John 8:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So Jesus said, When the Son of man has been lifted up by you, then it will be clear to you who I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but say as the Father gave me teaching.

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  • John 5:30 : 30 Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.
  • John 5:19 : 19 So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.
  • John 3:14 : 14 As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.
  • John 12:49-50 : 49 For I have not said it on my authority, but the Father who sent me gave me orders what to say and how to say it. 50 And I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I say, I say them even as the Father says them to me.
  • Rom 1:4 : 4 But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord,
  • 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men; 16 Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.
  • Heb 2:2-3 : 2 Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment; 3 What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;
  • John 16:10 : 10 Of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you will see me no more;
  • John 19:18 : 18 Where they put him on the cross with two others, one on this side and one on that, and Jesus in the middle.
  • Acts 2:41 : 41 Then those who gave hearing to his words had baptism: and about three thousand souls were joined to them that day.
  • Acts 4:4 : 4 But a number of those who gave hearing to the word had faith; and they were now about five thousand.
  • John 8:24 : 24 For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.
  • John 11:42 : 42 I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.
  • John 12:32-34 : 32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will make all men come to me. 33 (This he said, pointing to the sort of death he would have.) 34 Then the people in answer said to him, The law says that the Christ will have life without end: how say you then that it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?
  • Num 16:28-30 : 28 And Moses said, Now you will see that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and I have not done them of myself. 29 If these men have the common death of men, or if the natural fate of all men overtakes them, then the Lord has not sent me. 30 But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men.
  • Matt 27:50-54 : 50 And Jesus gave another loud cry, and gave up his spirit. 51 And the curtain of the Temple was parted in two from end to end; and there was an earth-shock; and the rocks were broken; 52 And the resting-places of the dead came open; and the bodies of a number of sleeping saints came to life; 53 And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people. 54 Now the captain and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earth-shock and the things which were done, were in great fear and said, Truly this was a son of God.
  • John 3:11 : 11 Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

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    29 He who sent me is with me; he has not gone from me, because at all times I do the things which are pleasing to him.

  • John 5:19
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    19 So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.

  • John 8:54-55
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    54 Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God.

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    29 I have knowledge of him because I came from him and he sent me.

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    38 I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.

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    31 But he comes so that the world may see that I have love for the Father, and that I am doing as I am ordered by the Father. Get up, and let us go.

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    28 Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.

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    49 For I have not said it on my authority, but the Father who sent me gave me orders what to say and how to say it.

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  • John 8:18-20
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    18 I give witness about myself and the Father who sent me gives witness about me.

    19 Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus said in answer, You have no knowledge of me or of my Father: if you had knowledge of me you would have knowledge of my Father.

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    33 (This he said, pointing to the sort of death he would have.)

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    23 And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

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    20 At that time it will be clear to you that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I in you.

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    26 Jesus said to her, I, who am talking to you, am he.

  • John 8:50
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    50 I, however, am not in search of glory for myself: there is One who is searching for it and he is judge.

  • John 6:38
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    38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.

  • John 13:3
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    30 I and my Father are one.

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    45 And he who sees me, sees him who sent me.

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  • John 17:25
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    8 Because I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they have taken them to heart, and have certain knowledge that I came from you, and they have faith that you sent me.