28 Bible Verses about The Father's Activity Regarding Christ
Most Relevant Verses
and we have seen, we can testify, that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world.
Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me.
for I have not spoken of my own accord ??the Father who sent me, he it was who ordered me what to say and what to speak.
Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven ??33 for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
Jesus replied, "Were I to glorify myself, my glory would be nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me; you say 'He is our God,'
when he was invested with honour and glory by God the Father, and when the following voice was borne to him from the sublime Glory, "This is my son, the Beloved, in whom I delight."
For the Son of man is coming in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward everyone for what he has done.
So Jesus spoke; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said: "Father, the time has now come; glorify thy Son that thy Son may glorify thee,
No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord: I have power to lay it down and also power to take it up again; I have my Father's orders for this.
the Father had put everything into his hands ??knowing that he had come from God and was going to God,
The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder;
All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows the Son except the Father ??nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
"All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son,
for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself,
All those will come to me who are the Father's gift to me, and never will I reject one of them;
It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."
No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).
that was why he said 'I tell you that no one is able to come to me unless he is allowed by the Father').
In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me.
So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same.
saying, "Father, if it please thee, take this cup away from me. But thy will, not mine, be done."
What! do you think I cannot appeal to my Father to furnish me at this moment with over twelve legions of angels?
Then they removed the boulder, and Jesus, lifting his eyes to heaven, said, "Father, I thank thee for listening to me.
My soul is now disquieted. What am I to say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, it is something else that has brought me to this hour:
