John 7:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Jesus replied: I am not teaching something that I thought up. What I teach comes from the one who sent me.

Cross References

John 14:10

Don't you believe that I am one with the Father and that the Father is one with me? What I say isn't said on my own. The Father who lives in me does these things.

John 14:24

But anyone who doesn't love me, won't obey me. What they have heard me say doesn't really come from me, but from the Father who sent me.

John 17:14

I have told them your message. But the people of this world hate them, because they don't belong to this world, just as I don't.

John 17:8

I told my followers what you told me, and they accepted it. They know that I came from you, and they believe that you are the one who sent me.

John 3:11

I tell you for certain that we know what we are talking about because we have seen it ourselves. But none of you will accept what we say.

John 3:31

God's Son comes from heaven and is above all others. Everyone who comes from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is above all others.

John 5:30

I cannot do anything on my own. The Father sent me, and he is the one who told me how to judge. I judge with fairness, because I obey him, and I don't just try to please myself.

John 6:44

No one can come to me, unless the Father who sent me makes them want to come. But if they do come, I will raise them to life on the last day.

John 8:28

Jesus went on to say, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, you will know who I am. You will also know that I don't do anything on my own. I say only what my Father taught me.

2 John 1:9

Don't keep changing what you were taught about Christ, or else God will no longer be with you. But if you hold firmly to what you were taught, both the Father and the Son will be with you.

Revelation 1:1

This is what God showed to Jesus Christ, so that he could tell his servants what must happen soon. Christ then sent his angel with the message to his servant John.