Quotes About Authority

Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was division among them.

That was why his parents said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”

We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from.”

If this man were not from God, He could do no such thing.”

“Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”

“I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Fatherís name testify on My behalf.

“We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.”

Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ëI have said you are godsí?

If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?

If I am not doing the works of My Father, then do not believe Me.

At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.

Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.

If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.

Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You can see that this is doing you no good. Look how the whole world has gone after Him!”

There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

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

Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.

You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.

Truly, truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.