John 8:49

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • Prov 26:4-5 : 4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you yourself also be like him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own opinion.
  • Isa 42:21 : 21 The LORD wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it.
  • Isa 49:3 : 3 He said to me,“You are my servant, Israel, through whom I will reveal my splendor.”
  • Matt 3:15-17 : 15 So Jesus replied to him,“Let it happen now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John yielded to him. 16 After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said,“This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.”
  • John 8:29 : 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.”
  • John 11:4 : 4 When Jesus heard this, he said,“This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
  • John 13:31-32 : 31 The Prediction of Peter’s Denial When Judas had gone out, Jesus said,“Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away.
  • John 14:13 : 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  • John 17:4 : 4 I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.
  • Phil 2:6-9 : 6 who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature. 8 He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death– even death on a cross! 9 As a result God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow– in heaven and on earth and under the earth– 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
  • 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly.
  • John 12:28 : 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”

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  • John 8:40-48
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    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.”

    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.

    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.

    45But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.

    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.”

    48The Judeans replied,“Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”

  • John 8:52-55
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    52Then the Judeans responded,“Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say,‘If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.’

    53You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”

    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 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 5:41-44
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    41“I do not accept praise from people,

    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.

    44How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?

  • John 8:38
    74%

    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 5:23
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    23so 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 8:19
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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.”

  • John 7:20-21
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    20The crowd answered,“You’re possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?”

    21Jesus replied,“I performed one miracle and you are all amazed.

  • 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 5:17-18
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    17So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

    18For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

  • John 10:32-33
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    32Jesus said to them,“I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”

    33The Jewish leaders replied,“We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”

  • John 15:23-24
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    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 12:28
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    28Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”

  • John 6:70
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    70Jesus replied,“Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?”

  • John 8:28
    70%

    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.

  • John 14:30
    70%

    30I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

  • John 8:13-15
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    13So the Pharisees objected,“You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!”

    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.

  • John 10:20
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    20Many of them were saying,“He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?”

  • Mark 3:30
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    30(because they said,“He has an unclean spirit”).

  • John 10:30
    69%

    30The Father and I are one.”

  • John 12:30
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    30Jesus said,“This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.

  • Mark 5:7
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    7Then he cried out with a loud voice,“Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I implore you by God– do not torment me!”

  • John 7:16
    69%

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

  • Luke 4:8
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    8Jesus answered him,“It is written,‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”

  • John 18:34
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    34Jesus replied,“Are you saying this on your own initiative, or have others told you about 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 7:18
    69%

    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.

  • Luke 11:19
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    19Now if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

  • John 17:5
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    5And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.