John 7:16
Yeshua [Salvation] therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
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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 belongs to the earth, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
John 5:30+ 5:30. MP: Messiah comes to do God’s will. (Ps 40:7-8 (context 40:6-10)) + 5:30. MP: Messiah is everlasting with the authority of his father (Yahweh and ancestor David). Now the Hebrew idiom “Eternal Father” in the context of a ruler on David’s throne (Is 9:7). Eternal father could mean “The ruler with authority to pass on or deny access to eternal life”. (Is 9:6b) + 5:30. MP: Messiah is just. (Zech 9:9c) I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, + 5:30. MP: Messiah will act with righteousness. (Ps 45:7) and my judgment is upright; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of 'Avi ·my Father· who sent me.
John 6:44No one can come to me unless Abba Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
John 12:49+ 12:49 (49-50) MP: Messiah is everlasting with the authority of his father (Yahweh and ancestor David). Now the Hebrew idiom “Eternal Father” in the context of a ruler on David’s throne (Is 9:7). Eternal father could mean “The ruler with authority to pass on or deny access to eternal life”. (Is 9:6b) + 12:49 (49-50) MP: Messiah is the “Prince of Peace”. This role can be understood as “The chief leader of the people establishing a peaceful covenant relationship with God”. (Is 9:6b) + 12:49. MP: Messiah is called Israel. Messiah comes from the nation of Israel. Messiah is also called Israel as the patriarch Jacob was renamed Israel (Gen 32:28). Being called Israel as a relationship role, Messiah is the example of right relationship with Yahweh for all Israel to emulate. (Is 49:3b) + 12:49 (49-50) MP: The Messiah speaks with knowledge taught to him from God, not from men. (Is 50:4) + 12:49. MP: Messiah is God’s servant born in Bethlehem, “the future ruler of Israel”. (Mic 5:2) For I spoke not from myself, but haAbba ·the Father· who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. + 12:49. Quoted from Deut 18:18
John 14:24He who does not have agapao ·total devotion love· for me does not keep my words. The word which you hear is not mine, but from haAbba ·the Father· who sent me.
John 17:14I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even 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 →