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 8:28
8:28 Then Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.
John 8:42
8:42 Jesus replied,
“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here.
I
have not come on my own initiative,
but he
sent me.
John 10:18
10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down
of my own free will.
I have the authority
to lay it down, and I have the authority
to take it back again. This commandment
I received from my Father.”