John 5:19

New English Translation

So Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

Cross References

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”

Psalm 138:3

When I cried out for help, you answered me. You made me bold and energized me.

Psalm 27:14

Rely on the Lord! Be strong and confident! Rely on the Lord!

Psalm 50:6

The heavens declare his fairness, for God is judge. (Selah)

Exodus 4:11

The Lord said to him, “Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

Proverbs 2:6

For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Isaiah 44:24

This is what the Lord, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb: “I am the Lord, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,

Isaiah 45:24

they will say about me, “Yes, the Lord is a powerful deliverer.”’” All who are angry at him will cower before him.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds. I examine people’s hearts. I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.

Matthew 26:39

Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Luke 21:15

For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

John 10:18

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

John 12:49

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

John 12:50

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

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 initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

John 2:19

Jesus replied, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”

John 3:3

Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 5:21

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

John 8:28

Then Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

John 9:4

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

Acts 2:24

But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.

Romans 6:4

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

Romans 8:11

Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

1 Corinthians 15:12

Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

2 Corinthians 4:14

We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.

2 Corinthians 5:10

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil.

Ephesians 2:5

even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved! –

Ephesians 3:16

I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

Philippians 3:21

who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.

Philippians 4:13

I am able to do all things through the one who strengthens me.

Colossians 1:11

being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully

Colossians 1:16

for all things in heaven and on earth were created by him – all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers – all things were created through him and for him.

1 Thessalonians 4:14

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.

1 Peter 3:18

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

Revelation 2:23

Furthermore, I will strike her followers with a deadly disease, and then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts. I will repay each one of you what your deeds deserve.