John 8:28

8:28 Then Jesus said, ¹  “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, ²  and I do nothing on my own initiative, ³  but I speak just what the Father taught me. ⁴ 

John 8:55

8:55 Yet ⁵  you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, ⁶  I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey ⁷  his teaching. ⁸ 

[8:28]  ¹ tn Grk “Then Jesus said to them” (the words “to them” are not found in all mss).

[8:28]  ² tn Grk “that I am.” See the note on this phrase in v. 24.

[8:28]  ³ tn Grk “I do nothing from myself.”

[8:28]  ⁴ tn Grk “but just as the Father taught me, these things I speak.”

[8:55]  ⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Yet” to indicate the contrast present in the context.

[8:55]  ⁶ tn Grk “If I say, ‘I do not know him.’”

[8:55]  ⁷ tn Grk “I keep.”

[8:55]  ⁸ tn Grk “his word.”