John 5:19
5:19 So Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.
John 5:30
5:30 I can do nothing on my own initiative.
Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just,
because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.
John 6:38
6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
John 11:42
11:42 I knew that you always listen to me,
but I said this
for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
John 12:49-50
12:49 For I have not spoken from my own authority,
but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me
what I should say and what I should speak.
12:50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life.
Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”
Numbers 16:28-30
16:28 Then Moses said, “This is how
you will know that the
Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.
16:29 If these men die a natural death,
or if they share the fate
of all men, then the
Lord has not sent me.
16:30 But if the
Lord does something entirely new,
and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up
along with all that they have, and they
go down alive to the grave,
then you will know that these men have despised the
Lord!”
Hebrews 2:2-3
2:2 For if the message spoken through angels
proved to be so firm that every violation
or disobedience received its just penalty,
2:3 how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,