John 5:19

19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, tthe Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For uwhatever the Father1 does, that the Son does likewise.

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John 5:30
“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 8:28
So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.

John 5:21
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.

John 5:26
For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.


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ch. 21:5; [Isa. 15:2; Jer. 9:26; 48:37]