John 12:50

And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

In Context

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

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Cross References

John 6:68Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

John 20:31But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.

1 John 2:25And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

1 John 5:11And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

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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