I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Parallel translations
- WEB I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
- BSB I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.
- NKJV I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.
- NASB I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
- NLT For I have come to you in my Father’s name, and you have rejected me. Yet if others come in their own name, you gladly welcome them.
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Quick answer
Jesus came in the Father's name and they reject him, yet they would receive an impostor coming in his own name. They prefer self-promoters to the true Messiah.
Overview
Jesus contrasts his coming in the Father's name with the welcome they give to those who come on their own authority. Their rejection of the genuine Messiah while embracing pretenders exposes their spiritual condition. It is a sober warning against being deceived by self-exalting false leaders while refusing Christ.
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Cross-references · 12
- Matt 24:5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
- John 10:25Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.
- John 17:4–6I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
- Heb 5:4–5And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
- John 6:38For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
- John 8:28–29Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
- John 12:28Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
- Matt 24:24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
- John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
- Acts 5:36–37For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.
- Acts 21:38Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
- Ezek 23:21Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
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