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John 12:49-50 KJV
John · chapter 12 · verses 49–50
49For 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. 50And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.John 12:49-50 · King James Version
John 12:49-50 in context
47And 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.
48He 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.
49For 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.
50And 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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Key words (Strong's)
- commandmententolēan order, command, charge, precept, injunction, that which is prescribed to one by reason…G1785 →
- everlastingaiōnioswithout beginning and end, that which always has been and always will be, without…G166 →
- whatsoeverhoswho, which, what, thatG3739 →
- spokenlaleōto utter a voice or emit a sound, to speak, to use the tongue or the faculty of speech…G2980 →
- myselfemautouI, me, myself etcG1683 →
- Fatherpatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
- sentpempōto send, to bid a thing to be carried to one, to send a thing into anotherG3992 →
- gavedidōmito give, to give something to someone, of one s own accord to give one something, to his…G1325 →
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We have here the honour Christ not assumed, but asserted, to himself, in the account he gave of his mission and his errand into the world. Probably this discourse was not at the same time with that before (for them he departed, Joh 12:36), but some time after, when he made another public appearance;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 44-50