John 3:34

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

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  • John 3:17 : 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
  • John 5:26 : 26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,
  • Luke 4:18 : 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,
  • Acts 10:38 : 38 with respect to Jesus from Nazareth, that God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.
  • John 1:16 : 16 For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.
  • Num 11:25 : 25 And the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to them, and he took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but did not do so again.
  • 2 Kgs 2:9 : 9 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha,“What can I do for you, before I am taken away from you?” Elisha answered,“May I receive a double portion of the prophetic spirit that energizes you.”
  • Ps 45:7 : 7 You love justice and hate evil. For this reason God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy, elevating you above your companions.
  • Isa 11:2-5 : 2 The LORD’s Spirit will rest on him– a Spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom, a Spirit that provides the ability to execute plans, a Spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the LORD. 3 He will take delight in obeying the LORD. He will not judge by mere appearances, or make decisions on the basis of hearsay. 4 He will treat the poor fairly, and make right decisions for the downtrodden of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and order the wicked to be executed. 5 Justice will be like a belt around his waist, integrity will be like a belt around his hips.
  • Isa 59:21 : 21 “As for me, this is my promise to them,” says the LORD.“My Spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,” says the LORD.
  • Isa 62:1-3 : 1 The Lord Takes Delight in Zion“For the sake of Zion I will not be silent; for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet, until her vindication shines brightly and her deliverance burns like a torch.” 2 Nations will see your vindication, and all kings your splendor. You will be called by a new name that the LORD himself will give you. 3 You will be a majestic crown in the hand of the LORD, a royal turban in the hand of your God.
  • Matt 12:18 : 18 “Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I take great delight. I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
  • John 7:16 : 16 So Jesus replied,“My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.
  • John 7:37-39 : 37 Teaching About the Spirit On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out,“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and 38 let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says,‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)
  • John 8:26-28 : 26 I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.” 27 (They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.) 28 Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.
  • John 8:40 : 40 But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!
  • John 8:47 : 47 The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”
  • John 15:26 : 26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father– the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father– he will testify about me,
  • John 16:7 : 7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 To me– less than the least of all the saints– this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ
  • Eph 4:7-9 : 7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8 Therefore it says,“When he ascended on high he captured captives; he gave gifts to men.” 9 Now what is the meaning of“he ascended,” except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth? 10 He, the very one who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things. 11 And he himself gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God– a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.
  • Col 1:19 : 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son
  • Col 2:9 : 9 For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,
  • Rev 21:6 : 6 He also said to me,“It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give water free of charge from the spring of the water of life.
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life– water as clear as crystal– pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
  • Rev 22:16-17 : 16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star!” 17 And the Spirit and the bride say,“Come!” And let the one who hears say:“Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wants it take the water of life free of charge.

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    33And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me,‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining– this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

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    36“But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete– the deeds I am now doing– testify about me that the Father has sent me.

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    8because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

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    26I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”

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    26For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

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    2just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

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    20For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

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    24The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

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    19So Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

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    29but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”

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    45and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.