John 12:50

And I know that His command is the Life of the Ages. What therefore I speak, I speak just as the Father has bidden me."

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

In Context

49Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in what words to speak.

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Cross References

John 6:68"Master," replied Simon Peter, "to whom shall we go? Your teachings tell us of the Life of the Ages.

John 20:31But these have been recorded in order that you may believe that He is the Christ, the Son of God, and that, through believing, you may have Life through His name.

1 John 2:25And this is the promise which He Himself has given us--the Life of the Ages.

1 John 5:11And that testimony is to the effect that God has given us the Life of the Ages, and that this Life is in His Son.

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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