John 12:49

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak.

Cross References

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; but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

John 14:24

Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; and the word that you hear is not mine, but is from the Father who sent me.

John 14:31

but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us be on our way.

John 15:15

I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.

John 17:8

for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

John 3:11

“Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony.

John 3:32

He testifies to what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.

John 5:19

Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

John 5:30

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.

John 7:16

Then Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine but his who sent me.

John 8:26

I have much to say about you and much to condemn; but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”

John 8:28

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me.

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.

Revelation 1:1

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place; he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,