'Father' in the Bible

The Word became fleshand took up residence among us.We observed His glory,the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father,full of grace and truth.

The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hands.

You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are You? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

Jesus told her, “Believe Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him.

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.”

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He is doing, and He will show Him greater works than these so that you will be amazed.

And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

The Father, in fact, judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son,

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

“But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

The Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have not heard His voice at any time, and you haven’t seen His form.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Moses didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the real bread from heaven.

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.

For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

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

It is written in the Prophets: And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me—

not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God. He has seen the Father.

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”

And if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me judge together.

I am the One who testifies about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”

Then they asked Him, “Where is Your Father?”“You know neither Me nor My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would also know My Father.”

They did not know He was speaking to them about the Father.

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father; therefore, you do what you have heard from your father.”

“Our father is Abraham!” they replied.“If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.

You’re doing what your father does.”“We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father—God.”

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

“I do not have a demon,” Jesus answered. “On the contrary, I honor My Father and you dishonor Me.

Are You greater than our father Abraham who died? Even the prophets died. Who do You pretend to be?”

“If I glorify Myself,” Jesus answered, “My glory is nothing. My Father—you say about Him, ‘He is our God’—He is the One who glorifies Me.

Your father Abraham was overjoyed that he would see My day; he saw it and rejoiced.”

as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep.

This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from My Father.”

My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

The Father and I are one.”

Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. Which of these works are you stoning Me for?”

do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

But if I am doing them and you don’t believe Me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You heard Me.

If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. Where I am, there My servant also will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

“Now My soul is troubled. What should I say—Father, save Me from this hour? But that is why I came to this hour.

Father, glorify Your name!”Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!”

For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a command as to what I should say and what I should speak.

I know that His command is eternal life. So the things that I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into His hands, that He had come from God, and that He was going back to God.

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

“If you know Me, you will also know My Father. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

“Lord,” said Philip, “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”

Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time without your knowing Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on My own. The Father who lives in Me does His works.

Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. Otherwise, believe because of the works themselves.

“I assure you: The one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.

Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever.

In that day you will know that I am in My Father, you are in Me, and I am in you.

The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

The one who doesn’t love Me will not keep My words. The word that you hear is not Mine but is from the Father who sent Me.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit—the Father will send Him in My name—will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.

You have heard Me tell you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

On the contrary, I am going away so that the world may know that I love the Father. Just as the Father commanded Me, so I do.“Get up; let’s leave this place.

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vineyard keeper.

My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples.

“As the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you. Remain in My love.

I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

The one who hates Me also hates My Father.

If I had not done the works among them that no one else has done, they would not have sin. Now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

“When the Counselor comes, the One I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.

They will do these things because they haven’t known the Father or Me.

about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

Everything the Father has is Mine. This is why I told you that He takes from what is Mine and will declare it to you.

Therefore some of His disciples said to one another, “What is this He tells us: ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”

In that day you will not ask Me anything.“I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

In that day you will ask in My name. I am not telling you that I will make requests to the Father on your behalf.

For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.

I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

Look: An hour is coming, and has come, when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said:Father,the hour has come.Glorify Your Sonso that the Son may glorify You,

Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presencewith that glory I had with Youbefore the world existed.

I am no longer in the world,but they are in the world,and I am coming to You.Holy Father,protect them by Your namethat You have given Me,so that they may be one as We are one.

May they all be one,as You, Father, are in Me and I am in You.May they also be one in Us,so the world may believe You sent Me.

Father,I desire those You have given Meto be with Me where I am.Then they will see My glory,which You have given Mebecause You loved Me before the world’s foundation.

Righteous Father!The world has not known You.However, I have known You,and these have known that You sent Me.

At that, Jesus said to Peter, “Sheathe your sword! Am I not to drink the cup the Father has given Me?”

First they led Him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

“Don’t cling to Me,” Jesus told her, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God.”