30 Bible Verses about The Father's Activity Regarding Christ

And we have seen and give witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me.

Do you say of him whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, Your words are evil; because I said, I am God's Son?

I give witness about myself and the Father who sent me gives witness about me.

For I have not said it on my authority, but the Father who sent me gave me orders what to say and how to say it.

Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God.

For God the Father gave him honour and glory, when such a voice came to him out of the great glory, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he will give to every man the reward of his works.

Jesus said these things; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the time has now come; give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to you:

No one takes it away from me; I give it up of myself. I have power to give it up, and I have power to take it again. These orders I have from my Father.

And he will be ruling them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of the potter they will be broken, even as I have power from my Father:

Jesus, being conscious that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,

The Father has love for the Son and has put all things into his hands.

For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder.

All things have been given to me by my Father; and no one has knowledge of the Son, but the Father; and no one has knowledge of the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.

All things have been given to me by my Father: and no one has knowledge of the Son, but only the Father: and of the Father, but only the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.

And I will give you a kingdom as my Father has given one to me,

The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son;

For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.

Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.

This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.

No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.

And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father.

The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.

So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.

Father, if it is your pleasure, take this cup from me: but still, let your pleasure, not mine, be done.

Does it not seem possible to you that if I make request to my Father he will even now send me an army of angels?

So they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I give praise to you for hearing me.

Now is my soul troubled; and what am I to say? Father, keep me from this hour. No: for this purpose have I come to this hour.