John 12:49

The Text-Critical English New Testament

For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me gave me a commandment as to what I should say and what I should speak.

Cross References

John 14:10

Do yoʋ not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who abides in me does his works.

John 14:24

Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

John 14:31

Rather, I do just 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, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I heard from my Father.

John 17:8

For I have given them the words that yoʋ gave me, and they have received them and truly know that I came from yoʋ. They have also come to believe that yoʋ sent me.

John 3:11

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

John 3:32

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

John 5:19

So Jesus responded to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does in the same way.

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 the Father who sent me.

John 6:68

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

John 7:16

Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who sent me.

John 8:26

I have many things to say about you and to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I tell the world what I have heard from him.”

John 8:28

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

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come of my own accord, but he sent me.

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,