John 8:26

Jesus could say much in judgment, but he faithfully speaks to the world only what he has heard from the trustworthy Father who sent him. His message carries the Father's own authority.

Cross-references · 13

• John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
• John 12:47–50If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
• 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.
• 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 7:28Jesus 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.
• John 16:12“I have yet many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.
• Heb 5:11–12About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
• John 3:32–33What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
• John 7:16Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
• 2 Cor 1:18But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”
• John 5:42–43But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.
• John 8:16–17Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
• John 9:39–41Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

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