<p>8:55 <i>You have not known Him, but I know Him- </i>There are two different words used here. They did not know God, but the Lord had seen Him. The allusion is to Moses who desired to see God and could not. And the Lord implies that He all the time was seeing God, not just for a passing moment, but walking in the light of knowing Him.</p><p><i>And if I should say I know Him not, I shall be like you, a liar; but I know Him and keep His word</i>- The statement that He 'saw' God was deeply blasphemous to the Jews. He was tempted not to make it, knowing the persecution and anger it would create. But to do so would be to lie. To see / know God was to keep His word, living according to God's word.</p>