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John 12:49 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak. "

John 12:49

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47 If anyone listens to my sayings and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

48 He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.

49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak.

50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”

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John 12:1

"Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead."

John 12:2

"So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him."

John 12:3

"Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment."

John 12:4

"Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,"

John 12:5

"“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”"

John 12:6

"Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it."

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