John 8:29

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • Isa 42:1 : 1 The Lord Commissions His Special Servant“Here is my servant whom I support, my chosen one in whom I take pleasure. I have placed my Spirit on him; he will make just decrees for the nations.
  • 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 8:16 : 16 But 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 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them,“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.
  • John 16:32 : 32 Look, a time is coming– and has come– when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.
  • 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.
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said,“This is my one dear Son, in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!”
  • John 15:10 : 10 If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
  • 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed for all the Gentiles to hear. And so I was delivered from the lion’s mouth!
  • John 14:10-11 : 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.
  • Isa 42:6 : 6 “I, the LORD, officially commission you; I take hold of your hand. I protect you and make you a covenant mediator for people, and a light to the nations,
  • Isa 42:21 : 21 The LORD wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it.
  • Isa 49:4-8 : 4 But I thought,“I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.” But the LORD will vindicate me; my God will reward me. 5 So now the LORD says, the one who formed me from birth to be his servant– he did this to restore Jacob to himself, so that Israel might be gathered to him; and I will be honored in the LORD’s sight, for my God is my source of strength– 6 he says,“Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant, to reestablish the tribes of Jacob, and restore the remnant of Israel? I will make you a light to the nations, so you can bring my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.” 7 This is what the LORD, the protector of Israel, their Holy One, says to the one who is despised and rejected by nations, a servant of rulers:“Kings will see and rise in respect, princes will bow down, because of the faithful LORD, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.” 8 This is what the LORD says:“At the time I decide to show my favor, I will respond to you; in the day of deliverance I will help you; I will protect you and make you a covenant mediator for people, to rebuild the land and to reassign the desolate property.
  • 1 John 2:1 : 1 (My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One,
  • John 17:4 : 4 I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.
  • Isa 50:4-9 : 4 The Servant Perseveres The Sovereign LORD has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do. 5 The Sovereign LORD has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back. 6 I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting. 7 But the Sovereign LORD helps me, so I am not humiliated. For that reason I am steadfastly resolved; I know I will not be put to shame. 8 The one who vindicates me is close by. Who dares to argue with me? Let us confront each other! Who is my accuser? Let him challenge me! 9 Look, the Sovereign LORD helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like clothes; a moth will eat away at them.
  • Matt 3:17 : 17 And a voice from heaven said,“This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.”
  • John 14:31 : 31 but 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.
  • 2 Tim 4:22 : 22 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
  • Heb 4:15 : 15 For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.
  • Heb 5:8-9 : 8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered. 9 And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
  • Heb 7:26 : 26 For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
  • Heb 10:5-9 : 5 So when he came into the world, he said,“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. 6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in. 7 “Then I said,‘Here I am: I have come– it is written of me in the scroll of the book– to do your will, O God.’” 8 When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law), 9 then he says,“Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second. 10 By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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  • 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.

  • 16 But 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.

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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.”

  • 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.

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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.

  • John 5:19-20
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    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.

    20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

  • 31 but 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.

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    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 5:36-37
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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,

  • 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.”

  • 25 “I have spoken these things while staying with you.

  • 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!”

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

  • John 6:38-39
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    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.

  • 32 Look, a time is coming– and has come– when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

  • 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.

  • 18 I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

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    29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

    30 The Father and I are one.”

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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.”

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    23 I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

    24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

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

  • 4 I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.

  • 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.

  • 30 While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.

  • 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.

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

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    26 Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

    27 All 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.

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

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

  • 13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

  • 33 Then Jesus said,“I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

  • 9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

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

  • 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,

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

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

  • 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.’

  • 17 This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

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

  • 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.”