18 I am the One who testifies(A) about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”

19 Then they asked Him, “Where is Your Father?”

“You know neither Me nor My Father,”(B) Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would also know My Father.”(C) 20 He spoke these words by the treasury,[a](D) while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hour[b] had not come.

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:20 A place for offerings to be given, perhaps in the court of women
  2. John 8:20 The time of His sacrificial death and exaltation; Jn 2:4; 7:30; 12:23,27; 13:1; 17:1

18 I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me.”(A)

19 Then they asked him, “Where is your father?”

“You do not know me or my Father,”(B) Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”(C) 20 He spoke these words while teaching(D) in the temple courts near the place where the offerings were put.(E) Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.(F)

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