John 5:43

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

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  • John 10:25 : 25 Jesus replied,“I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.
  • John 8:28-29 : 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. 29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”
  • Matt 24:5 : 5 For many will come in my name, saying,‘I am the Christ,’ and they will mislead many.
  • John 17:4-6 : 4 I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created. 6 Jesus Prays for the Disciples“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.
  • Acts 5:36-37 : 36 For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and nothing came of it. 37 After him Judas the Galilean arose in the days of the census, and incited people to follow him in revolt. He too was killed, and all who followed him were scattered.
  • Heb 5:4-5 : 4 And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was. 5 So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God, who said to him,“You are my Son! Today I have fathered you,”
  • Matt 24:24 : 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
  • John 3:16 : 16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
  • John 12:28 : 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
  • Ezek 23:21 : 21 This is how you assessed the obscene conduct of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your nipples and squeezed your young breasts.
  • Acts 21:38 : 38 Then you’re not that Egyptian who started a rebellion and led the four thousand men of the‘Assassins’ into the wilderness some time ago?”

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  • John 5:44-45
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    44 How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?

    45 “Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

  • John 5:36-42
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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.

    37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

    38 nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

    39 You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

    40 but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

    41 “I do not accept praise from people,

    42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

  • 42 Jesus replied,“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

  • 11 He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

  • 20 I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”

  • 40 Rewards“Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.

  • 25 Jesus replied,“I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

  • John 8:54-55
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    54 Jesus replied,“If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say,‘He is our God.’

    55 Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

  • 28 Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out,“You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

  • John 6:37-38
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    37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

    38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

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    37 If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

    38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

  • 23 so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

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    27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

    28 I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

  • 37 “Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”

  • 4 For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough!

  • John 5:31-32
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    31 More Testimony About Jesus“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

    32 There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.

  • 38 I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

  • 65 So Jesus added,“Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”

  • 24 The 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.

  • 19 Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”

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    23 The one who hates me hates my Father too.

    24 If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.

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    10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

    11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

  • 21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

  • John 6:44-45
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    44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

    45 It is written in the prophets,‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

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    44 Jesus’ Final Public Words But Jesus shouted out,“The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,

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

  • 18 The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

  • 48 The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

  • 28 You heard me say to you,‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

  • 49 Jesus answered,“I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father– and yet you dishonor me.

  • 6 Many will come in my name, saying,‘I am he,’ and they will mislead many.

  • 34 (I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)

  • 14 Jesus answered,“Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

  • 14 And if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah, who is to come.

  • 47 But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?”