John 7:16
Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not mine, but is of him who sent me.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
In Context
15Then the Jews marveled, saying, “How does this man know so much? He has never been educated.”
Cross References
John 3:31He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks about the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
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 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 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.
John 14:24He who does not love me does not keep my words. The word that you hear is not from me but from the Father who sent me.
John 17:14I have given them your 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 →