John 8:42

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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  • 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 12:49 : 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • John 17:25 : 25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.
  • 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. Our Lord, come!
  • Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
  • 1 John 5:1-2 : 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.
  • 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,
  • John 5:23 : 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.
  • John 5:43 : 43 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.
  • John 7:28-29 : 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, 29 but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”
  • John 15:23-24 : 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.
  • John 16:27-28 : 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.”
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 The Sacrilege of Priestly Service“A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The LORD of Heaven’s Armies asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply,‘How have we made light of your name?’
  • John 1:14 : 14 Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory– the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

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  • John 16:27-28
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    27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

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

  • John 8:37-41
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    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

    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!”

    39They answered him,“Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied,“If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

    40But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

    41You people are doing the deeds of your father.”Then they said to Jesus,“We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

  • John 8:18-19
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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.”

  • 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 5:42-43
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    42but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

    43I 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.

  • 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 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 8:43-44
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    43Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

    44You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

  • John 6:42
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    42and they said,“Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say,‘I have come down from heaven’?”

  • 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 8:14
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    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.

  • 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.

  • 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 8:28-29
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    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 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 10:36-37
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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’?

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

  • John 5:36-38
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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.

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

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

  • John 15:22-24
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    22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

    23The one who hates me hates my Father too.

    24If 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.

  • John 8:46-47
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    46Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me?

    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 8:16
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    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 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 6:65
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    65So Jesus added,“Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”

  • 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.

  • John 8:26
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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.”

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

  • John 7:16
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    16So Jesus replied,“My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

  • John 8:49
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    49Jesus answered,“I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father– and yet you dishonor me.

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

    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 14:10
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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.

  • John 15:26
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    26When 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 8:21
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    21Where Jesus Came From and Where He is Going Then Jesus said to them again,“I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”