John 7:16
Therefore Jesus answered them and said, “My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
In Context
Cross References
John 3:31He who comes from above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
John 5:30I can of My own self do nothing. Even as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me. 1 The Fourfold Witness
John 6:44No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me should draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 12:49For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.
John 14:24He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.
John 17:14I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Matthew Henry on John 7:15-37
Christ at the Feast of Tabernacles. 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and… Read the whole commentary →