John 12:49

The English Standar Version

For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment -- 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 authority, 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 the Father's 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 go from here.

John 15:15

No longer do I call you servants,[1] for the servant[2] does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

John 17:8

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

John 3:11

Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.

John 3:32

He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.

John 5:19

So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father[4] does, that 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 not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,

John 7:16

So 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 judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."

John 8:28

So Jesus said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but He sent me.

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

Revelation 1:1

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants[1] the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant[2] John,