John 5:30

Jesus does nothing on his own; his judgment is just because he seeks the Father's will, not his own. His judgment is righteous because of his perfect submission.

Cross-references · 19

• John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
• 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 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
• John 14:10Don’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.
• Matt 26:39He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
• 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.
• Ps 40:7–8Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
• John 8:15–16You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
• Isa 11:3–4His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
• Rom 15:3For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
• John 8:50But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
• John 8:42Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
• John 17:4I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
• Ps 96:13before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.
• John 18:11Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”
• Gen 18:25Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
• Rom 2:5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
• Hos 10:7–10Samaria and her king float away, like a twig on the water.
• Rom 2:2We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

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