For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
Parallel translations
- KJV For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
- BSB For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
- NKJV For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.
- NASB For He whom God sent speaks the words of God; for He does not give the Spirit sparingly.
- NLT For he is sent by God. He speaks God’s words, for God gives him the Spirit without limit.
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Quick answer
The one God sent speaks God's own words because God gives him the Spirit without measure. Jesus' words are fully and uniquely the words of God.
Overview
Unlike the prophets who received the Spirit in measure, the Son is endowed with the Spirit without limit, so his speech perfectly conveys God's message. This explains the unique authority of Jesus' testimony. It affirms his unparalleled role as the definitive revealer of God.
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Cross-references · 27
- 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.
- Matt 12:18“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.
- John 15:26“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
- John 5:26For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
- Isa 11:2–5Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
- Col 2:9For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,
- Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
- John 7:37–39Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
- Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
- John 7:16Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
- Col 1:19For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;
- John 3:17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
- John 1:16From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
- Eph 3:8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
- John 8:47He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”
- John 16:7Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
- Num 11:25Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
- Rev 22:1He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
- Ps 45:7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
- 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.
- Isa 59:21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”
- Rev 21:6He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
- John 8:26–28I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”
- 2 Kgs 2:9When they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.”
- Rev 22:16–17I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star.”
- Isa 62:1–3For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.
- Eph 4:7–13But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
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