John 7:17
if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or — I do speak from myself.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
16Jesus answered them and said, 'My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;
Cross References
Psalms 25:8Good and upright [is] Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way.
Psalms 25:14The secret of Jehovah [is] for those fearing Him, And His covenant — to cause them to know.
Psalms 119:101From every evil path I restrained my feet, So that I keep Thy word.
Jeremiah 31:33For this [is] the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.
Hosea 6:3And we know — we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain — sprinkling earth.'
Malachi 4:2And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness — and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.
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 →