30 Bible Verses about The Father's Activity Regarding Christ

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me."

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

Then Jesus told them, "I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.

Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, 'He is our God.'

For he received honor and glory from God the Father, when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory: "This is my dear Son, in whom I am delighted."

For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.

When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you --

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father."

he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,

Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority.

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him."

Thus I grant to you a kingdom, just as my Father granted to me,

Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

For this is the will of my Father -- for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

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

So Jesus added, "Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come."

It is written in the prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done."

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

"Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.