John 12:49

12:49 For I have not spoken from my own authority, ¹  but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me ²  what I should say and what I should speak.

John 8:55

8:55 Yet ³  you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, ⁴  I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey ⁵  his teaching. ⁶ 

John 12:27

12:27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me ⁷  from this hour’? ⁸  No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour. ⁹ 

[12:49]  ¹ tn Grk “I have not spoken from myself.”

[12:49]  ² tn Grk “has given me commandment.”

[8:55]  ³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Yet” to indicate the contrast present in the context.

[8:55]  ⁴ tn Grk “If I say, ‘I do not know him.’”

[8:55]  ⁵ tn Grk “I keep.”

[8:55]  ⁶ tn Grk “his word.”

[12:27]  ⁵ tn Or “save me.”

[12:27]  ⁶ tn Or “this occasion.”

[12:27]  ⁷ tn Or “this occasion.”