Quotes About Authority

Jesus answered them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.

If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isnít this the man they are trying to kill?

Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?

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,

When the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him.

Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him.

Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didnít you bring Him in?”

“Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered.

“Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees.

“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

“Arenít you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”

Early in the morning He went back into the temple courts. All the people came to Him, and He sat down to teach them.

In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?”

So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not valid.”

But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone; I am with the Father who sent Me.

Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.

I am One who testifies about Myself, and the Father, who sent Me, also testifies about Me.”

He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.

“I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.

You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”

Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, as did the prophets. Who do You claim to be?”

“Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”