37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, f“You say that I am a king. gFor this purpose I was born and for this purpose hI have come into the world—ito bear witness to the truth. jEveryone who is kof the truth llistens to my voice.”
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Luke 22:70
So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” And he said to them, “You say that I am.”
John 12:27
“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
Romans 14:9
For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
John 16:28
I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
John 3:11
Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
John 3:32
He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.
John 5:31
If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true.
John 8:13–14
So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
John 8:18
I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
1 John 4:6
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
John 8:47
Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”
1 John 2:21
I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
1 John 3:19
By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;
John 10:16
And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
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