Quotes About Authority

The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks as one from the earth. The One who comes from heaven is above all.

For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.

The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.

So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.

This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.

so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It is unlawful for you to carry your mat.”

“Who is this man who told you to pick it up and walk?” they asked.

Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. And to your amazement, He will show Him even greater works than these.

Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

And He has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.

There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is valid.

I have come in My Fatherís name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.

Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.

They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ëI have come down from heaven?í”

Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”

Having said this, Jesus remained in Galilee.

About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.

“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.

He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.

Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”