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John 12:49

For I did not speak for myself, but it is the Father who sent me, who has given me the command about 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

48The one who rejects me and who does not receive my words, has one who judges him. The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

50I know that his command is eternal life, so that is what I say—just as the Father has spoken to me, so I speak.”

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Cross References

John 3:11Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak what we know, and we testify about what we have seen. Yet you do not accept our testimony.

John 5:30I can do nothing from myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous because I am not seeking my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 8:26I have many things to speak and to judge about you. However, he who sent me is true; and the things that I heard from him, these things I say to the world.”

John 14:10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak from my own authority, but the Father living in me is doing his work.

John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Revelation 1:1This is the revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John.

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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