John 7:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So Jesus replied,“My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

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  • John 14:24 : 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.
  • John 3:11 : 11 I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.
  • John 17:8 : 8 because 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.
  • John 17:14 : 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
  • John 5:23-24 : 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. 24 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.
  • John 5:30 : 30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.
  • John 6:38-40 : 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. 39 Now this is the will of the one who sent me– that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father– for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
  • John 6:44 : 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.
  • John 8:28 : 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 12:49-50 : 49 For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”
  • John 14:10 : 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.
  • Rev 1:1 : 1 ¶ The Prologue The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must happen very soon. He made it clear by sending his angel to his servant John,
  • John 3:31 : 31 The one who comes from above is superior to all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to all.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 7:17-19
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    17If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

    18The 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.

    19Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”

  • John 7:28-29
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    28Then 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,

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

  • John 6:38
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    38For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

  • John 12:49
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    49For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

  • John 8:26
    74%

    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.”

  • John 14:24
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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.

  • John 5:30-31
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    30I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

    31More Testimony About Jesus“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

  • John 13:16
    73%

    16I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

  • John 12:30
    72%

    30Jesus said,“This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.

  • John 7:15
    72%

    15Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said,“How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?”

  • John 18:19
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    19Jesus Questioned by Annas While this was happening, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

  • John 8:28-29
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    72%

    28Then 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.

    29And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

  • John 8:49-50
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    72%

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

    50I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.

  • John 8:14-16
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    72%

    14Jesus 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.

    15You people judge by outward appearances; I do not judge anyone.

    16But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

  • John 7:6
    71%

    6So Jesus replied,“My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

  • John 18:36
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    36Jesus replied,“My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.”

  • John 8:54
    71%

    54Jesus 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.’

  • John 8:42
    71%

    42Jesus 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.

  • John 12:44-45
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    44Jesus’ 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,

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

  • John 5:17
    70%

    17So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

  • John 6:45
    70%

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

  • John 5:38
    70%

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

  • John 8:19-20
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    19Then 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.”

    20(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

  • John 4:34
    70%

    34Jesus said to them,“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

  • Mark 7:7
    70%

    7They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’

  • John 14:10
    70%

    10Do 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.

  • Matt 7:29
    70%

    29because he taught them like one who had authority, not like their experts in the law.

  • John 5:19
    70%

    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.

  • John 8:23
    70%

    23Jesus replied,“You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

  • John 13:20
    69%

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

  • John 7:36
    69%

    36What did he mean by saying,‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

  • John 10:37
    69%

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

  • John 18:34
    69%

    34Jesus replied,“Are you saying this on your own initiative, or have others told you about me?”

  • John 16:15
    69%

    15Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

  • John 3:34
    69%

    34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

  • John 17:8
    69%

    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.

  • John 18:8
    69%

    8Jesus replied,“I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go.”

  • John 8:47
    69%

    47The 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 17:16
    69%

    16They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.

  • John 5:36
    69%

    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.