John 7:16

Jesus told them, “God sent me to you, and he told me to teach these things. They are his words, not mine.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

In Context

15The Jewish leaders got a shock, and said to each other, “How does this man know so much? He has never been to any of our schools.”

17If anyone really wants to live God’s way, they will know that those words came from God, and that I did not make them up.

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Cross References

John 3:31Yes, Jesus is the most important one, he is the man that came from heaven. But we belong to the earth, so we can only talk about things we see and hear on earth. But Jesus came from heaven, so he knows about everything.

John 5:30You see, I can’t do anything on my own. My father sent me to the world, and he tells me the way to judge. I only want to judge the way he wants me to, not my own way. And his way is the right way, so I only judge the right way.

John 6:44Listen. God is my father, and he is the one that sent me here. He brings people to me, and they are the only people that can come to me. They are the people that I will make alive again on the day when the world will finish up.

John 12:49You see, the words I said to you are not just mine. The father told me what to say, and he sent me here to tell you his message.

John 14:24But if somebody doesn’t love me, they don’t do what I tell them. And these things that I tell you are not my own words, but they come from my father, the one that sent me here.

John 17:14I told them your message, and they listened to me, and they believed me. They don’t belong here in this world, just like I don’t belong here. So the people that belong to this world hate them.

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 →

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