¹⁶ Jesus answered them, “The things I teach are not my own, but they come from him who sent me [^CGod].

²⁸ Jesus, teaching in the Temple [courts; 2:14], cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. But I have not come ·by my own authority [on my own initiative; ^Lfrom myself]. I was sent by the One who is true, whom you don’t know. ²⁹ But I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”