John 7:16
So Jesus answered them and said: “What I teach is not mine, but His who sent me.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
In Context
15And the Jews were marveling saying, “How is this man learned, not having been educated?”
Cross References
John 3:31“He 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 am not able to do anything from myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judging is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent me.
John 6:44No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 12:49because I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me, He gave me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.
John 14:24The one who does not love me does not keep my words; further, the word which you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.
John 17:14“I 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 →