Coming to know God intimately was not a new idea in Jesus day. In the Hebrew Scriptures, for example, we read that when Samuel was a boy, he had not yet come to know Jehovah.
( ১ চমূৱেল ৩ :⁠ ৭) ইয়াৰ অৰ্থ এইটোনে যে ঈশ্বৰৰ বিষয়ে চমূৱেলৰ অলপমাত্ৰাতহে জ্ঞান আছিল?