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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 12:49 Catholic Bible: This is true, because I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has commanded me what I must say and speak. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/john/12-49.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/john/12-49.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/john/12-49.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/john/1.htm">John</a> > <a href="/gntd/john/12.htm">Chapter 12</a> > Verse 49</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/12-48.htm" title="John 12:48">◄</a> John 12:49 <a href="../john/12-50.htm" title="John 12:50">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/john/12.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/john/12.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />This is true, because I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has commanded me what I must say and speak. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/john/12.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/john/12.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I don't speak on my own. I say only what the Father who sent me has told me to say. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/john/12.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />because I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and speak.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/john/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/3-11.htm">John 3:11,32</a> Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we testify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/5-30.htm">John 5:30</a> I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so I judge. And my judgment is just: because I seek not my own will. but the will of him that sent me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/6-38.htm">John 6:38-40</a> Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/8-26.htm">John 8:26,42</a> Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/14-10.htm">John 14:10</a> Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father who abideth in me, he doth the works.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/15-15.htm">John 15:15</a> I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends. because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/17-8.htm">John 17:8</a> Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/18-18.htm">Deuteronomy 18:18</a> I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/1-1.htm">Revelation 1:1</a> The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make known to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass: and signified, sending by his angel to his servant John,</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/john/12.htm">Belief and Unbelief</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">48</span>He that despiseth me and receiveth not my words hath one that judgeth him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. <span class="reftext">49</span><span class="highl">For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak.</span> <span class="reftext">50</span>And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. The things therefore that I speak, even as the Father said unto me, so do I speak.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/18-18.htm">Deuteronomy 18:18</a></span><br />I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/3-11.htm">John 3:11</a></span><br />Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we testify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/5-19.htm">John 5:19</a></span><br />Then Jesus answered and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/6-68.htm">John 6:68</a></span><br />And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/7-16.htm">John 7:16</a></span><br />Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/8-26.htm">John 8:26</a></span><br />Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/8-28.htm">John 8:28</a></span><br />Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up, the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself. But as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/14-10.htm">John 14:10</a></span><br />Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father who abideth in me, he doth the works.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/14-24.htm">John 14:24</a></span><br />He that loveth me not keepeth not my words. And the word which you have heard is not mine; but the Father's who sent me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/14-31.htm">John 14:31</a></span><br />But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the Father hath given me commandments, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/17-8.htm">John 17:8</a></span><br />Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. 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