John 12:49
47 As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
50 And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
- KJV
- For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
- WEB
- For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak.
- ASV
- For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
- DARBY
- For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what I should say and what I should speak;
- BLB
- For I did not speak from Myself, but the Father Himself, having sent Me, has given Me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak.
- ÅB
- For jeg har ikke talt av meg selv, men Faren, som har sendt meg, han har gitt meg befaling om hva jeg skal si og hva jeg skal tale,
- OTB
- For jeg har ikke talt på egen hånd, men Faderen som har sendt meg, har instruert meg om å si alt jeg har sagt.
- B1930
- For jeg har ikke talt av mig selv, men Faderen, som har sendt mig, han har gitt mig befaling om hvad jeg skal si og hvad jeg skal tale,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 14:10
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.
Read in contextJohn 8:26
“I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”
Read in contextJohn 5:30
I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
Read in contextJohn 17:8
For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 18:18
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
Read in contextJohn 14:31
But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.
Read in contextJohn 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
Read in contextJohn 8:42
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
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