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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.
John 14:10 · New American Standard Bible
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.
  • BSB 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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Quick answer

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

Cross-references · 23

  • John 5:19Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
  • John 10:38But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
  • Acts 10:38even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
  • John 10:30I and the Father are one.”
  • John 12:49For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
  • John 8:28Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
  • Col 2:9For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,
  • John 6:38–40For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
  • John 17:8for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
  • John 5:17But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”
  • John 17:21–23that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
  • 2 Cor 5:19namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
  • John 14:20In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
  • John 8:38I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”
  • John 7:16Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
  • John 3:32–34What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
  • John 1:1–3In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
  • John 7:28–29Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.
  • 1 Jn 5:7For there are three who testify:
  • Col 1:19For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;
  • John 11:26Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
  • John 8:40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.
  • Ps 68:16–18Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

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Christ at the center

John declares him plainly: the eternal Word made flesh, the Lamb of God, the great 'I AM' — bread, light, door, shepherd, way, truth, life, resurrection — that you may believe and have life in his name.

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