John 5:30

5:30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. ¹  Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, ²  because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. ³ 

John 8:28

8:28 Then Jesus said, ⁴  “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, ⁵  and I do nothing on my own initiative, ⁶  but I speak just what the Father taught me. ⁷ 

John 8:42

8:42 Jesus replied, ⁸  “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. ⁹  I ¹⁰  have not come on my own initiative, ¹¹  but he ¹²  sent me.

John 10:18

10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down ¹³  of my own free will. ¹⁴  I have the authority ¹⁵  to lay it down, and I have the authority ¹⁶  to take it back again. This commandment ¹⁷  I received from my Father.”

¹ tn Grk “nothing from myself.”

² tn Or “righteous,” or “proper.”

³ tn That is, “the will of the Father who sent me.”

⁴ tn Grk “Then Jesus said to them” (the words “to them” are not found in all mss).

⁵ tn Grk “that I am.” See the note on this phrase in v. 24.

⁶ tn Grk “I do nothing from myself.”

⁷ tn Grk “but just as the Father taught me, these things I speak.”

⁷ tn Grk “Jesus said to them.”

⁸ tn Or “I came from God and have arrived.”

⁹ tn Grk “For I.” Here γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

¹⁰ tn Grk “from myself.”

¹¹ tn Grk “that one” (referring to God).

¹⁰ tn Or “give it up.”

¹¹ tn Or “of my own accord.” “Of my own free will” is given by BDAG 321 s.v. ἐμαυτοῦ c.

¹² tn Or “I have the right.”

¹³ tn Or “I have the right.”

¹⁴ tn Or “order.”