John 8:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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  • 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 5:19 : 19 So 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 3:14 : 14 Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
  • 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 12:49-50 : 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.”
  • Rom 1:4 : 4 who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people, 16 because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.
  • Heb 2:2-3 : 2 For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty, 3 how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,
  • John 16:10 : 10 concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;
  • John 19:18 : 18 There they crucified him along with two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.
  • Acts 2:41 : 41 So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.
  • Acts 4:4 : 4 But many of those who had listened to the message believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
  • John 8:24 : 24 Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
  • John 11:42 : 42 I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
  • John 12:32-34 : 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” 33 (Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.) 34 Then the crowd responded,“We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say,‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”
  • Num 16:28-30 : 28 Then Moses said,“This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will. 29 If these men die a natural death, or if they share the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me. 30 But if the LORD does something entirely new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up along with all that they have, and they go down alive to the grave, then you will know that these men have despised the LORD.
  • Matt 27:50-54 : 50 Then Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit. 51 Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split apart. 52 And tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had died were raised. 53 (They came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.) 54 Now when the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and what took place, they were extremely terrified and said,“Truly this one was God’s Son!”
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 8:26-27
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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.”

    27(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

  • John 8:29
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    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 5:19
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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.

  • John 8:54-55
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    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.’

    55Yet 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.

  • 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 8:38
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    38I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

  • John 14:31
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    31but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • John 5:30
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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.

  • John 10:38
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    38But 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.”

  • John 8:14-16
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    76%

    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 12:28
    76%

    28Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”

  • John 12:49-50
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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.

    50And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

  • John 18:8
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    8Jesus replied,“I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go.”

  • John 8:18-20
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    18I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

    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 14:10-11
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    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.

    11Believe 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.

  • John 12:32-33
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    32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

    33(Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)

  • John 16:28
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    28I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

  • Matt 11:27
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    27All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

  • John 17:1
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    1Jesus Prays for the Father to Glorify Him When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said,“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you–

  • John 8:23-24
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    23Jesus replied,“You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

    24Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

  • John 14:20
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    20You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

  • John 14:7
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    7If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

  • John 14:28
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    28You 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.

  • Luke 10:22
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    22All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”

  • John 10:25
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    25Jesus replied,“I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

  • John 13:19
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    19I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.

  • John 5:36
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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.

  • John 8:42
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    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 10:36
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    36do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world,‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said,‘I am the Son of God’?

  • John 4:26
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    26Jesus said to her,“I, the one speaking to you, am he.”

  • John 8:50
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    50I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.

  • 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 13:3
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    3Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

  • John 10:30
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    30The Father and I are one.”

  • John 12:45
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    45and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

  • John 16:25
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    25“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

  • John 17:25
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    25Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

  • John 8:12
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    12Jesus as the Light of the World Then Jesus spoke out again,“I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

  • John 17:8
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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.