'Own' in the Bible

He came to the things that were His own, and His own people gave Him no welcome.

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" --that is to say, the Anointed One.

I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours."

Then a far larger number of people believed because of His own words,

though Jesus Himself declared that a Prophet has no honour in his own country.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.

For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.

The man whose teaching originates with himself aims at his own glory. He who aims at the glory of Him who sent him teaches the truth, and there is no deception in him.

Jesus therefore, while teaching in the Temple, cried aloud, and said, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come of my own accord; but there is One who has sent me, an Authority indeed, of whom you have no knowledge.

In your own Law, too, it is written that the testimony of two men is true.

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

"Yes it is," replied some of them. "No it is not," said others, "but he is like him." His own statement was, "I am the man."

but how it is that he can now see or who has opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him himself; he is of full age; he himself will give his own account of it."

To him the porter opens the door, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by their names and leads them out.

When he has brought out his own sheep--all of them--he walks at the head of them; and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

The hired servant--one who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep--no sooner sees the wolf coming than he leaves the sheep and runs away; and the wolf worries and scatters them.

Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in what words to speak.

Now just before the Feast of the Passover this incident took place. Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father; and having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on my own authority: but the Father dwelling within me carries on His own work.

Peace I leave with you: my own peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace. Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.

"Remember that the time is coming, nay, has already come, for you all to be dispersed each to his own home and to leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

And now, Father, do Thou glorify me in Thine own presence, with the glory that I had in Thy presence before the world existed.

"Am I a Jew?" exclaimed Pilate; "it is your own nation and the High Priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

and He went out carrying His own cross, to the place called Skull-place--or, in Hebrew, Golgotha--

Then He said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that time the disciple received her into his own home.