(4:20,21) "But" introduces a contrast. We "did not come to know Christ" through self-gratification, but through what we "heard of Him" by other's testimony, and by what we "were taught in Him". All that we "know" (facts and information, not experience) of Christ (His Messiah-ship) we learned through "the truth that is in Jesus". In other words, the man, Jesus, explained the Messiah (the Christ) in terms of the truth.

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