“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

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.

just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

When the governor gestured for him to speak, Paul replied, “Because I know that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I confidently make my defense.

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

Jesus answered, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.