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

“You know neither me nor my Father,”^(A) Jesus answered. “If you knew me, you would also know my Father.”^(B)

³ They will do these things because they haven’t known^(A) the Father or me.

³ This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only^(A) true^(B) God, and the one you have sent^(C) —Jesus Christ.^(D)

¹⁵ Whoever confesses^(A) that Jesus is the Son of God—God remains in him and he in God.

5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God,^(A) and everyone who loves the Father^[a] also loves the one born of him.

⁹ Anyone who does not remain in Christ’s teaching^(A) but goes beyond it does not have God.^(B) The one who remains^(C) in that teaching, this one has both the Father^(D) and the Son.^(E)