John 7:16
New International Version
Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.

New Living Translation
So Jesus told them, “My message is not my own; it comes from God who sent me.

English Standard Version
So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

Berean Standard Bible
“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.

Berean Literal Bible
Therefore Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not of Myself, but of the One having sent Me.

King James Bible
Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

New King James Version
Jesus answered them and said, “My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

New American Standard Bible
So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not My own, but His who sent Me.

NASB 1995
So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

NASB 1977
Jesus therefore answered them, and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but from Him who sent Me.

Amplified Bible
Jesus answered them by saying, “My teaching is not My own, but His who sent Me.

Christian Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t mine but is from the one who sent me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t Mine but is from the One who sent Me.

American Standard Version
Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yeshua answered and said: “My teaching is not Mine, but from him who sent Me.”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus replied: I am not teaching something I thought up. What I teach comes from the one who sent me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus answered them, and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

English Revised Version
Jesus therefore answered them, and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus responded to them, "What I teach doesn't come from me but from the one who sent me.

Good News Translation
Jesus answered, "What I teach is not my own teaching, but it comes from God, who sent me.

International Standard Version
Jesus replied to them, "My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.

Literal Standard Version
Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me;

Majority Standard Bible
“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.

New American Bible
Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not my own but is from the one who sent me.

NET Bible
So Jesus replied, "My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine but his who sent me.

New Heart English Bible
Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

Weymouth New Testament
Jesus answered their question by saying, "My teaching does not belong to me, but comes from Him who sent me.

World English Bible
Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

Young's Literal Translation
Jesus answered them and said, 'My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;

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Context
Jesus Teaches at the Feast
15The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?” 16“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me. 17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.…

Cross References
John 3:11
Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.

John 12:49
I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.

John 14:24
Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.

2 John 1:9
Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.


Treasury of Scripture

Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

My.

John 3:11,31
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness…

John 8:28
Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

John 12:49,50
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak…

but.

John 5:23,24,30
That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him…

John 6:38-40,44
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me…

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John 7
1. Jesus reproves the ambition and boldness of his kinsmen;
10. goes up from Galilee to the feast of tabernacles;
14. teaches in the temple.
40. Various opinions of him among the people.
45. The Pharisees are angry that their officers took him not,
50. and chide with Nicodemus for taking his side.














(16) My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.--The answer carries them once more to the words uttered by Him. (Comp. John 5:19; John 5:30.) Then he had again and again referred to the Father who sent Him (John 7:24; John 7:36-38), and claimed as His own work the doing of the Father's will (John 7:30). In the Capernaum synagogue, in the hearing of some of these Jews, He had declared that all who were taught of God, and heard and learned the lesson, would come to Him (John 6:45). There is, then, no ground for their present wonder. The teaching which is His in relation to them, is not His of original source. He claims to be in His humanity as a messenger, carrying the message of Him that sent Him. He is the Word by whom the mind of God is spoken. . . . Verse 16. - Jesus therefore answered them and said, etc. He met this particular allegation as follows: My teaching is not mine. The "my" refers to the teaching itself, the "mine" to the ultimate authority on which it rests. I am not a self-taught Man, as though out of the depths of my own independent human consciousness I span it. I do not mean you to suppose that my mere human experience is the sole source of my instructions (ch. 5:31). If you have sat at the feet of those who taught you, I, too, am a Representative of another; but (the ἀλλά after οὐκ is not equivalent to tam...quam. It introduces here the absolute source of all his teaching) it is the teaching of him who sent me. I have not learned in your schools, but am uttering the thoughts that come from an infinitely deeper source. "He who sent me" gave them to me. I have been in intimate communion with HIM. All that I say is Divine thought. I have drawn it all from the Lord of all. I came from him, and represent to you the will of God. This is a lofty prophetic claim, more urgent, more complete, than that made by Moses or Isaiah. Special messages, oracles, and burdens were delivered by the prophets with a "Thus saith the Lord." But Jesus says his thoughts are God's thoughts, his ways God's ways, his teachings not his own, but altogether those of him who sent him.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
“My
Ἐμὴ (Emē)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Feminine 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1699: My, mine. From the oblique cases of ego; my.

teaching
διδαχὴ (didachē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1322: Teaching, doctrine, what is taught. From didasko; instruction.

is
ἔστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

not
οὐκ (ouk)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

My own,”
ἐμὴ (emē)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Feminine 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1699: My, mine. From the oblique cases of ego; my.

Jesus
Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

replied.
Ἀπεκρίθη (Apekrithē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.

“[It comes]
ἀλλὰ (alla)
Conjunction
Strong's 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.

from Him who
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

sent
πέμψαντός (pempsantos)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3992: To send, transmit, permit to go, put forth.

Me.
με (me)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.


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