20"You do not know me or my Father," Jesus replied. "If you knew me, you would know my Father also." He spoke these words while teaching in the temple area near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his time had not yet come.


In Context

17 In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.

18 I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me."

19 Then they asked him, "Where is your father?"

20 "You do not know me or my Father," Jesus replied. "If you knew me, you would know my Father also." He spoke these words while teaching in the temple area near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his time had not yet come.

21 Once more Jesus said to them, "I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come."

22 This made the Jews ask, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, 'Where I go, you cannot come'?"

John 8:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:20These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:20These words Jesus spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:20These words spake he in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man took him; because his hour was not yet come.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:20These words spoke he in the treasury, teaching in the temple; and no one took him, for his hour was not yet come.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:20These words spake he in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man took him; because his hour was not yet come.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:20These words Jesus spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him, for his hour was not yet come.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:20Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:20These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:20These words spoke Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.