John 8:42

Which verses does John 8:42 point to?

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1. John 12:4999 votes

   I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.

2. John 14:1089 votes

   Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.

3. John 17:866 votes

   For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

4. John 17:2540 votes

   Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.

5. John 15:23–2436 votes

   Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

6. Malachi 1:635 votes

   “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

7. John 1:1434 votes

   The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

8. 1 John 5:1–232 votes

   Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

9. 1 John 4:1431 votes

   And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

10. John 5:4329 votes

    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.

11. 1 Corinthians 16:2228 votes
12. John 7:28–2927 votes

    Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him, but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”

13. John 3:1726 votes

    For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

14. John 5:2324 votes

    so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

15. John 16:27–2823 votes
16. 1 John 4:9–1023 votes
17. Revelation 22:119 votes
18. Galatians 4:417 votes

    But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Which verses point to John 8:42?

The 10 strongest of 34.

• John 14:15 86
• Mark 7:6 46
• 1 John 4:9 16
• 1 John 5:1 16
• John 3:17 15
• John 12:49 10
• John 5:30 8
• John 14:24 8
• John 6:33 7
• John 7:28 7