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 8:42

8:42 Jesus replied, ⁴  “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. ⁵  I ⁶  have not come on my own initiative, ⁷  but he ⁸  sent me.

John 17:26

17:26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, ⁹  so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

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 “Jesus said to them.”

⁵ tn Or “I came from God and have arrived.”

⁶ tn Grk “For I.” Here γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

⁷ tn Grk “from myself.”

⁸ tn Grk “that one” (referring to God).

⁷ tn The translation “will continue to make it known” is proposed by R. E. Brown (John [AB], 2:773).