There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

The Testimony of John the Baptist

And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’

For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

I sent you to reap that for which you did not labour. Others have laboured, and you have entered into their labour.”

that all may honour the Son, just as they honour the Father. Whoever does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgement, but has passed from death to life.

Witnesses to Jesus

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgement is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.

But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.

And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.

I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”