John 8:42

New English Translation

Jesus replied, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

Cross References

Malachi 1:6

“A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The Lord who rules over all asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply, ‘How have we made light of your name?’

John 1:14

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory – the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the 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 13:3

Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

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 16:30

Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God.”

John 17:25

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

John 17:8

because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

John 3:17

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

John 5:23

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

John 5:43

I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

John 8:14

Jesus answered, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

1 Corinthians 16:22

Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. Our Lord, come!

Galatians 4:4

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

1 John 4:14

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

Revelation 22:1

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life – water as clear as crystal – pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,