'Know' in the Bible

Nathanael asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus replied, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him."

The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (the one called Christ); "whenever he comes, he will tell us everything."

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

They said to the woman, "No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world."

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

and they said, "Isn't this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!"

Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, "How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?"

If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me."

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!"

Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

Then they began asking him, "Who is your father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too."

Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

I know that you are Abraham's descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

Then the Judeans responded, "Now we know you're possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, 'If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.'

Yet you do not know him, but 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 obey his teaching.

They said to him, "Where is that man?" He replied, "I don't know."

So his parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself."

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

He replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing -- that although I was blind, now I can see."

We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!"

The man replied, "This is a remarkable thing, that you don't know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

"I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me --

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father -- and I lay down my life for the sheep.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me."

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you."

Martha said, "I know that he will come back to life again in the resurrection at the last day."

Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing at all!

Jesus replied, "The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me."

"What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, 'The one who eats my bread has turned against me.'

The disciples began to look at one another, worried and perplexed to know which of them he was talking about.

Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples -- if you have love for one another."

And you know the way where I am going."

Thomas said, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"

If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him."

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here."

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God."

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

I in them and you in me -- that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said. They know what I said."

Again Pilate went out and said to the Jewish leaders, "Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no reason for an accusation against him."

So Pilate said, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Don't you know I have the authority to release you, and to crucify you?"

So she went running to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" Mary replied, "They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!"

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

When it was already very early morning, Jesus stood on the beach, but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

Then when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these do?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

Jesus said a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Shepherd my sheep."

Jesus said a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was distressed that Jesus asked him a third time, "Do you love me?" and said, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you." Jesus replied, "Feed my sheep.

This is the disciple who testifies about these things and has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.