John 7:16
Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who sent me.
Text-Critical English NT
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 about earthly things. But he who comes from heaven is above all.
John 5:30“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.
John 6:44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.
John 12:49For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me gave me a commandment as to what I should say and what I should speak.
John 14:24Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
John 17:14I have given them yoʋr 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 →