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John 12:49 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. "
John 12:49
Verse in Context
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And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
He that rejecteth 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.
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
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John 12:1
"Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead."
John 12:2
"There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him."
John 12:3
"Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment."
John 12:4
"Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,"
John 12:5
"Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?"
John 12:6
"This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein."
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