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John 12:49

WEB

49For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak.

KJV

49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

BSB

49I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.

FBV

49For I'm not speaking for myself but for my Father who sent me. He is the one who instructed me what to say and how to say it.

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Extra References

John 14:10

10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.


John 8:26

26I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However, he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”


John 5:30

30I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is righteous, because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.


John 17:8

8for the words which you have given me I have given to them; and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.


Deuteronomy 18:18

18I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.


John 14:31

31But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.


John 15:15

15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.


John 8:42

42Therefore Jesus said to them, If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.


John 3:11

11Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.


John 3:32

32What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.