John 12:49
Good News Translation
This is true, because I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has commanded me what I must say and speak.

New Revised Standard Version
for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak.

Contemporary English Version
I don't speak on my own. I say only what the Father who sent me has told me to say.

New American Bible
because I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and speak.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak.

John 3:11,32 Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we testify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony. . . .

John 5:30 I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so I judge. And my judgment is just: because I seek not my own will. but the will of him that sent me.

John 6:38-40 Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me. . . .

John 8:26,42 Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world. . . .

John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father who abideth in me, he doth the works.

John 15:15 I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends. because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.

John 17:8 Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me.

Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make known to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass: and signified, sending by his angel to his servant John,

Context
Belief and Unbelief
48He that despiseth me and receiveth not my words hath one that judgeth him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. 49For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak. 50And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. The things therefore that I speak, even as the Father said unto me, so do I speak.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:18
I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

John 3:11
Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we testify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony.

John 5:19
Then Jesus answered and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner.

John 6:68
And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.

John 7:16
Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

John 8:26
Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world.

John 8:28
Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up, the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself. But as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak.

John 14:10
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father who abideth in me, he doth the works.

John 14:24
He that loveth me not keepeth not my words. And the word which you have heard is not mine; but the Father's who sent me.

John 14:31
But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the Father hath given me commandments, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.

John 17:8
Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me.

John 12:48
Top of Page
Top of Page