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The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.
John 3:35 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
  • KJV The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
  • NKJV The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.
  • NASB The Father loves the Son and has entrusted all things to His hand.
  • NLT The Father loves his Son and has put everything into his hands.

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Quick answer

The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in his hands. Christ holds supreme authority by the Father's love and gift.

Overview

The intimate love between Father and Son grounds the Son's universal authority over all things. This sovereignty extends to salvation and judgment, as the next verse makes plain. It assures believers that the one in whom they trust holds everything in his hands.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • Matt 28:18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
  • Luke 10:22All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”
  • John 5:20The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. And to your amazement, He will show Him even greater works than these.
  • John 5:22Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,
  • Matt 11:27All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
  • John 17:2For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
  • Eph 1:22And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
  • Heb 2:8–9and placed everything under his feet.” When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.
  • John 13:3Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.
  • Isa 9:6–7For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
  • 1 Pet 3:22who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.
  • 1 Cor 15:27For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him.
  • Ps 2:8Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
  • Heb 1:2But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.
  • Phil 2:9–11Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,
  • Matt 17:5While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
  • Isa 42:1“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
  • John 15:9As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
  • Gen 41:55When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
  • John 17:23I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.
  • Matt 3:17And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
  • John 17:26And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”
  • Gen 41:44And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of Egypt shall lift his hand or foot.”
  • Prov 8:30Then I was a skilled craftsman at His side, and His delight day by day, rejoicing always in His presence.

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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.

How John 3:35 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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