John 6:38

New American Bible - revised edition

because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

Cross References

Isaiah 53:10

But it was the Lord’s will to crush him with pain. By making his life as a reparation offering, he shall see his offspring, shall lengthen his days, and the Lord’s will shall be accomplished through him.

Matthew 20:28

Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.” The Healing of Two Blind Men.

John 3:13

No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.

John 3:17

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:31

The one who comes from above is above all. The one who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of earthly things. But the one who comes from heaven [is above all].

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work.

John 5:19

Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees his father doing; for what he does, his son will do also.

John 5:30

“I cannot do anything on my own; I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me. Witnesses to Jesus.

John 6:29

Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.”

John 6:33

For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

John 6:42

and they said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? Then how can he say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

John 6:57

Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.

Romans 15:3

For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you fall upon me.”

Ephesians 4:9

What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended into the lower [regions] of the earth?

Hebrews 5:8

Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered;