30 Bible Verses about The Father's Activity Regarding Christ
Most Relevant Verses
We have seen and now testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Saviour of the world.
Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever keeps on eating me will live because of me.
do you now say to me whom my Father has set apart to it and sent into the world, 'You are a blasphemer,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
This is because I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who has sent me has given me orders Himself what to say and what to tell.
Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the real bread out of heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the real bread out of heaven,
Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, such glory amounts to nothing. It is the Father who glorifies me; and you claim that He is your God.
For when He received such honor and glory from God the Father, when from the majestic glory there was borne to Him a voice like this, "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I take delight,"
For the Son of Man is going to come in His Father's splendor, with His angels, and then He will pay back to everyone in accordance with what he has done.
When Jesus had said all these things, He lifted His eyes to heaven and said: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that He may glorify you,
No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it as a free gift. I have the right to give it and I have the right to take it back. I have gotten this order from my Father."
he will govern them with a scepter of iron and shatter them like earthen jars -- just such authority as I have received from my Father --
because He was sure that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going back to God,
For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything that He Himself is doing, and He will show Him greater deeds than these, so that you will keep on wondering.
All things have been entrusted to me by my Father, and no one but the Father perfectly knows the Son, and no one but the Son perfectly knows the Father, and the one to whom the Son chooses to make Him known.
All things have been entrusted to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to make Him known."
For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.
All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never, no, never reject anyone who comes to me,
For it is my Father's will that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the last day."
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the last day.
So He continued, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me, unless it is granted to him by my Father."
In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God.' Everyone who ever listens to the Father and learns from Him will come to me.
So Jesus answered them: "I most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, except as He sees the Father doing it, for whatever the Father is in the habit of doing the Son also persists in doing.
"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet, not my will but always yours be done!"
Do you suppose that I am unable to appeal to my Father and have Him furnish me on the spot one hundred thousand angels?
So they slipped the stone aside. And Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you for listening to me;
Now my soul is troubled; what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour of agony! And yet it was for this very purpose that I came to this hour of agony.
