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.
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
- KJV Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
- NKJV Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
- NASB 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, but the Father, as He remains in Me, does His works.
- NLT Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me.
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Jesus affirms His mutual indwelling with the Father, so that His words and works are the Father's. It expresses the profound unity between the Father and the Son.
Overview
Jesus declares that He is in the Father and the Father in Him, a mutual indwelling that grounds the divine origin of His words and works. What He says and does is the Father acting through Him. The verse is a key text for the church's understanding of the relationship within the Godhead and Christ's full deity.
Cross-references & the web
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- John 5:19So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
- John 10:38But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.”
- Acts 10:38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
- John 10:30I and the Father are one.”
- John 12:49I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
- John 8:28So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.
- Col 2:9For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
- John 6:38–40For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
- John 17:8For 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.
- John 5:17But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”
- John 17:21–23that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
- 2 Cor 5:19that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
- John 14:20On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.
- John 8:38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
- John 7:16“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.
- John 3:32–34He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.
- John 1:1–3In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- John 7:28–29Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,
- 1 Jn 5:7For there are three that testify:
- Col 1:19For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,
- John 11:26And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
- John 8:40But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.
- Ps 68:16–18Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
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