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John 12:49

For I haven’t spoken on my own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent me has given me commandment, what to say, and what to speak.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

48Whoever rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges them. The words that I spoke are what will judge him at the last day.

50I know that His commandment is eternal life, so the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told me.”

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Cross References

John 3:11Most assuredly, I tell you, we speak what we know and testify what we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.

John 5:30I can do nothing by myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

John 8:26I have many things to say and judge about you, but He who sent me is true, and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”

John 14:10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you aren’t my own, but from the Father who lives in me. He does the works.

John 15:15I don’t call you servants any longer, because a servant doesn’t know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.

Matthew Henry on John 12:45-50

Christ's Last Discourse with the Jews. 44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. 45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the… Read the whole commentary →

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