John 14:24

The Passion Translation

But those who don’t love me will not obey my words. The Father did not send me to speak my own revelation, but the words of my Father.

Cross References

Matthew 19:21

Jesus said to him, “If you really want to be perfect, go now and sell everything you own. Give your money to the poor and your treasure will be transferred into heaven. Then come back and follow me for the rest of your life.”

John 14:10

Don’t you believe that the Father is living in me and that I am living in the Father? Even my words are not my own but come from my Father, for he lives in me and performs his miracles of power through me.

John 14:15

“Loving me empowers you to obey my commands.

John 14:25

I am telling you this while I am still with you.

John 3:11

I speak eternal truths about things I know, things I’ve seen and experienced—and still you don’t accept what I reveal.

John 3:34

“The One whom God has sent to represent him will speak the words of God, because God has poured out upon him the fullness of the Holy Spirit without limitation.

John 5:19

So Jesus said, “I speak to you eternal truth. The Son is unable to do anything from himself or through his own initiative. I only do the works that I see the Father doing, for the Son does the same works as his Father.

John 5:38

nor does his Word truly live inside of you, for you refuse to believe in me or to embrace me as God’s messenger.

John 7:16

So Jesus responded, “I don’t teach my own ideas, but the truth revealed to me by the One who sent me.

John 7:28

Knowing all of this, Jesus one day preached boldly in the temple courts, “So, you think you know me and where I come from? But you don’t know the One who sent me—the Father who is always faithful. I have not come simply on my own initiative.

John 8:26

“And I still have many more things to pronounce in judgment about you. For I will testify to the world of the truths that I have heard from my Father, and the Father who sent me is trustworthy.”

John 8:28

“You will know me as ‘I AM’ after you have lifted me up from the earth as the Son of Man. Then you will realize that I do nothing on my own initiative, but I only speak the truth that the Father has revealed to me.

John 8:38

Yet the truths I speak I’ve seen and received in my Father’s presence. But you are doing what you’ve learned from your father!”

John 8:42

Jesus said, “Then if God were really your father, you would love me, for I’ve come from his presence. I didn’t come here on my own, but God sent me to you.