John 12:49

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

For I have not delivered it on my own authority; but the Father, who sent me, has himself given me his command as to what I should say, and what message I should deliver.

Cross References

John 14:10

Do not you believe that I am in union with the Father, and the Father with me? In giving you my teaching I am not speaking on my own authority; but the Father himself, always in union with me, does his own work.

John 14:24

He who does not love me will not lay my Message to heart; and the Message to which you are listening is not my own, but that of the Father who sent me.

John 14:31

But he is coming that the world may see that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father commanded me. Come, let us be going.

John 15:15

I no longer call you 'servants,' because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have given you the name of 'friends,' because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father.

John 17:8

For I have given them the teaching which thou gavest me, and they received it, and clearly understood that I came from thee, and they believed that thou has sent me as thy Messenger.

John 3:11

In truth I tell you that we speak of what we know, and state what we have seen; and yet you do not accept our statements.

John 3:32

He states what he has seen and what he heard, and yet no one accepts his statement.

John 5:19

So Jesus made this further reply: "In truth I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does also.

John 5:30

I can do nothing of myself; I judge as I am taught; and the judgment that I give is just, because my aim is not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

John 6:68

But Simon Peter answered: "Master, to whom shall we go? Immortal Life is in your teaching;

John 7:16

So, in reply, Jesus said: "My teaching is not my own; it is his who sent me.

John 8:26

"I have still much that concerns you to speak of and to pass judgment on; yet he who sent me may be trusted, and I speak to the world only of the things which I have heard from him."

John 8:28

So Jesus added: "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will understand that I am what I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but that I say just what the Father has taught me.

John 8:42

"If God were your Father," Jesus replied, "you would have loved me, for I came out from God, and now am here; and I have not come of myself, but he sent me as his Messenger.

Revelation 1:1

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him to make known to his servants, concerning what must shortly take place, and which he sent and revealed by his angel to his servant John,