John 12:49 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴⁹ For I have not spoken on my own authority; the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment 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 in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority; but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

John 14:24

He who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father's 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 go hence.

John 15:15

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

John 17:8

for I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have believed that thou didst send me.

John 3:11

Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen; but you do not receive our testimony.

John 3:32

He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony;

John 5:19

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does likewise.

John 5:30

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

John 6:68

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

John 7:16

So 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 judge; but he 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 know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority but speak thus as the Father taught me.

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded and came forth from God; I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethren; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

Revelation 1:1

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