⁴⁹ I don’t speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it.

⁸ for I have passed on to them the message you gave me. They accepted it and know that I came from you, and they believe you sent me.

¹⁰ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me.

²⁶ I have much to say about you and much to condemn, but I won’t. For I say only what I have heard from the one who sent me, and he is completely truthful.”

³⁰ I can do nothing on my own. I judge as God tells me. Therefore, my judgment is just, because I carry out the will of the one who sent me, not my own will.

³¹ but I will do what the Father requires of me, so that the world will know that I love the Father. Come, let’s be going.

¹⁸ I will raise up a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell the people everything I command him.

¹⁵ I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

⁴² Jesus told them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I have come to you from God. I am not here on my own, but he sent me.

¹¹ I assure you, we tell you what we know and have seen, and yet you won’t believe our testimony.