John 12:49 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁹ for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁹ For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁹ This is because I have never spoken on My own authority or of My own accord or as self-appointed, but the Father Who sent Me has Himself given Me orders [concerning] what to say and what to tell. [Deut. 18:18, 19.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁹ For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

Common English Bible

⁴⁹ I don’t speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me regarding what I should speak and say.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁹ For I am not speaking from myself, but from the Father who sent me. He gave a commandment to me as to what I should say and how I should speak.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁹ For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say, and what I should speak.

John 12:49 Cross References

John 14:10

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

John 14:24

Whoever does not love me does not keep my words, and the word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.

John 14:31

but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us be on our way.

John 15:15

I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.

John 17:8

for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.

John 3:11

“Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen, yet you do not receive our testimony.

John 3:32

He testifies to what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.

John 5:19

Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own but only what he sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

John 5:30

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.

John 7:16

Then Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine but his who sent me.

John 8:26

I have much to say about you and much to condemn, but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”

John 8:28

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me.

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God, and now I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.

Revelation 1:1

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place, and he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,