John 5:30
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
KJV
οὐ δύναμαι ἐγὼ ποιεῖν ἀπ’ ἐμαυτοῦ οὐδέν· καθὼς ἀκούω κρίνω, καὶ ἡ κρίσις ἡ ἐμὴ δικαία ἐστίν, ὅτι οὐ ζητῶ τὸ θέλημα τὸ ἐμὸν ἀλλὰ τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πέμψαντός με
Greek NT
Non possum ego a meipso facere quidquam. Sicut audio, judico : et judicium meum justum est, quia non quæro voluntatem meam, sed voluntatem ejus qui misit me.
Vulgate
I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
ASV
I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so I judge. And my judgment is just: because I seek not my own will. but the will of him that sent me.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
21 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- με — SBLGNT
- με — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + πατρός — Robinson-Pierpont
Themes
Historic Christian voices
10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§859Jesus unites them to the mission he received from the Father. As "the Son can do nothing of his own accord," but receives everything from the Father who sent him, so those whom Jesus sends can do nothing apart from him,371 from whom they received both the mandate for their mission and the power to carry it out. Christ's apostles knew that they were called by God as "ministers o…
§2824In Christ, and through his human will, the will of the Father has been perfectly fulfilled once for all. Jesus said on entering into this world: "Lo, I have come to do your will, O God."99 Only Jesus can say: "I always do what is pleasing to him."100 In the prayer of his agony, he consents totally to this will: "not my will, but yours be done."101 For this reason Jesus "gave hi…
1. On the subject of attention in hearkening it is superfluous to exhort you any more, so quickly have you shown by your actions the effects of my advice. For your manner of running together, your attentive postures, the thrusting one another in your eagerness to get the inner places, where my voice may more clearly be heard by you, your unwillingness to retire from the press u…
1. A dreadful thing is the love of glory, dreadful and full of many evils; it is a thorn hard to be extracted, a wild beast untamable and many headed, arming itself against those that feed it; for as the worm eats through the wood from which it is born, as rust wastes the iron whence it comes forth, and moths the fleeces, so vainglory destroys the soul which nourishes it; and t…
1. A fearful thing is sin, fearful, and the ruin of the soul, and the mischief oftentimes through its excess has overflowed and attacked men's bodies also. For since for the most part when the soul is diseased we feel no pain, but if the body receive though but a little hurt, we use every exertion to free it from its infirmity, because we are sensible of the infirmity, therefor…
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 3:9 — Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
- Gal 1:4 — Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
- Gen 18:25 — That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do rig
- Heb 10:7 — Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
- Hos 10:7 — As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
- Isa 11:3 — And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
- Isa 28:6 — And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
- Isa 42:3 — A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
- John 4:34 — Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
- John 4:34 — Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
- John 5:19 — Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son li
- John 6:38 — For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
- John 6:38 — For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
- John 7:16 — Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
- John 8:15 — Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
- 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 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 8:29 — And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
- John 8:38 — I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
- John 8:42 — Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
- John 8:50 — And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
- John 10:18 — No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
- John 10:36 — Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
- John 12:49 — 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.
- John 14:10 — Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
- John 17:4 — I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
- John 18:11 — Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
- Luke 22:42 — Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
- Mark 14:36 — And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
- Matt 26:39 — And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
- Matt 26:39 — And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
- Num 16:28 — And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.
- Ps 40:7 — Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
- Ps 96:13 — Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
- Rom 2:2 — But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
- Rom 2:5 — But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
- Rom 15:3 — For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
- Rom 15:3 — For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.