
Principle, στοιχεῖον
Gal 4:3 – Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Col 2:8 – Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Col 2:20 – Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
Kingdom, βασιλεία
Mt 4:8 – Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
Rev 11:15 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever.
Savior, σωτήρ
Jn 4:42 – And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.
1 Jn 4:14 – And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
Wisdom, σοφία
1 Cor 1:20 – Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1 Cor 3:19 – For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
The/this/who, ὁ
1 Cor 7:33 – But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
1 Cor 7:34 – There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Beginning, ἀρχή
Mt 24:21 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Gentiles, ἔθνος
Lk 12:30 – For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
Sin, ἁμαρτία
Jn 1:29 – The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Life, ζωή
Jn 6:51 – I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Judgment, κρίσις
Jn 12:31 – Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
Creation, κτίσις
Rom 1:20 – For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Heir, κληρονόμος
Rom 4:13 – For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Riches, πλοῦτος
Rom 11:12 – Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
Reconciliation, καταλλαγή
Rom 11:15 – For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Weak, ἀσθενής
1 Cor 1:27 – But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
Foolish, μωρός
1 Cor 1:27 – But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
Lowly, ἀγενής
1 Cor 1:28 – And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are:
Spirit/breath, πνεῦμα
1 Cor 2:12 – Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Garbage, περικάθαρμα
1 Cor 4:13 – Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Sexual sinner, πόρνος
1 Cor 5:10 – Yet not altogether the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
Form, σχῆμα
1 Cor 7:31 – And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Grief, λύπη
2 Cor 7:10 – For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
An age, αἰών
Eph 2:2 – Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Friendship, φιλία
Jas 4:4 – Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Friendly/friend, φίλος
Jas 4:4 – Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Defilement, μίασμα
2 Pet 2:20 – For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Life, βίος
1 Jn 3:17 – But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
"World" (κόσμος) of …
Unrighteousness, ἀδικία
Jas 3:6 – And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Braiding, ἐμπλοκή
1 Pet 3:3 – Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Wearing, ἔνδυσις
1 Pet 3:3 – Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Wearing, περίθεσις
1 Pet 3:3 – Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Ungodly, ἀσεβής
2 Pet 2:5 – And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Verbal Copula of "World" (κόσμος)
To be, εἰμί
Mt 13:38 – The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
1 Pet 3:3 – Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
"World" (κόσμος) and …
The/this/who, ὁ
Acts 17:24 – God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
1 Jn 2:15 – Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Desire, ἐπιθυμία
1 Jn 2:17 – And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
Jn 1:14 – And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Jn 1:17 – For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Jn 14:6 – Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
God’s word is truth
Jn 17:17 – Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
Pilate asks “What is truth?”
Jn 18:38 – Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.
Who or what is true
Testimony
Jn 5:31 – If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true.
Jn 5:32 – There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.
Jn 8:13 – So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.”
Jn 8:14 – Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Jn 8:17 – In your Law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.
Jn 19:35 – He who saw it has borne witness–his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth–that you also may believe.
Jn 21:24 – This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
God the Father
Jn 3:33 – Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.
Jn 7:28 – So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
Jn 8:26 – I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”
Jn 17:3 – And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Jesus
Light
Jn 1:9 – The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
Bread
Jn 6:32 – Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
The one who seeks the glory of Him who sent Him
Jn 7:18 – The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
Vine
Jn 15:1 – “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
Worshipper
Jn 4:23 – But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
Saying
Jn 4:37 – For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
Food and drink
Jn 6:55 – For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Jesus’ judgment
Jn 8:16 – Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
Everything John said about Jesus
Jn 10:41 – And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”
Verbs with “truth” as object
Say
Jn 8:45 – But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
Jn 8:46 – Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
Jn 16:7 – Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
Worship in
Jn 4:23 – But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
Jn 4:24 – God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Bear witness to
Jn 5:33 – You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
Jn 18:37 – Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world–to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
Sanctify in
Jn 17:17 – Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
Jn 17:19 – And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
Do
Jn 3:21 – But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been carried out in God.”
Know
Jn 8:32 – and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Speak
Jn 8:40 – but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
Stand firm in
Jn 8:44 – You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Be of
Jn 18:37 – Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world–to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
Verbs with “truth” as subject
Set free
Jn 8:32 – and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
The Spirit of truth
Jn 14:17 – even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Jn 15:26 – “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
Jn 16:13 – When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
… and truth
Grace
Jn 1:14 – And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Jn 1:17 – For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Spirit
Jn 4:23 – But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
Jn 4:24 – God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Verbs modified by “truly”
Be
Jn 4:42 – They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Jn 6:14 – When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”
Jn 7:40 – When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This really is the Prophet.”
John 8:31 – So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
Know
Jn 7:26 – And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?
Jn 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
“Truly” used independently
Jn 1:47 – Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”
“Truly, truly, I say to you”
John 1:51 – And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
John 3:3 – Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:5 – Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:11 – Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
John 5:19 – So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
John 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 5:25 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
John 6:26 – Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.
John 6:32 – Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
John 6:47 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
John 6:53 – So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
John 8:34 – Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
John 8:51 – Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”
John 8:58 – Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
John 10:1 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.
John 10:7 – So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
John 12:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
John 13:16 – Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
John 13:20 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”
John 13:21 – After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”
John 13:38 – Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.
John 14:12 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
John 16:20 – Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
John 16:23 – In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
John 21:18 – Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.”
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<topic id=”392” startswith=”” nth=””>“Testimony”, “Witness” in John</topic>
Jn 3:11 – Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
Jn 3:32 – He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.
Jn 3:33 – Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.
Jn 4:44 – (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)
Jn 5:31 – If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true.
Jn 5:32 – There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.
Jn 5:36 – But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
Jn 7:7 – The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
Jn 8:13 – So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.”
Jn 8:14 – Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Jn 8:18 – I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
Jn 13:21 – After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”
Jn 18:37 – Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world–to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
John
Jn 1:7 – He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
Jn 1:8 – He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.Jn 1:15 – (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.'”)
Jn 1:15 – (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’ ”)
Jn 1:19 – And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
Jn 1:32 – And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.
Jn 1:34 – And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”
Jn 3:26 – And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness–look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”
Jn 5:33 – You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
Jesus’ works
Jn 5:36 – But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
Jn 10:25 – Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me,
The Father
Jn 5:36 – But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
Jn 5:37 – And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,
Jn 8:18 – I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
John’s disciples
Jn 3:28 – You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’
The Samaritan woman
John 4:39 – Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
The Scriptures
Jn 5:39 – You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
Two men
Jn 8:17 – In your Law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.
The crowd
Jn 12:17 – The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness.
The Spirit, the Helper
Jn 15:26 – “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
Jesus’ disciples
John 15:27 – And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
He who saw at the cross
Jn 19:35 – He who saw it has borne witness–his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth–that you also may believe.
The disciple
Jn 21:24 – This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
Anyone
Jn 2:25 – and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.
What Jesus witnesses
What He has seen
Jn 3:11 – Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
What He has seen and heard
Jn 3:32 – He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.
Bear witness to
The truth
Jn 5:33 – You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
Jn 18:37 – Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world–to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
Jesus
Jn 3:26 – And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”
John
Jn 3:28 – You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’
Bear witness about
Jesus
Jn 1:15 – (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.'”)
Jn 2:25 – and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.
Jn 5:31 – If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true.
Jn 5:32 – There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.
Jn 5:36 – But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
Jn 5:37 – And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,
Jn 5:39 – You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
Jn 8:13 – So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.”
Jn 8:14 – Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Jn 8:18 – I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
Jn 10:25 – Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me,
Jn 15:26 – “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
Jn 15:27 – And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning. [footnote text=“It is implied from the previous verse that the disciples will bear witness about Jesus.”]
The light
Jn 1:7 – He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
Jn 1:8 – He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
The world
Jn 7:7 – The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
The wrong
Jn 18:23 – Jesus answered him, “If what I said is wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said is right, why do you strike me?”
These things
Jn 21:24 – This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
Attributes of Testimony
True
Jn 5:31 – If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true.
Jn 5:32 – There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.
Jn 8:13 – So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.”
Jn 8:14 – Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Jn 8:17 – In your Law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.
Jn 19:35 – He who saw it has borne witness–his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth–that you also may believe.
Jn 21:24 – This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
Receive/has testimony
Receiving Jesus’ Testimony
Jn 3:11 – Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
Jn 3:32 – He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.
Jn 3:33 – Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.
The testimony Jesus receives/has
Jn 5:34 – Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
John 5:36 – But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
What enables someone to be a witness
Seeing
Jn 1:32 – And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.”
Jn 1:34 – And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”
Jn 3:11 – Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
Jn 3:32 – He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.
Jn 19:35 – He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.
Knowing
Jn 3:11 – Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
Jn 8:14 – “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Jn 19:35 – He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.
Hearing
Jn 3:28 – You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’
Jn 3:32 – He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.
Jn 5:37 – And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,
Being present
Jn 12:17 – The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness.
Jn 15:27 – And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
Dan 7:13 – I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.
בֵּן אִישׁ (son of man, son of a man, sons of man, sons of men)
Son of an individual
Gen 42:11 – We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies.”
Gen 42:13 – And they said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.”
Lev 24:10 – Now an Israelite woman’s son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel. And the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought in the camp,
1 Sam 9:1 – There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth.
1 Sam 17:12 – Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.
2 Sam 1:13 – And David said to the young man who told him, “Where do you come from?” And he answered, “I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.”
2 Sam 17:25 – Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
2 Sam 23:20 – And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.
1 Chr 11:22 – And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two heroes of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.
Men in general
Ps 4:2 – O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah
Ps 49:2 – both low and high, rich and poor together!
Ps 62:9 – Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
Ps 144:3 – O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?
Lam 3:33 – for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.
Parallel to “man”
Ps 144:3 – O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?
בְּנֵי אָדָם (son of man, son of a man, sons of man, sons of men)
Parallel to “man”
אִישׁ
Num 23:19 – God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Job 35:8 – Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
Ps 80:17 – But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
Jer 49:18 – As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities were overthrown, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.
Jer 49:33 – Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals, an everlasting waste; no man shall dwell there; no man shall sojourn in her.”
Jer 50:40 – As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the LORD, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.
Jer 51:43 – Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.
אֱנֹושׁ
Job 25:6 – how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!”
Ps 8:4 – what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
Isa 51:12 – “I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,
Isa 56:2 – Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
Contrasted with God
Num 23:19 – God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Ps 146:3 – Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
Ps 146:4 – When his breath departs he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
Ps 146:5 – Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
The prophet addressed as “son of man”
Ezek 2:1 – And he said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”
Ezek 2:3 – And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
Ezek 2:6 – And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.
Ezek 2:8 – “But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”
Ezek 3:1 – And he said to me, “Son of man, eat whatever you find here. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”
Ezek 3:3 – And he said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.
Ezek 3:4 – And he said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them.
Ezek 3:10 – Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
Ezek 3:17 – “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.
Ezek 3:25 – And you, O son of man, behold, cords will be placed upon you, and you shall be bound with them, so that you cannot go out among the people.
Ezek 4:1 – “And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem.
Ezek 4:16 – Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.
Ezek 5:1 – “And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair.
Ezek 6:2 – “Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
Ezek 7:2 – “And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
Ezek 8:5 – Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy.
Ezek 8:6 – And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”
Ezek 8:8 – Then he said to me, “Son of man, dig in the wall.” So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance.
Ezek 8:12 – Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, ‘The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.'”
Ezek 8:15 – Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these.”
Ezek 8:17 – Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
Ezek 11:2 – And he said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;
Ezek 11:4 – Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.”
Ezek 11:15 – “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, your kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far from the LORD; to us this land is given for a possession.’
Ezek 12:2 – “Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house.
Ezek 12:3 – As for you, son of man, prepare for yourself an exile’s baggage, and go into exile by day in their sight. You shall go like an exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.
Ezek 12:9 – “Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’
Ezek 12:18 – “Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with anxiety.
Ezek 12:22 – “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have about the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days grow long, and every vision comes to nothing’?
Ezek 12:27 – “Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off.’
Ezek 13:2 – “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts: ‘Hear the word of the LORD!’
Ezek 13:17 – “And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own minds. Prophesy against them
Ezek 14:3 – “Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?
Ezek 14:13 – “Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,
Ezek 15:2 – “Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any wood, the vine branch that is among the trees of the forest?
Ezek 16:2 – “Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
Ezek 17:2 – “Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
Ezek 20:3 – “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD, Is it to inquire of me that you come? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
Ezek 20:4 – Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Let them know the abominations of their fathers,
Ezek 20:27 – “Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: In this also your fathers blasphemed me, by dealing treacherously with me.
Ezek 20:46 – “Son of man, set your face toward the southland; preach against the south, and prophesy against the forest land in the Negeb.
Ezek 21:2 – “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel
Ezek 21:6 – “As for you, son of man, groan; with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan before their eyes.
Ezek 21:9 – “Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord; Say: “A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished,
Ezek 21:12 – Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people. It is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Strike therefore upon your thigh.
Ezek 21:14 – “As for you, son of man, prophesy. Clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, yes, three times, the sword for those to be slain. It is the sword for the great slaughter, which surrounds them,
Ezek 21:19 – “As for you, son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to a city.
Ezek 21:28 – “And you, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; say, A sword, a sword is drawn for the slaughter. It is polished to consume and to flash like lightning–
Ezek 22:2 – “And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
Ezek 22:18 – “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver.
Ezek 22:24 – “Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation.
Ezek 23:2 – “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
Ezek 23:36 – The LORD said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.
Ezek 24:2 – “Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.
Ezek 24:16 – “Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall your tears run down.
Ezek 24:25 – “As for you, son of man, surely on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their soul’s desire, and also their sons and daughters,
Ezek 25:2 – “Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
Ezek 26:2 – “Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,’
Ezek 27:2 – “Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,
Ezek 28:2 – “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god–
Ezek 28:12 – “Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: “You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Ezek 28:21 – “Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her
Ezek 29:2 – “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt;
Ezek 29:18 – “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against her.
Ezek 30:2 – “Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
Ezek 30:21 – “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, it has not been bound up, to heal it by binding it with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword.
Ezek 31:2 – “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: “Whom are you like in your greatness?
Ezek 32:2 – “Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: “You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.
Ezek 32:18 – “Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:
Ezek 33:2 – “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman,
Ezek 33:7 – “So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.
Ezek 33:10 – “And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: ‘Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we rot away because of them. How then can we live?’
Ezek 33:12 – “And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins.
Ezek 33:24 – “Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.’
Ezek 33:30 – “As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.’
Ezek 34:2 – “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?
Ezek 35:2 – “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
Ezek 36:1 – “And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.
Ezek 36:17 – “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.
Ezek 37:3 – And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord GOD, you know.”
Ezek 37:9 – Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”
Ezek 37:11 – Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.’
Ezek 37:16 – “Son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’
Ezek 38:2 – “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him
Ezek 38:14 – “Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it?
Ezek 39:1 – “And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
Ezek 39:17 – “As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field, ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.
Ezek 40:4 – And the man said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”
Ezek 43:7 – and he said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies of their kings at their high places,
Ezek 43:10 – “As for you, son of man, describe to the house of Israel the temple, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and they shall measure the plan.
Ezek 43:18 – And he said to me, “Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: These are the ordinances for the altar: On the day when it is erected for offering burnt offerings upon it and for throwing blood against it,
Ezek 44:5 – And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I shall tell you concerning all the statutes of the temple of the LORD and all its laws. And mark well the entrance to the temple and all the exits from the sanctuary.
Ezek 47:6 – And he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?”Then he led me back to the bank of the river.
Dan 8:17 – So he came near where I stood. And when he came, I was frightened and fell on my face. But he said to me, “Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end.”
References to sons of man or sons of men (plural)
All references
Gen 11:5 – And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
Deut 32:8 – When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
1 Sam 26:19 – Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the LORD who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
2 Sam 7:14 – I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,
1 Kgs 8:39 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
2 Chr 6:30 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,
Ps 11:4 – The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD’s throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test, the children of man.
Ps 12:1 – Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
Ps 12:8 – On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man.
Ps 14:2 – The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
Ps 21:10 – You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man.
Ps 31:19 – Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!
Ps 33:13 – The LORD looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man;
Ps 36:7 – How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
Ps 45:2 – You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.
Ps 49:2 – both low and high, rich and poor together!
Ps 53:2 – God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
Ps 57:4 – My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts–the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
Ps 58:1 – Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
Ps 62:9 – Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
Ps 66:5 – Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.
Ps 89:47 – Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
Ps 90:3 – You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!”
Ps 107:8 – Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of men!
Ps 107:15 – Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of men!
Ps 107:21 – Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of men!
Ps 107:31 – Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of men!
Ps 115:16 – The heavens are the LORD’s heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.
Ps 145:12 – to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
Prov 8:4 – “To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man.
Prov 8:31 – rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.
Prov 15:11 – Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD; how much more the hearts of the children of man!
Eccl 1:13 – And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
Eccl 2:3 – I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine–my heart still guiding me with wisdom–and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
Eccl 2:8 – I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, the delight of the children of man.
Eccl 3:10 – I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
Eccl 3:18 – I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.
Eccl 3:19 – For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.
Eccl 3:21 – Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?
Eccl 8:11 – Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
Eccl 9:3 – This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Eccl 9:12 – For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
Isa 52:14 – As many were astonished at you–his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind–
Jer 32:19 – great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Ezek 31:14 – All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, to the world below, among the children of man, with those who go down to the pit.
Dan 10:16 – And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, “O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength.
Joel 1:12 – The vine dries up; the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and gladness dries up from the children of man.
Mic 5:7 – Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which delay not for a man nor wait for the children of man.
Parallel terms
Nations, גֹּוי
Deut 32:8 – When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Men, man,
אִישׁ
2 Sam 7:14 – I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,
Prov 8:4 – “To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man.
Isa 52:14 – As many were astonished at you–his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind–
Mic 5:7 – Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which delay not for a man nor wait for the children of man.
אֱנֹושׁ
Ps 90:3 – You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!”
Earth, אֶרֶץ
Ps 21:10 – You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man.
Prov 8:31 – rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.
בְּנֵי אָדָם used in parallel with בְּנֵי אִישׁ (both translated as “sons of man”) [footnote text=“The ESV chooses not to translate the two terms literally in the following verses but instead use "low" and "high" to contrast them.”]
Ps 49:2 – both low and high, rich and poor together!
Ps 62:9 – Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
Aramaic term
בַר אֱנָשׁ (a son of man)
Dan 7:13 – I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.
Greek term
ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου [footnote text=“The term does not have the definite article in John 5:27, Rev 1:13, and Rev 14:14.”]
Jesus’ self-designation
Coming of the Son of Man
Mt 10:23 – When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
Mt 11:19 – The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”
Mt 13:41 – The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers,
Mt 16:27 – For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
Mt 16:28 – Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
Mt 24:27 – For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Mt 24:30 – Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mt 24:37 – As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Mt 24:39 – and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Mt 24:44 – Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
Mt 25:31 – “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
Mt 26:64 – Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
Mk 8:38 – For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
Mk 13:26 – And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
Mk 14:62 – And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”
Lk 7:34 – The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
Lk 9:26 – For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
Lk 12:40 – You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
Lk 17:22 – And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
Lk 17:24 – For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
Lk 17:26 – Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
Lk 17:30 – so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
Lk 18:8 – I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
Lk 19:10 – For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Lk 21:27 – And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Lk 21:36 – But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Lk 22:69 – But from now on the Son of Man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”
Suffering, death, and resurrection of the Son of Man
Mt 12:40 – For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Mt 17:9 – And as they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Tell no one the vision, until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”
Mt 17:12 – But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man will certainly suffer at their hands.”
Mt 17:22 – As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men,
Mt 20:18 – “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death
Mt 20:28 – even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Mt 26:2 – “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
Mt 26:24 – The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”
Mt 26:45 – Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Mk 8:31 – And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mk 9:9 – And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
Mk 9:12 – And he said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things. And how is it written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
Mk 9:31 – for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.”
Mk 10:33 – saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.
Mk 10:45 – For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Mk 14:21 – For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”
Mk 14:41 – And he came the third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Lk 9:22 – saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”
Lk 9:44 – “Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”
Lk 11:30 – For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
Lk 18:31 – And taking the twelve, he said to them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.
Lk 22:22 – For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”
Lk 22:48 – but Jesus said to him, “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”
Lk 24:7 – that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.”
Lowliness of the Son of Man
Mt 8:20 – And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Mt 20:28 – even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Mk 10:45 – For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Lk 9:58 – And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Authority of the Son of Man
Mt 9:6 – But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”–he then said to the paralytic–“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.”
Mk 2:10 – But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”–he said to the paralytic–
Lk 5:24 – But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”–he said to the man who was paralyzed–“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.”
The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath
Mt 12:8 – For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
Mk 2:28 – So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
Lk 6:5 – And he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
The Son of Man and heaven
Jn 1:51 – And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
Jn 3:13 – No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
Jn 6:62 – Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
Lifting up of the Son of Man
Jn 3:14 – And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
Jn 8:28 – So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
Jn 12:34 – So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
Speaking a word against the Son of Man
Mt 12:32 – And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
Lk 12:10 – And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
Judgment of the Son of Man
Mt 19:28 – Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Jn 5:27 – And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
The Son of Man gives food for eternal life
Jn 6:27 – Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
Jn 6:53 – So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
The Son of Man is glorified
Jn 12:23 – And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Jn 13:31 – When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
Belief in the Son of Man
Jn 9:35 – Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
Other references to the Son of Man
Mt 13:37 – He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
Mt 16:13 – Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”
Lk 6:22 – “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
Lk 12:8 – “And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God,
Stephen’s reference to the Son of Man
Acts 7:56 – And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
“One like a son of man”
Rev 1:13 – and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest.
Rev 14:14 – Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.
Parallel with “man”
Heb 2:6 – It has been testified somewhere, “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him?
Reference to sons of men (plural)
Mk 3:28 – “Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter,
Eph 3:5 – which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.
John 3:17 – For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:34 – For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.
John 4:34 – Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
John 5:23 – that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
John 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 5:30 – “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 5:36 – But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
John 5:37 – And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,
John 5:38 – and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.
John 6:29 – Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
John 6:38 – For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 6:39 – And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
John 6:44 – No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:57 – As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.
John 7:16 – So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
John 7:18 – The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
John 7:28 – So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
John 7:29 – I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”
John 7:33 – Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
John 8:16 – Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
John 8:18 – I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
John 8:26 – I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”
John 8:29 – And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
John 8:42 – Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
John 9:4 – We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
John 10:36 – do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
John 11:42 – I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”
John 12:44 – And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.
John 12:45 – And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.
John 12:49 – For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.
John 13:20 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”
John 14:24 – Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
John 15:21 – But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
John 16:5 – But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
John 17:3 – And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
John 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
John 17:18 – As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
John 17:21 – that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
John 17:23 – I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
John 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
John 20:21 – Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
Sends the Holy Spirit
John 14:26 – But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Sends John
John 1:6 – There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
John 1:33 – I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
Jesus
John 4:38 – I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
John 13:20 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”
John 15:26 – “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
John 16:7 – Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
John 20:21 – Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
Jews
John 1:19 – And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
John 1:22 – So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
John 5:33 – You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
Chief priests and Pharisees
John 7:32 – The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
Sisters of Lazarus
John 11:3 – So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”
Annas
John 18:24 – Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
Who is sent
Jesus, the Son of God
By God the Father
John 3:17 – For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:34 – For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.
John 4:34 – Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
John 5:23 – that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
John 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 5:30 – “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 5:36 – But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
John 5:37 – And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,
John 5:38 – and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.
John 6:29 – Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
John 6:38 – For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 6:39 – And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
John 6:44 – No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:57 – As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.
John 7:16 – So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
John 7:18 – The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
John 7:28 – So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
John 7:29 – I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”
John 7:33 – Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
John 8:16 – Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
John 8:18 – I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
John 8:26 – I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”
John 8:29 – And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
John 8:42 – Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
John 9:4 – We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
John 10:36 – do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
John 11:42 – I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”
John 12:44 – And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.
John 12:45 – And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.
John 12:49 – For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.
John 13:20 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”
John 14:24 – Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
John 15:21 – But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
John 16:5 – But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
John 17:3 – And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
John 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
John 17:18 – As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
John 17:21 – that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
John 17:23 – I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
John 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
John 20:21 – Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
By Annas
John 18:24 – Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
Holy Spirit
John 14:26 – But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
John 15:26 – “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
John 16:7 – Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
John
John 1:6 – There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
John 1:33 – I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
John 3:28 – You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’
Priests and Levites
John 1:22 – So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
John 1:24 – (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)
Disciples
John 4:38 – I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
John 13:20 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”
Officers
John 7:32 – The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
A messenger
John 13:16 – Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
The disciples
John 20:21 – Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
Send with preposition
Into, εἰς
Jn 3:17 – For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Jn 10:36 – do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
Jn 17:18 – As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
To, πρός
Jn 1:19 – And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
Jn 5:33 – You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
Jn 11:3 – So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”
Jn 16:7 – Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
Jn 18:24 – Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
From, παρά
John 1:6 – There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Jn 15:26 – “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
From, ἐκ
Jn 1:19 – And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
John 1:24 – (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)
Before, ἔμπροσθεν
Jn 3:28 – You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’
In, ἐν
Jn 14:26 – But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Meaning of Siloam
John 9:7 – and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
Jn 3:19 – And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
Jn 3:20 – For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
Jn 3:21 – But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been carried out in God.”
Jn 8:12 – Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Jn 9:5 – As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Jn 11:9 – Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Jn 12:35 – So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Jn 12:46 – I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
In Him was life, the light of men
Jn 1:4 – In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
He is the true light
Jn 1:9 – The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
What the light does
Comes into the world
Jn 1:9 – The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
Jn 3:19 – And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
Jn 12:46 – I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
Shines
Jn 1:5 – The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Enlightens
Jn 1:9 – The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
Reveals
Jn 3:21 – But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been carried out in God.”
Verbs with light as object
Have
Jn 8:12 – Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Jn 12:35 – So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Jn 12:36 – While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
Come to
Jn 3:20 – For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
Jn 3:21 – But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been carried out in God.”
Bear witness about
Jn 1:7 – He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
Jn 1:8 – He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
See
Jn 11:9 – Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Believe
John 12:36 – While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
Hate
Jn 3:20 – For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
… of light
Son
Jn 12:36 – While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
Light of …
World
Jn 8:12 – Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Jn 9:5 – As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Jn 11:9 – Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Him (John)
Jn 5:35 – He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
Life
Jn 8:12 – Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Man
Jn 1:4 – In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John and the light
He is not the light
Jn 1:8 – He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
Jn 1:7 – He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
Jn 1:8 – He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
He also shone light, but as a lamp
Jn 5:35 – He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
He bore witness about the light
Jn 1:7 – He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
Jn 1:8 – He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
Light as opposed to darkness
Jn 1:5 – The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Jn 3:19 – And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
Jn 8:12 – Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Jn 12:35 – So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Jn 12:46 – I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
Words related to light
Day
John 9:4 – We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
Night
John 9:4 – We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
John 11:10 – But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
John 13:30 – So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.
Jn 1:48 – Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
Jn 2:24 – But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people
Jn 2:25 – and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.
Jn 4:1 – Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
Jn 5:6 – When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
Jn 5:32 – There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.
Jn 5:42 – But I know that you do not have the love of God within you.
Jn 6:6 – He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
Jn 6:15 – Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
Jn 6:61 – But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this?
Jn 6:64 – But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
Jn 7:15 – The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”
Jn 7:29 – I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”
Jn 8:14 – Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Jn 8:37 – I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.
Jn 8:55 – But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
Jn 10:14 – I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,
Jn 10:15 – just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Jn 10:27 – My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Jn 11:42 – I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”
Jn 12:50 – And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”
Jn 13:1 – Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Jn 13:3 – Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
Jn 13:11 – For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
Jn 13:18 – I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’
Jn 16:19 – Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?
Jn 16:30 – Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.”
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Jn 18:4 – Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”
Jn 19:28 – After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.”
Jn 21:15 – When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
Jn 21:16 – He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
Jn 21:17 – He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
Disciples
Jn 6:69 – and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
Jn 8:32 – and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Jn 13:7 – Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”
Jn 13:12 – When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you?
Jn 13:17 – If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Jn 14:4 – And you know the way to where I am going.”
Jn 14:7 – If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Jn 14:17 – even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Jn 14:20 – In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
Jn 15:15 – No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Jn 15:18 – “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Jn 17:3 – And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Jn 16:30 – Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.”
Jn 21:12 – Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” Now none of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord.
Jews
Jn 6:42 – They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
Jn 7:27 – But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.”
Jn 7:28 – So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
Jn 8:52 – The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’
Jn 9:24 – So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
Jn 9:29 – We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”
Jn 10:38 – but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
Jn 12:9 – When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
We
Jn 3:2 – This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
Jn 3:11 – Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
Jn 4:22 – You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Jn 9:31 – We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
Jn 21:24 – This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
The people
Jn 8:28 – So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
Jn 12:9 – When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
Jn 18:21 – Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them; they know what I said.”
Jn 19:4 – Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”
Those whom the Father had given to Jesus
Jn 17:3 – And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Jn 17:7 – Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.
Jn 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Samaritan woman
Jn 4:10 – Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
Jn 4:25 – The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”
Anyone
Jn 7:17 – If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
Jn 11:57 – Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.
Jesus’ sheep
Jn 10:4 – When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
Jn 10:14 – I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,
Martha
Jn 11:22 – But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”
Jn 11:24 – Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”
The world
Jn 14:31 – but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
Jn 17:23 – I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
The high priest
Jn 18:15 – Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he entered with Jesus into the court of the high priest,
Jn 18:16 – but Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the servant girl who kept watch at the door, and brought Peter in.
Samaritans
Jn 4:42 – They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
The official
Jn 4:53 – The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.
Authorities
Jn 7:26 – And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?
No one
Jn 7:27 – But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.”
Law
Jn 7:51 – “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
Parents of man born blind
Jn 9:20 – His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
Blind man
Jn 9:25 – He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
The Father
Jn 10:15 – just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
All
Jn 13:35 – By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Judas
Jn 18:2 – Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
The disciple who testified
Jn 19:35 – He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.
Who does not “know”
The people (the Jews)
Jn 1:26 – John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,
Jn 7:28 – So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
Jn 7:49 – But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”
Jn 8:14 – Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Jn 8:19 – They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
Jn 8:27 – They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.
Jn 8:43 – Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
Jn 8:55 – But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
Jn 9:29 – We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”
Jn 9:30 – The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.
Jn 10:6 – This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
Jn 15:21 – But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
Jn 16:3 – And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Disciples
Jn 4:32 – But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
Jn 12:16 – His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.
Jn 13:7 – Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”
Jn 13:28 – Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him.
Jn 14:5 – Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
Jn 14:9 – Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Jn 16:18 – So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.”
Jn 20:9 – for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
Jn 21:4 – Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.
The world
Jn 1:10 – He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
Jn 14:17 – even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Jn 15:21 – But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Mary
Jn 20:2 – So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”
Jn 20:13 – They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”
Jn 20:14 – Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus.
John
Jn 1:31 – I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.”
Jn 1:33 – I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
You (singular)
Jn 3:8 – The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Jn 19:10 – So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?”
Man born blind
Jn 9:12 – They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
Jn 9:25 – He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
The women at Jesus’ tomb
Jn 20:2 – So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”
Jn 20:13 – They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”
Master of the feast
Jn 2:9 – When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom
Nicodemus
Jn 3:10 – Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?
You (plural)
Jn 4:22 – You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Samaritan woman
Jn 4:10 – Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
Crippled man
Jn 5:13 – Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.
Parents of man born blind
Jn 9:21 – But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”
The sheep / Jesus’ own
Jn 10:5 – A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
Chief priests and Pharisees
Jn 11:49 – But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all.
The one who walks in the darkness
Jn 12:35 – So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Philip
Jn 14:9 – Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Servant
Jn 15:15 – No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Who makes “known”
Jesus
Jn 15:15 – No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Jn 17:26 – I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
“Know” whom or what
God the Father
Jn 7:29 – I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”
Jn 8:55 – But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
Jn 10:15 – just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Jn 14:7 – If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Jn 17:3 – And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Jesus
Jn 7:28 – So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
Jn 10:14 – I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,
Jn 10:15 – just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Jn 14:7 – If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Jn 17:3 – And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Where Jesus comes from
Jn 7:27 – But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.”
Jn 7:28 – So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
Jn 8:14 – Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Peter loves Jesus
Jn 21:15 – When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
Jn 21:16 – He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
Jn 21:17 – He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
Jesus’ own / sheep
Jn 10:14 – I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,
Jn 10:27 – My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
All things
Jn 16:30 – Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.”
Jn 21:17 – He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
The Father has sent Jesus…
Jn 17:23 – I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Disciple
Jn 18:15 – Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he entered with Jesus into the court of the high priest,
Jn 18:16 – but Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the servant girl who kept watch at the door, and brought Peter in.
Nathanael
Jn 1:48 – Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
All people
Jn 2:24 – But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people
What was in man
Jn 2:25 – and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.
What the Pharisees had heard
Jn 4:1 – Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
Gift of God
Jn 4:10 – Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
It was the hour
Jn 4:53 – The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.
About the invalid man
Jn 5:6 – When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
“You do not have the love of God within you”
Jn 5:42 – But I know that you do not have the love of God within you.
What Jesus would do
Jn 6:6 – He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
The people’s intention to make Jesus king
Jn 6:15 – Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
Father and mother
Jn 6:42 – They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
Jesus is the Holy One of God
Jn 6:69 – and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
Letter
Jn 7:15 – The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”
Whether the teaching is from God
Jn 7:17 – If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
This is the Christ
Jn 7:26 – And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?
What a man does
Jn 7:51 – “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
Where Jesus is going
Jn 8:14 – Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Jesus is I AM
Jn 8:28 – So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
The truth
Jn 8:32 – and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
“Though I was blind, now I see”
Jn 9:25 – He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
God has spoken to Moses
Jn 9:29 – We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”
Voice
Jn 10:4 – When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
The Father is in Jesus and Jesus is in the Father
Jn 10:38 – but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
Where Jesus was
Jn 11:57 – Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.
Jesus was there
Jn 12:9 – When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
What Jesus is doing
Jn 13:7 – Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”
Who was to betray Jesus
Jn 13:11 – For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
What Jesus has done
Jn 13:12 – When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you?
What Jesus says about footwashing
Jn 13:17 – If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Whom Jesus has chosen
Jn 13:18 – I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’
“You are my disciples”
Jn 13:35 – By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
The way to where Jesus is going
Jn 14:4 – And you know the way to where I am going.”
The Spirit of truth
Jn 14:17 – even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Jesus is in the Father…
Jn 14:20 – In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
Jesus loves the Father
Jn 14:31 – but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
What Jesus heard from His Father
Jn 15:15 – No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
The disciples wanted to ask Jesus
Jn 16:19 – Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?
Everything that the Father has given Jesus is from the Father
Jn 17:7 – Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.
The place
Jn 18:2 – Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
All that would happen
Jn 18:4 – Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”
Pilate finds no guilt in Jesus
Jn 19:4 – Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”
Not “know” whom or what
Jesus
Jn 1:10 – He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
Jn 1:26 – John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,
Jn 1:31 – I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.”
Jn 1:33 – I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
Jn 5:13 – Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.
Jn 8:19 – They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
Jn 9:21 – But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”
Jn 14:9 – Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Jn 16:3 – And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
The law
Jn 7:49 – But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”
Jn 8:27 – They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.
Jn 8:43 – Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
Jn 10:6 – This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
Jn 16:18 – So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.”
God the Father
Jn 8:19 – They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
Jn 8:55 – But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
Jn 15:21 – But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
Jn 16:3 – And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Where Jesus comes from
Jn 7:27 – But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.”
Jn 9:29 – We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”
Jn 9:30 – The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.
Where they have laid Jesus
Jn 20:2 – So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”
Jn 20:13 – They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”
It was Jesus
Jn 20:14 – Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus.
Jn 21:4 – Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.
Birth from above
Jn 3:10 – Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?
Food
Jn 4:32 – But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
Where Jesus is
Jn 9:12 – They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
How the blind man now sees
Jn 9:21 – But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”
Whether He is a sinner
Jn 9:25 – He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
Voice
Jn 10:5 – A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
The Father is in Jesus and Jesus is in the Father
Jn 10:38 – but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
Nothing [footnote text=“"You know nothing" is literally "You do not know nothing" in Greek”]
Jn 11:49 – But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all.
Jesus’ arrival at Jerusalem on a donkey
Jn 12:16 – His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.
Where he is going
Jn 12:35 – So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
What Jesus is doing
Jn 13:7 – Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”
Why Jesus said what He said to Judas
Jn 13:28 – Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him.
Where Jesus is going
Jn 14:5 – Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
The Spirit of truth
Jn 14:17 – even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
What the master is doing
Jn 15:15 – No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
The Scripture
Jn 20:9 – for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
False knowledge
That Jesus has a demon
Jn 8:52 – The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’
Contrast between not “knowing” and “knowing”
Jn 2:9 – When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom
Jn 4:22 – You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Jn 7:27 – But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.”
Jn 7:28 – So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
Jn 7:29 – I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”
Jn 8:14 – Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Jn 8:19 – They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
Jn 8:27 – They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.
Jn 8:28 – So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
Jn 8:55 – But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
Jn 9:20 – His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
Jn 9:21 – But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”
Jn 9:25 – He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
Jn 9:29 – We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”
Jn 9:30 – The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.
Jn 9:31 – We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
Jn 10:4 – When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
Jn 10:5 – A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
Jn 12:16 – His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.
Jn 13:7 – Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”
Jn 14:4 – And you know the way to where I am going.”
Jn 14:5 – Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
Jn 14:7 – If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Jn 14:17 – even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Jn 15:15 – No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Jn 16:18 – So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.”
Jn 16:19 – Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
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Jn 7:18 – The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
Jn 13:31 – When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
Jn 13:32 – If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.
Jn 14:13 – Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Jn 17:1 – When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,
Jn 17:4 – I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
The Father glorified through believers
Jn 15:8 – By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
God is glorified through illness
Jn 11:4 – But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
Glorify the Father’s name
Jn 12:28 – Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
God is glorified through death
Jn 21:19 – (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”
Seeking the glory from God
Jn 5:44 – How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Jn 7:18 – The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
Give glory to God
Jn 9:24 – So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
Seeing God’s glory through belief
Jn 11:40 – Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”
Loving glory from man more than glory from God
Jn 12:43 – “for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.”
Jesus’ glory
Seeing Jesus’ glory
Jn 1:14 – And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Jn 12:41 – Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
Jn 17:24 – “Father, I desire that they… may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me”
Jesus glorified
Jesus manifests His glory
Jn 2:11 – This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Jn 11:4 – But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
Jesus to be glorified
Jn 7:39 – Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Jn 12:16 – His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.
Jn 12:23 – And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Jn 13:31 – When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
Jn 13:32 – If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.
The Father gives the glory
Jn 5:41 – I do not receive glory from people.
Jn 8:50 – Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.
Jn 8:54 – Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
Jn 17:22 – The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
Jn 17:24 – Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Asking the Father to glorify
Jn 17:1 – When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,
Jn 17:5 – And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
The Spirit will glorify Jesus
Jn 16:14 – He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
Jesus glorified in believers
Jn 17:10 – All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
Jesus had glory with the Father
Jn 17:5 – And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
Jesus gives glory to believers
Jn 17:22 – The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
Glory from people
Jn 5:41 – I do not receive glory from people.
Jn 5:44 – How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Jn 7:18 – The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
Jn 12:43 – for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.
Verbs with glory as object
Seek
Jn 5:44 – How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Jn 7:18 – The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
Jn 8:50 – Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.
Receive
Jn 5:41 – I do not receive glory from people.
Jn 5:44 – How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Give
Jn 9:24 – So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
Jn 17:22 – The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
See, θεάομαι
Jn 1:14 – And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
See, ὁράω
Jn 11:40 – Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”
See, θεωρέω
Jn 17:24 – Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Reveal
Jn 2:11 – This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Love
Jn 12:43 – for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.
Jn 1:12 – But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Jn 4:10 – Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
Jn 4:14 – but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty forever. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Jn 6:11 – Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted.
Jn 6:51 – I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
Jn 6:52 – The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
Jn 10:28 – I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Jn 13:15 – For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.
Jn 13:26 – Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
Jn 13:34 – A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Jn 14:27 – Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Jn 17:2 – since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
Jn 17:14 – I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Jn 17:22 – The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
Jn 19:9 – He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
Jn 21:13 – Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish.
Priests and Levites
Jn 1:22 – So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
God
Jn 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jn 3:34 – For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.
Jn 6:31 – Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'”
Jn 11:22 – But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”
The Father
Jn 3:35 – The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.
Jn 5:22 – The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
Jn 5:26 – For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.
Jn 5:27 – And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
Jn 5:36 – But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
Jn 6:32 – Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
Jn 6:37 – All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
Jn 6:39 – And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
Jn 6:65 – And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”
Jn 10:29 – My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
Jn 12:49 – For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment–what to say and what to speak.
Jn 13:3 – Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
Jn 14:16 – And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
Jn 15:16 – You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Jn 16:23 – In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
Jn 17:2 – since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
Jn 17:4 – I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
Jn 17:6 – “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
Jn 17:7 – Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.
Jn 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
Jn 17:9 – I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
Jn 17:11 – And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
Jn 17:12 – While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Jn 17:22 – The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
Jn 17:24 – Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Jn 18:9 – This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken: “Of those whom you gave me I have lost not one.”
Jn 18:11 – So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?”
Jacob
Jn 4:5 – So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Jn 4:12 – Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”
The Son of Man
Jn 6:27 – Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
Moses
Jn 7:19 – Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”
Jn 7:22 – Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
Chief priests and Pharisees
Jn 11:57 – Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.
The world
Jn 14:27 – Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
One of the officers
Jn 18:22 – When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”
Soldiers
Jn 19:3 – They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.
Give what
Authority
To become children of God
Jn 1:12 – But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
To execute judgment
Jn 5:27 – And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
Over all flesh
Jn 17:2 – since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
Over Jesus
Jn 19:11 – Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”
The Law
Jn 1:17 – For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Jn 7:19 – Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”
An answer
Jn 1:22 – So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
Jn 19:9 – He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
Only Son
Jn 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
The Spirit
Jn 3:34 – For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.
Field
Jn 4:5 – So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Well
Jn 4:12 – Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”
Water
Jn 4:14 – but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty forever. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Jn 4:15 – The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
Judgment
Jn 5:22 – The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
To have life in himself
Jn 5:26 – For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.
Works
Jn 5:36 – But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
Jn 17:4 – I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
Bread and fish
Jn 6:11 – Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted.
Jn 21:13 – Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish.
Food that endures to eternal life
Jn 6:27 – Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
Bread
Jn 6:31 – Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'”
Jn 6:32 – Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
Jn 6:34 – They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
Jn 6:51 – I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
Life
Jn 6:33 – For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
Jn 10:28 – I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Jn 17:2 – since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
Believers
Jn 6:37 – All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
Jn 6:39 – And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
Jn 10:29 – My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
Jn 17:6 – “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
Jn 17:9 – I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
Jn 17:24 – Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Jn 18:9 – This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken: “Of those whom you gave me I have lost not one.”
Flesh
Jn 6:51 – I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
Jn 6:52 – The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
Circumcision
Jn 7:22 – Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
Glory
Jn 9:24 – So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
Whatever Jesus asks
Jn 11:22 – But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”
Orders/commandments
Jn 11:57 – Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.
Jn 12:49 – For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment–what to say and what to speak.
Jn 13:34 – A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Three hundred denarii
Jn 12:5 – “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”
All things
Jn 13:3 – Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
An example
Jn 13:15 – For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.
Morsel of bread
Jn 13:26 – Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
Counselor
Jn 14:16 – And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
Peace
Jn 14:27 – Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Whatever the disciples ask in Jesus’ name
Jn 15:16 – You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Jn 16:23 – In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
The words that the Father gave to Jesus
Jn 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
Jn 17:14 – I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
The Father’s name
Jn 17:11 – And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
Jn 17:12 – While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Glory
Jn 17:22 – The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
Jn 17:24 – Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Cup
Jn 18:11 – So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?”
Striking
Jn 18:22 – When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”
Jn 19:3 – They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.
To whom is given
A man
Jn 3:27 – John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.
The Son
Jn 3:35 – The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.
Jn 5:22 – The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
Jn 5:26 – For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.
Jn 5:27 – And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
Jesus
Jn 5:36 – But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
Jn 6:37 – All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
Jn 6:39 – And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
Jn 10:29 – My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
Jn 11:22 – But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”
Jn 12:49 – For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment–what to say and what to speak.
Jn 13:3 – Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
Jn 17:4 – I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
Jn 17:6 – “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
Jn 17:7 – Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.
Jn 17:9 – I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
Jn 17:11 – And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
Jn 17:12 – While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Jn 17:22 – The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
Jn 17:24 – Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Jn 18:9 – This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken: “Of those whom you gave me I have lost not one.”
Jn 18:11 – So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?”
Jn 18:22 – When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”
Jn 19:3 – They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.
Joseph
Jn 4:5 – So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Samaritans
Jn 4:12 – Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”
Those who were seated
Jn 6:11 – Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted.
The people/Jews
Jn 6:32 – Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
Jn 7:19 – Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”
Jn 7:22 – Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
The world
Jn 6:33 – For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
Believers/disciples
Jn 10:28 – I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Jn 13:15 – For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.
Jn 13:34 – A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Jn 14:16 – And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
Jn 15:16 – You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Jn 16:23 – In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
Jn 17:2 – since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
Jn 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
Jn 17:14 – I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Jn 17:22 – The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
Jn 21:13 – Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish.
The poor
Jn 12:5 – “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”
Jn 13:29 – Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.
Judas
Jn 13:26 – Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
Pilate
Jn 19:9 – He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
Jn 19:11 – Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”
Through whom is given
Moses
Jn 1:17 – For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Give from above
Jn 19:11 – Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”
Request/command to give
Jn 4:7 – There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
Jn 4:10 – Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
Jn 4:15 – The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
Jn 6:34 – They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
Jn 9:24 – So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
Adverbial use of “gift” (i.e. without a cause)
Jn 15:25 – But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
Jn 2:23 – Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
Jn 4:39 – Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
Jn 7:31 – Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”
Jn 8:30 – As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
Jn 10:42 – And many believed in him there.
Jn 11:45 – Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,
Jn 12:11 – because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
Jn 12:42 – Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;
Jesus’ disciples
Jn 2:11 – This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Jn 2:22 – When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
Jn 11:15 – and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
The Samaritans
Jn 4:39 – Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
Jn 4:41 – And many more believed because of his word.
Jn 4:42 – They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
All
Jn 1:7 – He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
Jn 11:48 – If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
The official
Jn 4:50 – Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.
Jn 4:53 – The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.
Nathanael
Jn 1:50 – Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
The official’s household
Jn 4:53 – The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.
The Twelve
Jn 6:69 – and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
Any of the authorities?
Jn 7:48 – Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
The Jews
Jn 8:31 – So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
The man healed of blindness
John 9:38 – He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
Martha
Jn 11:27 – She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”
Who?
Jn 12:38 – so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
The world
Jn 17:21 – that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
The other disciple
Jn 20:8 – Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;
Who does not “believe”
The Jews
Jn 5:38 – and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.
Jn 8:46 – Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
Jn 5:47 – But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
Jn 6:36 – But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.
Jn 8:45 – But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
Jn 8:46 – Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
Jn 9:18 – The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight
Jn 10:25 – Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me,
Jn 10:26 – but you do not believe because you are not part of my flock.
The people
Jn 3:12 – If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
Jn 4:48 – So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”
Jn 12:37 – Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,
Jesus
Jn 2:24 – But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people
Some of Jesus’ disciples
Jn 6:64 – But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
Jesus’ brothers
Jn 7:5 – For not even his brothers believed in him.
Disciples
Jn 14:10 – Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
The world
Jn 16:9 – concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
Thomas
Jn 20:25 – So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”
Unspecified
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Object of “believe”
Jesus
Jn 2:11 – This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Jn 2:24 – But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people
Jn 3:15 – that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
Jn 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Jn 3:36 – Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Jn 4:21 – Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
Jn 4:39 – Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
Jn 5:38 – and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.
Jn 5:46 – If you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.
Jn 6:29 – Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
Jn 6:30 – So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?
Jn 6:35 – Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
Jn 6:40 – For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Jn 7:5 – For not even his brothers believed in him.
Jn 7:31 – Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”
Jn 7:38 – Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'”
Jn 7:39 – Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Jn 7:48 – Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
Jn 8:30 – As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
Jn 8:31 – So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
Jn 8:45 – But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
Jn 8:46 – Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
Jn 9:35 – Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
Jn 9:36 – He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”
Jn 10:37 – If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;
Jn 10:38 – but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
Jn 10:42 – And many believed in him there.
Jn 11:25 – Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
Jn 11:26 – and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Jn 11:45 – Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,
Jn 11:48 – If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
Jn 12:11 – because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
Jn 12:36 – While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
Jn 12:37 – Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,
Jn 12:42 – Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;
John 12:44 – And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.
Jn 12:46 – I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
Jn 14:1 – “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Jn 14:12 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
Jn 16:9 – concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
Jn 17:20 – “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
Jesus’ name
Jn 1:12 – But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Jn 2:23 – Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
John 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Cf. 1 Jn 3:23; 5:13
God the Father
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Jn 12:44 – And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.
Jn 14:1 – “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Jesus’ word, λόγος
Jn 2:22 – When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
Jn 4:50 – Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.
Jesus’ word, ῥῆμα
John 5:47 – But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
Scripture
Jn 2:22 – When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
Moses
Jn 5:46 – If you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.
Writings
Jn 5:47 – But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
Jesus’ works
Jn 10:38 – but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
The light
Jn 12:36 – While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
What was heard
Jn 12:38 – so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
Testimony
1 Jn 5:10 – Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.
Content of “believe”
The Father sent Jesus
Jn 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
Jn 17:21 – that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Jn 11:42 – I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”
Jesus is “I AM”
Jn 8:24 – I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
Jn 13:19 – I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God
Jn 11:27 – She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”
Jn 20:31 – but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Cf. 1 Jn 5:1, 5
Jesus is in the Father and the Father is in Him
Jn 14:10 – Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
Jn 14:11 – Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
Jesus came from God
Jn 16:27 – for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
Jn 16:30 – Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.”
Jesus is the Holy One of God
Jn 6:69 – and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
Promises to those who “believe”
Life
Have eternal life
Jn 3:15 – that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
Jn 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jn 3:36 – Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Jn 6:40 – For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Jn 6:47 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
Not perish
Jn 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Live
Jn 11:25 – Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
Never die
Jn 11:26 – and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Life in Jesus’ name
Jn 20:31 – but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Become children of God
Jn 1:12 – But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Not be condemned
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Not hunger or thirst
Jn 6:35 – Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
Receive the Spirit
Jn 7:38 – Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ”
Jn 7:39 – Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
See the glory of God
John 11:40 – Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”
Become sons of light
Jn 12:36 – While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
Not remain in darkness
Jn 12:46 – I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
Do Jesus’ works and even greater works
Jn 14:12 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
Result of not “believing”
Condemned
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Not see life; God’s wrath
Jn 3:36 – Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Die in sin
John 8:24 – I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
“Believe” as a result of
Words
Jn 4:41 – And many more believed because of his word.
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Jn 8:30 – As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
Jn 11:42 – I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”
Jn 13:19 – I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.
Jn 14:29 – And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.
Jn 17:20 – “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
Seeing
Jn 1:50 – Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
Jn 2:23 – Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
Jn 6:40 – For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Jn 11:45 – Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,
Jn 20:8 – Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;
Jn 20:29 – Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
Testimony
Jn 1:7 – He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
Jn 4:39 – Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
Jn 19:35 – He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.
Signs
Jn 2:23 – Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
Jn 11:45 – Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,
Jn 12:11 – because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
Hearing
Jn 4:42 – They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Works
John 14:11 – Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
Questions about “believing”
Do you “believe”?
Jn 1:50 – Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
Jn 9:35 – Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
Jn 11:26 – and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Jn 16:31 – Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?
Why do you not “believe”?
Jn 8:46 – Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
Do you not “believe”?
Jn 14:10 – Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
Command to be believing
John 20:27 – Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”
Reasons for “believing”
Doing what is true
Jn 3:21 – But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been carried out in God.”
Given to Jesus by the Father
Jn 6:37 – All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
Jn 6:39 – And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
Jn 6:65 – And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”
Drawn by the Father
Jn 6:44 – No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
Being Jesus’ sheep
Jn 10:27 – My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Jn 10:28 – I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Jn 10:29 – My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
Reason for not “believing”
Deeds are evil
Jn 3:19 – And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
Jn 3:20 – For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
Seeking glory from men rather than from God
Jn 5:44 – How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Jn 12:42 – Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;
Jn 12:43 – for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.
Not seeing signs and wonders
Jn 4:48 – So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”
Will to do the devil’s desires
Jn 8:44 – You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Not of God
Jn 8:46 – Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
Jn 8:47 – Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”
Not being among Jesus’ sheep
Jn 10:26 – but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.
Fulfillment of prophecy
John 12:38 – so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
John 12:39 – Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,
Without cause
Jn 15:22 – If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
Jn 15:23 – Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
Jn 15:24 – If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
Jn 15:25 – But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
Not being able to “believe”
Jn 5:44 – How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Jn 12:39 – Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,
Not “believing” and sin
Jn 8:24 – I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
Jn 16:9 – concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
“Believe” and know
Jn 4:42 – They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Jn 6:69 – and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
Jn 10:38 – but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
Jn 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
Signs and “believe”
John 2:11 – This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
John 2:23 – Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
John 4:48 – So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”
John 6:30 – So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?
John 7:31 – Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”
John 11:45 – Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,
John 12:11 – because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
John 12:37 – Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,
Words parallel to “believe”
Come
John 3:20 – For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
John 3:21 – But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
John 4:30 – They went out of the town and were coming to him.
John 4:40 – So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
John 5:40 – yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
John 6:35 – Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
John 6:37 – All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
John 6:44 – No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:45 – It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—
John 6:65 – And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”
John 7:37 – On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
John 8:2 – Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.
John 10:41 – And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”
John 14:6 – Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Receive
λαμβάνω
John 1:12 – But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
John 1:16 – For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
John 3:11 – Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
John 3:32 – He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.
John 3:33 – Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.
John 5:43 – I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
John 12:48 – The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
John 13:20 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”
John 14:17 – even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
παραλαμβάνω
John 1:11 – He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
δέχομαι
John 4:45 – So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.
Follow
John 1:37 – The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus.
John 1:38 – Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?”
John 1:40 – One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
John 1:43 – The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”
John 8:12 – Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 10:4 – When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
John 10:5 – A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
John 10:27 – My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
John 12:26 – If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
John 21:19 – (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”
John 21:22 – Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!”
Hear
John 4:42 – They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
John 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 5:37 – And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,
John 6:45 – It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—
John 6:60 – When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”
John 8:43 – Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
John 8:47 – Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”
John 10:3 – To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
John 10:8 – All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
John 10:16 – And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
John 10:27 – My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Abide
John 6:56 – Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
John 8:31 – So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
John 8:35 – The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.
John 15:4 – Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
John 15:5 – I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:6 – If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
John 15:7 – If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
John 15:9 – As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.
John 15:10 – If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
See
Θεωρέω
John 6:40 – For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 12:45 – And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.
Ὁράω
John 6:36 – But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.
John 14:7 – If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
John 14:9 – Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Βλέπω
Jn 9:39 – Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”
Jn 9:40 – Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
Jn 9:41 – Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
Know (See <topic id=“386” startswith=“” nth=“”>“Know” in John</topic>)
