John 7:29
But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
Cross-reference
John 3:17 clarifies the purpose of the sending: not condemnation but salvation, building on the basic fact of being sent.
In John 17:25, Jesus again asserts his knowledge of the Father, now in prayer, and notes that the disciples know he was sent.
John 16:28 explicitly states Jesus came from the Father and entered the world—a direct expansion of his claim to be from God.
In John 8:55, Jesus repeats his intimate knowledge of the Father, contrasting it with the ignorance of his opponents.
John 10:15 expands the mutual knowledge between Father and Son, linking it to Jesus' willing sacrifice for the sheep.
John 16:27 ties the disciples' love and belief to their recognition that Jesus came from God, the same truth Jesus speaks here.
John 13:3 reaffirms Jesus' origin from God and his return to God, directly restating the 'I am from him' claim.
John 7:28 is the preceding verse where Jesus declares He did not come on His own — verse 29 adds that He knows the Father because He is from Him.
John 14:10 describes Jesus indwelling with the Father and speaking from Him, deepening the origin and sending theme.
John 17:3 defines eternal life as knowing God and Jesus Christ whom He sent, affirming the sending relationship.
John 11:42 has Jesus praying that the crowd may believe the Father sent Him, echoing His mission claim.
John 8:42 repeats Jesus' words 'I came from God' and 'He sent me,' almost verbatim parallel.
John 8:14 has Jesus asserting He knows His origin, reinforcing His testimony about coming from God.
John 6:46 affirms that only the one who is from God has seen the Father, matching Jesus' knowledge claim.
John 17:26 focuses on Jesus making the Father's name known to his disciples, a result of the knowledge and sending in the main verse.
1 John 1:2 expands on Jesus being with the Father from the beginning, echoing His claim to come from God.
1 John 4:9 explicitly states God sent His Son, reinforcing Jesus' claim of being sent by the Father.
1 John 4:14 testifies that the Father sent the Son as Savior, directly paralleling Jesus' statement of being sent.