John 12:49

Easy To Read Version

Why? Because the things I taught were not from myself. The Father (God) who sent me told me what to say and what to teach.

Cross References

John 14:10

Do you truly believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The things I have told you don’t come from me. The Father lives in me, and he is doing his own work.

John 14:24

But the person that does not love me does not obey my teaching. This teaching that you hear is not really mine. It is from my Father who sent me.

John 14:31

But the world must know that I love the Father. So I do exactly what the Father told me to do.

John 15:15

I don’t call you servants now. A servant does not know what his master is doing. But now I call you friends because I have told you everything I heard from my Father.

John 17:8

I gave these men the teachings that you gave me. They accepted those teachings. They know that I truly came from you. And they believed that you sent me.

John 3:11

I tell you the truth. We talk about what we know. We tell about what we have seen. But you people don’t accept what we tell you.

John 3:32

He (Jesus) tells what he has seen and heard. But people don’t accept what he says.

John 5:19

But Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth. The Son can do nothing alone. The Son does only what he sees his Father doing. The Son does the same things that the Father does.

John 5:30

“I can do nothing alone. I judge only the way I am told. So my judgment is right. Why? Because I don’t try to please myself. But I want to please the One (God) who sent me.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered Jesus, “Lord, where would we go? You have the things that give life forever.

John 7:16

Jesus answered, “The things I teach are not my own. My teaching comes from him (God) who sent me.

John 8:26

I have many things I could say to judge you. But I tell people only the things I have heard from the One that sent me. And he speaks the truth.”

John 8:28

So Jesus said to them, “You will lift up (kill) the Son of Man. {\cf2\super [134]} Then you will know that I AM. {\cf2\super [135]} You will know that these things I do are not by my own authority (power). You will know that I say only the things that the Father has taught me.

John 8:42

Jesus said to those Jews, “If God were really your Father, then you would love me. I came from God, and now I am here. I did not come by my own authority. God sent me.

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will send them a prophet [121] like you. This prophet will be one of their own people. I will tell him the things he must say. And he will tell the people everything I command.

Revelation 1:1

This is the revelation {\cf2\super [1]} of Jesus Christ. God gave Jesus these things to show his servants what must happen soon. Christ sent his angel to show these things to his servant John.